![]() Bravo.His first few albums might not have created ripples, but the 1977 release, “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes”, which featured “Margaritaville”, changed everything. With Mac McAnally as his cowriter, Buffett embraces the beyond with “cats having nine lives and eons to play,” “cosmic clocks” ticking and tock-ing and the need to “grab one last cheap thrill… Sing karaoke and sip some rosé” before it’s all gone. “Live, Like It’s Your Last Day” (2020)īy the time of “Life on the Flip Side,” his 30th studio album, Buffett had not given up the ghost of poetically-driven good times and silly, spaced-out rumination. A curiosity indeed, but worth noting for Buffett’s desire for diverse collaboration so late in the game. So, along with the aforementioned Glenn Frey co-write, the latter-day Buffett hooked up with R&B vocalist and composer Bill Withers for this decidedly politically-incorrect track touched by an upbeat Cujunto arrangement and plucky rhythms. After it bombed, famously, in 1997 during its Miami preview run, Buffett turned the show into an album in 1998, and brought his heightened reality-driven lyrics to new heights on brash tracks such as “A Thousand Steps to Nowhere.” If this vividly picturesque track of Buffett’s is any indication, Broadway producers should look to a revival, pronto.Īdvertisement “Simply Complicated” (2004)įor a friendly guy, Buffett was often an island unto himself when it came to celebrity playmates. Writing a Broadway-style musical should have been a no-brainer for Buffett, especially as he based 1994′s “Don’t Stop the Carnival” on battle novelist Herman Wouk’s 1965 book of the same name, and hired Wouk to write its book. Humorous in the vein of “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” Buffett gave his “Gypsies” a soulful rocking edge, a lively tonic to his usual chill tunesmithing. ![]() ![]() Written with in-demand ‘80s songwriter Will Jennings and the Eagles’ Glenn Frey (who lends his vocals to the track as well), Buffett tells the story of two sneaky self-made entrepreneurs (one named “Snake”) who make a beer-bonging mess of a rock star’s home while he is on the road, only to find that they left it in better shape than he did when he gets home. “One Particular Harbour” (1983)Ĭo-produced by Buffett (a first) and co-penned by Bobby Holcomb, “One Particular Harbour” takes the singer-author’s island tropes and ticks to another, more energetic and anthemic level - something decidedly un-laid back. It works so well, you wish that Buffett would have tried naked sincerity more often. While 1979′s “Volcano” album seemed to stretch at the seams of his boozy, woozy, self-defined screwup persona, “Survive” - co-written by Buffett and longtime Coral Reefer Mike Utley - is an emotional ballad that touches on his usual topics (smoking, joking, long distance love, maddening crowds) with his usual humor, but adds one more poignant element to the mix: earnestness. Taken from his “A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean” (a goofy, shrimpy riff on Marty Robbins’ “Pink Carnation”) album and recorded at Tompall Glaser’s studio in Nashville, Buffett pushes the talents of his Coral Reefer Band’s Greg “Fingers” Taylor and Michael Utley’s yawning pedal steel predilections, writing poetically of the struggles of a man settling for a life where “some of it’s magic, and some of it’s tragic.” But, together with songs such as “Truckstop Salvation” and “Captain America,” Buffett’s feel for Nashvillian melody was in full flower on “A Mile High in Denver.” Soon to be his signature, Buffett’s “Mile High” presents his take on restless character-driven lyrics and funny twists on familiar tropes that pair warm stoner soliloquies with his vision of a Colorado mountain range’s naked trees topped by frost. Buffett’s first album on Andy Williams’ Barnaby Records label may not have been his favorite recording, or one that sold very many copies upon initial release.
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