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...bars suited him perfectly: "I could go out at night and come home with a hell of a story." From the sandy Key West beaches sprang a string of albums during the next few years. Among them: AI A, named for the access road near his home, Havana Daydreamin' and the waggishly titled A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Caribbean Country Boy | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...latest record, "Havana Daydreamin'," is just a shade hokey. The title song sounds mellow and all that until the chorus gets repeated once too many times--then it begins to call to mind Dean Martin, among others. Maybe it's that Jimmy Buffett is settling down--he's been in love for two years now with a woman named variously "Miss Jane," J. Slagsvol, and Jane--he co-wrote two songs on the album with her. He's beginning to complain about playing country music, as in "Kick It in Second Wind," when it's one o'clock...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Bashed and Buffetted | 3/25/1976 | See Source »

There's always consolation, though. The feeling comes through that the day he finished the song, "Havana Daydreamin," the ABC-Dunhill people told him it was going to be the next AM hit; so he went out and got real drunk and the next day wrote "My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, and I Don't Love Jesus," the hangover song of all time. And, too, there are the sloshed and sleazy Buffett songs that sum it-up, like "Brand New Country Star" off the "3/4 Time" album: Well, he outgrew his sequinned suit, sold his Trailways...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Bashed and Buffetted | 3/25/1976 | See Source »

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