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Posted By Cheeseburger Jack
A good early album. It has kind of a country sound to it on many sounds, but thankfully more in the early 70's style rather than the mid 80's style (i.e. Riddles, Last Mango). If features better known songs like "Pencil Thin Mustache" and "Come Monday". Other highlights are "Saxophones" (good rock song), "Ballad of Spider John" and "The Wino and I Know" (good acoustic-rock songs), and the rambling "God's Own Drunk".

It might take a few listens to really get in to this, but give it a shot. The country-ish songs even improve over time.

Great album cover!

Posted By headparrothead
Living and Dying in 3/4 Time...such an enigmatic title for an album filled with such simple music.
The world was still trying to recover from "White Sport Coat" when this album was released. Jimmy was making his mark with songs like "Pencil Thin Mustache" and the sentimental "Come Monday". But there's more to 3/4 Time than those 2 great songs. There's "Ringling, Ringling", a fantastic country & western ditty about a small Montana town about 50 miles north of Livingston. "Brahma Fear", "Brand New Country Star", & "The Wino & I Know" are great c&w songs that bring out the cowboy (or cowgirl) in everyone. And "Livingston's Gone to Texas" has never sounded cleaner (even if it's missing a verse). Saxophones is a true butt-shaking tune if ever there was one. And "God's Own Drunk"...the second installment in a Buffett phan's anthems. Listen to this song and then listen to "Joe's Blues" by Todd Snider and there's an amazing string of similarities.

score: 5 coronas (of 5)

Posted By LOUISEakaPGHPIRATE
I JUST WISH I'D BEEN A PARROTHEAD BACK WHEN ALL THESE "ALBUMS" WERE COMING OUT, TO MY SISTER AND I, THEY'RE ALL NEW TO US WITHIN THE LAST 3 YEARS. I'VE HAD TO LOOK TO SEE WHEN THEY WERE ALL RELEASED AND THINK BACK TO WHAT I WAS DOING AT THAT POINT IN MY LIFE. I SURE WASN'T HAVING AS MUCH FUN AS I AM NOW.

Posted By elizabeth
PghPirate
I,too, wish I had been this enlightened more than
10 years ago. But I'm playing catch up now!

Yesterday's over my shoulder, so I can't look back there too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me.

Posted By PGHPIRATE
LIZ:

IT DIDN'T TAKE MY SISTER AND I LONG TO GET ALL THE CD'S AND "STUDY THE LANGUAGE TAPES AND READ ALL THE BOOKS" EITHER. HEY, WE BECAME PARROTHEADS IN NOV. 1996 AND BY THE CONCERTS OF '97, WE WERE WELL VERSED IN ALL THE SONGS. IT'S FUNNY HOW WE WERE TERRIBLE SCHOOL STUDENTS, BUT ASK ME ABOUT A SONG JIMMY SINGS AND I CAN TELL YOU VERBATIM, HEE HEE HEE, MY PARENT'S WOULDA BEEN PROUD!!!!!!

Posted By sonofabeach
A lot of these albums are new to me too.
I Wish I would have been a Parrothead 10 years ago instead of listening to that damn 2 Live Crew
HEEEEY WE WANT SOME BUUUUFFETT!!!!!!

Posted By ohio
Son: don't beat yourself up too bad, bub. What's important is where you are now! (You're with us, what better place to be!)

Posted By sonofabeach
Ohio,
The journey was weeeeeeeeeeell worth it!!!!!!!!!
When I see old friends they don't understand what's happened to me as far as my attitude,
dress code,tastes(or lack of taste).Even listening to country and never used to read books untill I found Jimmy.
Back in 90 all my friends used to call me
Vanilla Mike.
Man!!What a radical change(for the better,that is)
Still can't resist doin'Ice Ice Baby on kareoke night at the bar around here though!LOL!!!!!
Of course I usually butcher a Buffett tune or 2 also!!!!!!!!!!!!PHINZ UP!!!!!!!!!

Posted By PGHPIRATE
SON:

JUST REMEMBER, "YOU CAN CHECK OUT ANYTIME YOU WANT, BUT YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE" AND HEY, IT'S OK TO OCCASIONALLY LISTEN AND SING TO MUSIC OTHER THAN JIMMY, DON'T FEEL GUILTY. ALTHOUGH WHEN I DO, I FEEL LIKE I'M DESERTING HIM!!!!!!!

Posted By well duh
Sonofabeach -- glad to see you're 'settling down'. I hope you didn't take my question about Anita Bryant as a crack (I'm really just so old I remember that); you're a refreshing voice here, & glad to hear that you're enjoying 3/4 time. It was my first JB album (& it was an album -- now, how's that for a dinosaur). Anyway, have fun, kid, & you're certainly not 'vanilla' anymore.

p.s. -- & this covers several posts, as a general tip, it's probably not a good idea to go running though the streets unclothed at a party that your mother is attending -- they don't appreciate near-commando -- but keep having fun.

Posted By sonofabeach
Well Duh,
I really did'nt know who Anita Bryant was.And the only Miss America that I remember is Vanessa Williams thanks to my grandad's not very well hidden Penthouse collection.
There are a lot of things I did'nt know or care about before Jimmy came along.

I don't get drunk very often but when I do I like to try and make everybody laugh(at my own expense).
You should see younger my brother.
He was married to a UUUUGly woman that was about 15 years older than him for almost a year.
She looked like a female version of Larry Bird.
We joke about it now.I always ask him
"What were you thinking" and he says
"You mean What was I drinking"
He claims that he was drunk for a whole year of his life and likes to say that he was married to Canadian Mist.

I do have a few drunk stories that are more embarrassing but they are definately keepers.

P.S.
I fell asleep in the hammock this afternoon for a couple hours and that's why I can't sleep now and am up playing on the computer.
Gotta be to work in a 2 hours so I guess I'll sleep there.
PHINZ UP and stay SLOber!!!!

Posted By ohio
WD: I obviously missed something VERY important. Who was running naked with their mom?!? (I can tell, it's going to be a loooong day!) Phins up phruitcakes- ...to the right...

Posted By ohio
ok, I found the 'naked with my mother in the street' reference. (can I just say- tee-hee)

Posted By sonofabeach
For the record,
I was not running naked with my mother.
I was in my underwear.
She was in the house and happened to come out while I was dancing in the street.
That Damned Margaritaville Tequila!!!!!!!!

Posted By well duh
sonofabeach -- sorry, didn't mean to indicate I didn't read it that way. Mom indoors -- you running in underwear outdoors -- universe in harmony (LOL).

p.s. I hope you don't think we're giving you a hard time -- you just serve up some awfully good straight lines, sometimes, and some of us can't resist them. All done with affection, I assure you.

Posted By ohio
WD & SonOfA: ok, we're in harmony...but you have to admit, the semi-true story was rather fun! phins up phriends!!

Posted By Juicyfruit
Oh, the parties we could have...and the stories they would tell! ^^'s up!

Posted By ohio
c'mon, J, we tell pretty good stories without an actual party...

...we are the people...

Posted By PGHPIRATE
SONOFABEACH:

WHAT'S THIS???? I LEAVE HERE FOR A FEW DAYS AND YOU'RE OUT STRUTTIN NAKED THRU THE CROSSWALKS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK?????? BOY DID I MISS A LOT!!!!! DAMN. DO IT AGAIN, SON!!!!!!