Thursday, February 11, 2010

The Original Buffy

In between watching every episode of Saturday Night Live from the 1979–80 season (we rented the DVD box set) and hiding in my bed from mean old February, I find myself listening to a lot of folky women with crazy voices lately — Karen Dalton, Sybille Baier, Joni Mitchell, Vashti Bunyan, Joanna Newsom, ... I think I feel a mix tape brewing. Anyway, I just "discovered" this one today — "Vampire," from Buffy Sainte-Marie's Illuminations album of 1969. I guess I never realized how awesomely freaky and psychedelic she was. I'll have to check out more of her catalogue.

She may not fare as well against the titular baddy, but I'll take this Buffy over Sarah Michelle Gellar's any day.

2 comments:

St. Louis Family said...

Yikes! That was spooky!

Pen & Rix Place said...

And there's always Codyne.
'course, that may also help explain the voice.