Buffy, Sandi and Patrick

Buffy Sainte-Marie has been around for a while and been working with and influencing people since the '60s (including Kanye West who sampled 'Lazarus'). It's good to see she's still doing it today, specifically in new albums released by Sandi Thom and Patrick Wolf.

Sandi asked Buffy to sing with her on 'The Big Ones Get Away', one of Buffy's songs from the early '90s and  favourite of Sandi. It's nice to hear a new version of the song which, as you'd expect, sounds quite different to the original and two voices gives it a slightly different emphasis. It has an acoustic feel as instruments gradually appear and Buffy starts to sing.

Buffy met Patrick Wolf in Barcelona earlier this year and co-wrote a new version of one of his songs. On his website he says:

I would like to thank Buffy St Marie who co-wrote the new version of Hard Times with me. This is the only cowrite on the album, we met in Barcelona during the recording session and after some amazing discussions about war, peace and revolution she channelled a new message and edition of the song for me. 

That's nice. I look forward to hearing it.

Sandi's new album, 'Flesh and Blood' is already out and Patrick's album, 'Sundark and Riverlight' will be released on 15 October.