BUFFETT, JIMMY

Personnel: Jimmy Buffett (vocals, acoustic guitar); Michael Jeffry (guitar, background vocals); Roger Bartlett (guitar); Billy Puett (flute, recorder); Fingers Taylor (harmonica); Michael Utley (piano, organ); Harry Dailey (bass, background vocals); Kenneth "Barfullo" Buttrey (drums, congas); Ferrell Morris (percussion); David Bryant (background vocals).



Recorded at Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida and Quadraphonic Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee in November 1976.

From its immortal opening line--"I took off for a weekend last month just to try and recall the whole year"--to "Landfall," the hard-rocking sailing ode that closes it, this is the Jimmy Buffett album that most definitively sums up his Pirate Of The Caribbean beach bum stoner pose. The classic here, of course, is "Margaritaville," which, despite its ubiquity as a party anthem, is nonetheless one of the best written and most perceptively observed story songs this side of Ray Davies; if you can't recognize at least a part of yourself in it, you probably should check your pulse.

Nothing else on the album is quite this sublime, but there isn't a song that doesn't work on some level. The overall atmosphere here is palpable; you can practically smell the tequila and salt air.

Estimated despatch 5-10 days after ordering.