Monday, August 31, 2020

Big Bowl Buffett Buffet

1970
Jimmy Buffett didn't exactly hit the ground snoozing. He had to work at that Key West yacht bum thing. His first couple of albums see him trying to relax, but feeling guilty about it. There's some earnest folky social comment, a few thinly-veiled drug references (them was the days, right?), and, most strangely of all, some left-over psychedelic-type touches, phasing, modal jamming, that type thing.
This is Buffet on the outskirts of Margaritaville, looking in.

Recorded '71, released '76, cover 2020
I've done a new cover for High Cumberland Jubilee, because the old one was a shit hack job pasted together when Herb Alpert finally decided to release it five furshlugginer years after it was recorded. If you already have the album you can dress it up nice now. Click image for bigly.
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23 comments:

  1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 31, 2020 at 11:59 AM

    Okay, to qualify for this double helping at the Buffett Buffet, simply state your favorite Dylan album. One only.

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  2. Phillip SigneyAugust 31, 2020 at 12:08 PM

    Highway 61 revisited

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 31, 2020 at 12:12 PM

      BA-DING!!!!!! Swell choice. I'm sure there'll be others equally swell, but if anyone says Blood On The Tracks someone better hold my coat for me.

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  3. LopezAugust 31, 2020 at 6:18 PM

    I was going to say Blood on the Tracks, but I'm a 98-lb weakling who's terrified at the sight of blood, particularly my own (ba-da-bing), so I'll say John Wesley Hardin.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 31, 2020 at 6:34 PM

      Might I be so presumptuous as to commiserate you on your sacristy? Youse is settin' a swell standard by which th' Four of Five Guys© would be behooved to follow.

      Today's special - pigs' feet in brine.

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  4. pmacAugust 31, 2020 at 6:56 PM

    Planet Waves, because its the album that sounds completely unlike anything else that he did.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 31, 2020 at 7:12 PM

      Great album. Playing it RIGHT NOW.

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    2. pmacAugust 31, 2020 at 7:19 PM

      It sounds like a Band album on which they let Dylan handle the vocals. Rumor has it that there recordings of almost all of the songs on which Danko or Helm sing lead. I've never found it despite years of searching.

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  5. OGAugust 31, 2020 at 7:27 PM

    free wheelin'

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  6. MarkAugust 31, 2020 at 7:28 PM

    New Morning

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  7. Hazy DaveAugust 31, 2020 at 8:07 PM

    I think Nashville Skyline was probably his shortest album, so it's got that going for it, in addition to some swell tunes, professional musicianship, and what seemed like a valid attempt to develop an appealing variation on his regular singing voice.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIISeptember 1, 2020 at 6:35 AM

      This, based on number of plays, is my favorite too. I wouldn't say it's his "best" in critical terms - that's a trickier question - but I like it more than the others. His "best" is probably Freewheelin'.

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  8. One Buck GuyAugust 31, 2020 at 10:50 PM

    Bringing It All Back Home, y'all.

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  9. bumppaAugust 31, 2020 at 11:06 PM

    Gotta go wit " Bob Dylan" - 1962. Maybe not the best, but for me the most impactful. I'm 13, inundated at home with Dixieland Jazz (Trad - today) and looking to break away from The Four Seasons, The Shirelles and others. Attending hootnannys (or maybe it is hootnannies - whatever)and the folky boom is happening.
    So along comes my jazz lovin' dad with an article on this new folk singer. Out the door, hitchhiked to Sam Goody's and bought the stereo version. My father was an EE and we had the best sound system in town.
    I played it for all my friends and we were hooked. Still have the vinyl beat up cover and all.
    A life changing disc.

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  10. HermannAugust 31, 2020 at 11:26 PM

    just one song
    https://mega.nz/file/mdtXwDJR#KVmpG9JKDXnX5heUfRKTWySUzxLieG08JS_dwGy9ZsE

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  11. UncleBSeptember 1, 2020 at 3:34 AM

    "Sebastian Cabot, Actor; Bob Dylan, Poet: A Dramatic Reading With Music" (M~G~M, 1966)(The Last Good Year.... For Musick, TeeVee, Fillum...?)

    Wait!!! "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"?

    I forgot "Dylan Hears a Who" ! ! ! (1966 too!)(Or "1966"...)

    https://www70.zippyshare.com/v/OVwqZpwp/file.html
    -OR-
    https://yadi.sk/d/_hLvWQm80FYHZw

    CWCD: pj

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  12. rickSeptember 1, 2020 at 4:12 AM

    just a heads up this early Jimmy Buffet can be seen playing in a bar in the Jeff Bridges/Sam Waterson movie ''Rancho Deluxe'' great film/my favorite dylan? Mouse and the Trap's lp with A Public Execution, one those times an imitator out does the original to my ears

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  13. Farquhar Throckmorton IIISeptember 1, 2020 at 6:32 AM

    Linquage du jour:

    https://workupload.com/file/J7gBTcRyhA9

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  14. Clarence PuneSeptember 1, 2020 at 7:02 AM

    Trivia: Without googling, on what Buffett song did Roy Orbison appear?
    As for Dylan I too would say Bringing It All Back Home.

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  15. JJWombatSeptember 1, 2020 at 10:00 PM

    Got to be 'Christmas in the Heart' - since you never listen to it more than once!

    At least I listened to 'Dylan & the Dead' twice before consigning it to the trough of silage - don't know if I even finished listening to 'Christmas in the Heart' all the way through

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  16. MrDaveSeptember 3, 2020 at 5:59 AM

    Blonde on Blonde -- even though I'm "supposed" to like it I still do

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIISeptember 3, 2020 at 8:12 AM

      Oh, I dunno that we're supposed to like any of his albums. Except those he recorded after he got shit. We were supposed to like Tempest, weren't we? Only Duquesne Whistle - a Robert Hunter song - is worth keeping off that. All his goddamn "returns to form".

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