You can now download the sensational single “The Big Ones Get Away” by Sandi Thom feat. Buffy Sainte-Marie worldwide from iTunes.
Taken from her 4th record “Flesh and Blood” the track was originally recorded by Sainte-Marie, a song which inspired Sandi as a child to become a musician. Here is what she has to say about the recording experience and the reason she chose this specific song to record:
I have very few female idols: Stevie Nicks, Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Susie Quattro and Buffy Sainte Marie. (And my mother off course!)
So to be given the opportunity to record with one of them is so surreal and so mind blowing I can’t even begin to describe the feeling. All I can say is it was one of the most defining moments of my life to record this song with Buffy, she is a mountain, a mighty force of a woman and she stands for everything that is good and proper in this world as does this song. I first heard Big Ones Get Away when I was 6 years old and it is the reason I am a musician. It gave a shy little girl hope that one day she could have a voice, and it would be through song.
