I Want To Live In A Wigwam - Cat Stevens (1971)

"I Want To Live In A Wigwam" was the b-side to "Morning Has Broken", the hit single from Cat Stevens' fifth studio album, Teaser and the Firecat, which was released in October 1971. This song wasn't actually released on the album and was only included as the b-side. It wasn't released on any album until it was included on Footsteps in the Dark: Greatest Hits Vol. 2 in 1984. I didn't want to use that album in the video details because it seemed it needed to be associated with Teaser...so, here it is.

I didn't really have anything else finished this weekend and was going to skip until later, but it's rainy outside and though I didn't feel like working on any of my other videos, I smashed this one together very quickly and though the vid effort isn't anything special, I've always loved this song and thought it looked a'right?! ;-) Hope everyone has a good one. Thanks for watching!

Information below from: https://albumreviews.blog/2019/10/13/i-want-to-live-in-a-wigwam-by-cat-stevens-great-b-sides/
Cat Stevens‘ work has endured because his low-key songs are relatable and accessible. Stevens has explored different styles over the course of his career – he started as a teen pop idol in the 1960s, and moved towards progressive rock with 1970s albums like Foreigner

But Stevens is most widely cherished for his pair of early 1970s singer-songwriter albums; Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat. Most of Stevens’ best-loved songs are clustered on these two records, and both play better than his Greatest Hits.

The songs flowed for Stevens during this time – his first singer-songwriter album, Mona Bone Jakon, was released in April 1970, Tillerman in November 1970, while the last sessions for Teaser and the Firecat were recorded in March 1971.

‘I Want to Live in a Wigwam’ was the b-side for ‘Morning Has Broken’, from Teaser and the Firecat. It was possibly left off of Teaser and the Firecat because of its similarity in tone to ‘Moonshadow’ – a wistful, child-like ditty, yearning for simplicity. Its of the same vein as Stevens’ better known songs from the early 1970s – a tasteful folk-rock arrangement, coupled with a spiritual quest for deeper meaning.

Despite its initial relegation to b-side status, ‘I Want to Live in a Wigwam’ was later included in the 1984 compilation Footsteps in the Dark – Greatest Hits Vol. 2. It was nestled among hits like ‘Father and Son’ and ‘Where Do The Childen Play?’, and rarities like Stevens’ songs from the Harold and Maude soundtrack.

‘I Want to Live in a Wigwam’ was also included by NZ actor and musician Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) playing favourites on a Radio New Zealand show. Clement also selected songs by Oneohtrix Point Never, Kate Bush, and The Front Lawn.

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