Every major recording artist seems to have some juvenilia in the catalog that has gotten away somehow and gets repackaged endlessly, ripping off fans and making life hard...
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You have to admire his chutzpah. And you have to marvel at the kind of audience that wants--no, demands--its music be this laid-back, this good-timey, this corny, this...
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It's easy to compare any singer to their best work, though not always very helpful. In fact, comparing Far Side of the World to A-1-A or A White Sport Coat and a Pink...
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Meet Me in Margaritaville: The Ultimate Collection really should deliver on the promise of the title, considering that it has 38 songs over the course of two discs....
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Early in the 2000s, Jimmy Buffett experienced one of his periodic revivals thanks to the legions of contemporary country singers indebted to his sunny, relaxed party music....
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Having gotten back the record-making habit with Fruitcakes, Jimmy Buffett repaired to the Monroe County Library in Key West during the winter of 1994-95 with cohorts Russ...
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Herman Wouk's novel Don't Stop the Carnival -- a tale of a frustrated middle-aged man who dreams of escaping the city for tropical paradise -- is the ideal literary vehicle...
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Yes, that smiling youth with a non-receding hairline pictured on the back cover is actually Jimmy Buffett, back in 1970 when this was a new album on a label that's long...
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Jimmy Buffett's second album for the now-defunct Barnaby label came out in 1976, but didn't see a compact disc reissue until 22 years later. It was worth the wait, as it...
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Let's face it: when you've got a career that's largely based around your persona rather than your singing talents, you'd be a moron not to record a Christmas album. Buffett...
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Largely comprised of original material, Jimmy Buffet's Christmas Island is a holiday album that also features rearrangements of classic carols. Buffet is relaxed and...
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Every major recording artist seems to have some juvenilia in the catalog that has gotten away somehow and gets repackaged endlessly, ripping off fans and making life hard...
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Although Jimmy Buffet has never enjoyed tremendous record sales throughout his career his concerts are always guaranteed sellouts. Buffett's rabidly loyal, often drunken,...
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Buffett's first album for Dunhill seemed like typical singer-songwriter fare at the time--except few songwriters were penning songs that asked "Why don't we get drunk and...
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While it still lies much closer to Nashville than Key West (like in the boisterous slide guitar solo that lights up "The Great Filling Station Holdup"), Jimmy Buffett's A...
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MCA repackaged two overlooked Jimmy Buffett albums, A-1-A and Volcano, as a single-cassette release in the early '80s. It's not necessarily a bad way to purchase the albums,...
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Long before Nick Lowe would arrive with his ultrahip "Music For Money," there sat Florida's own Jimmy Buffett, singing "Makin' Music For Money" and Everly Brothers covers...
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Before Jimmy Buffett became a novelist, entrepreneur, and founder of a business empire, he was a prolific singer/songwriter and a great storyteller. In the song "Migration,"...
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Not quite in the same league as his later material, this compilation CD--which pairs Buffett's first two albums, Down To Earth and High Cumberland Jubilee--is in some ways a...
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Yet another reissue of Buffett's first two Barnaby albums, this time released on his own record label, on one CD, and minus the controversial "The Christian?" ~ William...
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Most listeners will be satisfied with the excellent Jimmy Buffett summary Songs You Know By Heart, but anyone that wants to dig deeper should bypass the albums (there are...
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Jimmy Buffett was already on the second edition of his Coral Reefer Band by the time his third album rolled around. He had also firmly established his Gulf Coast...
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The follow-up to Buffett's gold-certified Volcano, this represents the beginning of his middling sales period; peaking at No. 30, it charted higher than any other album...
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By 1990s Feeding Frenzy, Jimmy Buffett enjoyed a nationwide following of "Parrotheads," fanatics who ate up his easygoing Caribbean pirate music and washed it down with the...
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Fruitcakes 5/24/1994, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
Buffett faces the '90s: Funny song titles ("Everybody's Got A Cousin In Miami") and unfunny song covers (the Grateful Dead's "Uncle John's Band")....
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The best thing about Jimmy Buffett's Fruitcakes is the perpetually over-served Key Wester's Howard Beale impersonation on the album's title track. Like many of us, Buffett...
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If there are certain songs that were instrumental in the creation of the Jimmy Buffett "image," consider one of this album's songs as a prime contender: "My Head Hurts, My...
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Buffett's best overall collection of songs yet bears the influence of Steve Goodman, who wrote "This Hotel Room" and cowrote "Woman Goin' Crazy on Caroline Street." But a...
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Jimmy Buffett scored big with this 1985 effort, landing three singles on the country charts. "If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me," "Gypsies in the Palace," and "Please...
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For many listeners, Jimmy Buffett's late-'70s work left something to be desired. The head parrot had gone domestic and albums like Somewhere Over China and Coconut Telegraph...
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Combining aloof humor with a laid-back, devil-may-care island attitude, Jimmy Buffett sang songs about alcohol consumption, lazing around in the sun, and the freedom of not...
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Buffett, who never cared for country music, hires Nashville insider Jimmy Bowen as his producer, goes to Fan Fair, puts on a cowboy hat on his album cover, and scores...
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Perhaps inevitably, Buffett begins to descend from self-satisfaction to self-pity on tracks like "Where's The Party" and "I Heard I Was In Town." Here and on such tracks as...
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MCA repackaged two of Jimmy Buffett's most popular albums, Son of a Son of a Sailor and Coconut Telegraph, as a single-cassette release in the early '80s. It's not...
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Having gotten the appropriate drink prepared in his hit "Margaritaville," Buffett chose this album to unveil his "Cheeseburger In Paradise." Surely a concept ahead of its...
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If this album was a slight step down from its predecessor, it was almost equally successful commercially, and it contained its share of terrific material, notably the...
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Combining aloof humor with a laid-back, devil-may-care island attitude, Jimmy Buffett sang songs about alcohol consumption, lazing around in the sun, and the freedom of not...
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After breaking into the mainstream with his hit "Margaritaville" two years earlier, Jimmy Buffett stuck to his formula of mixing fun, up-tempo songs with slower, reflective...
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Jimmy Buffett's first live set established the treasure chest of gags and grooves that would make the singer impossibly successful over the next 20-plus years. As an...
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To his legion of "Parrothead" fans, Jimmy Buffett represents the embodiment of tropical idyll. People in such unlikely climates as Columbus or Fargo can grab a bit...
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After 30 albums, it would seem as if Jimmy Buffett has said everything he's needed to say, and in a way, that's true. Every once in a while, he'll depart from his...
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Buffett's biggest-selling regular release contains his biggest hit single, "Margaritaville." It's also a peak in terms of songwriting, both for the artist himself and in his...
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