Word: daydreamin
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...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...
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...