Buffy Sainte Marie: Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit strippeddown sets, an intimate setting just a different space. Ann Powers, May 12, 2022 Tiny Desk at home I kinda live on the road the legendary Buffy SainteMarie exclaims one song into her highspirited set recorded a few miles outside Toronto at the beginning of the 81yearold s umpteenth tour. SainteMarie has always been a wandering soul with a fierce sense of direction. The four songs she performs here with her touring band span her nearly 60year career, connecting her righteous protest songs including Universal Soldier, as relevant today as it was when it became an anthem during the Vietnam War to the love songs that have soundtracked countless slow dances. This set is a kind of SainteMarie primer, touching on her early days as the 1960s folk