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Track Listing
1. Blue Guitar
2. Mademoiselle (Voulez-Vous Danser)
3. Autour de Rocher
4. Savannah Fare You Well
5. All the Ways I Want You
6. Last Man Standing
7. What If the Hokey-Pokey Is All It Really Is About
8. Altered Boy
9. U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile, The
10. Someday I Will
11. Far Side of the World
12. Tonight I Just Need My Guitar
Album Notes
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel includes: Jimmy Buffett (vocals); Sonny Landreth (guitar, slide guitar); Vincent Nguini (guitar); Tony Cedras (accordion); Jim Horn (tenor saxophone); Stewart Duncan (fiddle); David Ranson (bass); Mike Burch (drums).
The Coral Reefer Band: Mac McAnally (vocals, guitar, mandolin, piano); Peter Mayer (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Jim Mayer (vocals, bass); Tina Gullickson, Nadirah Shakoor (vocals); Doyle Grisham (pedal steel guitar); Tom Mitchell, Amy Lee (saxophone); John Lovell (trumpet); Michael Utley (accordion, keyboards); Robert Greenidge (steel drums, timbales); Roger Guth (drums); Ralph MacDonald (percussion).
Includes liner notes by Jimmy Buffett.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
That there's more to Jimmy Buffet than parrotheads, "Margaritaville," and cheeseburgers in Paradise has never been more apparent than on this laid-back collection of masterly songwriting. Buffet's songs combine the thoughtful craft of an accomplished songsmith with a deceptive light-heartedness; by the time you're at the first chorus he's already reeled you in.
Though he's sung a few novelty songs in his time, and performs a couple here, he's no novelty act, as evidenced by songs such as "All the Ways I Want You" and the gorgeous "Savannah Fare You Well," both recalling the golden age of '60s and '70s singer/songwriters. "Last Man Standing" conjures the '70s, too, with a dirty funk reminiscent of Little Feat, while Sonny Landreth's "USS Zydecoldsmobile," featuring Landreth himself on slide guitar, is as close as this relaxed set gets to an incendiary rocker. Mostly though, FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD is a timely reminder of Jimmy Buffet's strengths as storyteller and songwriter, and that there's life beyond Nashville's production line songwriting about cookie-cutter topics.
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