Monday, July 7, 2025

I can't be your hero today (Jimmy Buffett) (LP 3508)

Jimmy Buffett  Buried Treasure Volume 1 (Record, Mailboat Records, 2017) ***

GenreFolk, pop 

Places I remember: Vinyl Countdown

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Don't Bring Me Candy

Gear costume: Abandoned on Tuesday 

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5

Active compensatory factors: I went into this one blindly, not realising that Jimmy was going to be acting as a DJ for each track. I ended up skipping the introductions and just listened to the newly (for 2017) discovered songs from 1969.

He says that he was mimicking Gordon Lightfoot at the time, and you can certainly hear that but what the songs reveal is a young singer songwriter beginning the voyage of discovery. So, as long as you keep that in mind, it's a pleasurable cruise through his back pages.

If you are looking for the laid-back sea dog you will be disappointed. 

Where do they all belong? Not sure I'll jump aboard for any further volumes.

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