Little Wheel Spin and Spin was the third album by Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC is a Canadian Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire includes...

, released in 1966. Although it became her only album to (albeit briefly) reach the Billboard Top 100, it failed to provide any notable standards covered

Cover version

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 by pop artists. Its most famous song is the epic "My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying", which displayed a native

Native Americans in the United States

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 perspective on the colonisation of North America.

In contrast to her first two albums which were entirely acoustic with occasional use of her distinctive mouthbow

Musical bow

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, parts of Little Wheel Spin and Spin added electric guitar

Electric guitar

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 by Bruce Langhorne

Bruce Langhorne

Bruce Langhorne is an American folk musician. He was active in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960s, primarily as a session guitarist for folk albums and performances...

, string arrangements by Felix Pappalardi

Felix Pappalardi

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 or feature fellow Native American performer Patrick Sky

Patrick Sky

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 on guitar with Sainte-Marie. This served to pave the way for Sainte-Marie's stylistic experiments on her remaining Vanguard albums, where she covered territory ranging from country to rock to experimental music.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Buffy Sainte-Marie; except where indicated

1. "Little Wheel Spin and Spin" - 2:29
2. "House Carpenter" - 3:46
3. "Waly Waly" (Traditional) - 3:50
4. "Rolling Log Blues" - 3:32
5. "My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying" - 6:48
6. "Men of the Fields" - 2:02
7. "Timeless Love" - 2:46
8. "Sir Patrick Spens
   Sir Patrick Spens
   "Sir Patrick Spens" is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads , and is of Scottish origin.-Historicity:The events of the ballad are similar to, and may chronicle, an actual event: the bringing home of the Scottish queen Margaret, Maid of Norway across the North Sea in 1290...
   
   " (Traditional) - 5:14
9. "Poor Man's Daughter" - 2:57
10. "Lady Margaret" (Traditional) - 1:43
11. "Sometimes When I Get to Thinking" - 3:37
12. "Winter Boy" - 2:11

Charts

Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Peak position
1966	Pop Albums	97