Track Listing 1. Great Filling Station Holdup, The 2. Railroad Lady 3. He Went to Paris 4. Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit 5. Cuban Crime of Passion 6. Why Don't We Get Drunk 7. Peanut Butter Conspiracy 8. They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More 9. I Have Found Me a Home 10. My Lovely Lady 11. Death of an Unpopular Poet
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Steve Goodman, Vassar Clements | | Producer: | Don Gant | | Distributor: | n/a | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes Personnel: Jimmy Buffett (vocals, acoustic guitar); Steve Goodman (acoustic guitar); Reggie Young (electric guitar); Doyle Gresham (steel guitar); Vassar Clements (fiddle); Greg "Fingers" Taylor (harmonica); Mike Utley (piano); Shane Keester (Moog synthesizer); Ed "Lump" Williams (bass); Sammy Creason (drums); Ferrell Morris, Marvin Gardens (percussion); Don Gant, Buzz Cason, Carol Montgomery, Diane Harris (background vocals). Recorded at Glaser Sound, Nashville, Tennessee. Also available with LIVING AND DYING IN 3/4 TIME on 1 cassette. Personnel: Jimmy Buffett (vocals, acoustic guitar); Steve Goodman (acoustic guitar); Reggie Young (electric guitar); Doyle Gresham (pedal steel guitar); Vassar Clements (fiddle); Greg "Fingers" Taylor (harmonica); Mike Utley (piano); Shane Keester (Moog synthesizer); Ed "Lump" Williams (bass); Sammy Creason (drums); Marvin Gardens (maracas); Ferrell Morris (percussion); Don Gant, Buzz Cason, Carol Montgomery, Diane Harris (background vocals). Recorded at Glaser Sound, Nashville, Tennessee. Includes liner notes by Tom McGuane. Ultradiscs are mastered from the original master tapes using Mobile Fidelity's proprietary mastering technique, then plated with 24 karat gold and housed in a stress-resistant lift-lock jewel box. Jimmy Buffett's major label debut (the title takes off from a sappy piece of late '50s teen pop by country singer Marty Robbins) is a bit more folky and laid back than you might expect. There are hints of the rowdier Buffett persona to come, but by and large this is early '70s mellow singer-songwriter stuff, albeit with cleverer than usual lyrics. Highlights include "Death of an Unpopular Poet," a delicately arranged story song about a poet whose posthumous success leads, literally, to the dogs; "They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More," a nostalgic remembrance of '40s big-fruit wearer Carmen Miranda; and "My Lovely Lady," an enthusiastic paean to a woman who "can eat her own weight in crabmeat." There's also the immortal "Why Don't We Get Drunk," a song whose next line--"and screw"--raised eyebrows in 1973, although post-Eminem it's less likely to do so.
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