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conched wrote: Barometer Soup would be the one that has a soft spot in my heart. It is the first album that came out after I started going to Jimmy's shows in 1994. I can remember sitting in the Camelot music store and listening when they played a preview of Barometer Soup all day one day. It was fun hearing Jimmy sing some of those songs at the shows in early 1995 and many times throughout the years!

One of the common denominators here is that many of us have a soft spot for the album that we associate with beginning to follow Jimmy.

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Cap'n Bobby

Just heard In the Shelter on RM......the "revised" version from "Meet Me in Margaritaville".......I kind of forgot what a great tune that is!

The first two records on Barnaby. They're often overlooked because they were recorded prior to Buffett meeting up with Jerry Jeff in the Keys which drastically changed his sound. The blueprint was already in place (listen no further than "The Captain and the Kid"), it just took a little happenstance for everything to fall into place. There's not what I'd consider to be a "bad" song on either of them and Buffett even thought enough of several of those tunes to revisit them a little further down the road.

Tiki Torches wrote:The first two records on Barnaby. They're often overlooked because they were recorded prior to Buffett meeting up with Jerry Jeff in the Keys which drastically changed his sound. The blueprint was already in place (listen no further than "The Captain and the Kid"), it just took a little happenstance for everything to fall into place. There's not what I'd consider to be a "bad" song on either of them and Buffett even thought enough of several of those tunes to revisit them a little further down the road.

That's a great answer. I really like that.

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Cap'n Bobby

Tiki Torches wrote:The first two records on Barnaby. They're often overlooked because they were recorded prior to Buffett meeting up with Jerry Jeff in the Keys which drastically changed his sound. The blueprint was already in place (listen no further than "The Captain and the Kid"), it just took a little happenstance for everything to fall into place. There's not what I'd consider to be a "bad" song on either of them and Buffett even thought enough of several of those tunes to revisit them a little further down the road.

It really is interesting to go back and listen to "The Captain and the Kid" on "Down to Earth." It's a very different arrangement than the familiar version on "Havana Daydreamin'." My God! There's organ in it. But in that one song, the listener can hear the promise of what Jimmy went on to become.

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Cap'n Bobby