Banana Wind

Infobox Album |
Name = Banana Wind
Type = album
Artist = Jimmy Buffett


Released = 4 June 1996
Recorded = at Shrimpboat Sound, Key West, Florida
Genre = Rock/gulf and western
Length =
Label = MCA/Margaritaville Records
MCAD-11247 (U.S., CD)
Producer = Russell Kunkel, Jimmy Buffett
Reviews =

Last album = "Barometer Soup"
1995
This album = "Banana wind"
1996
Next album = "Beach House on the Moon"
1997

"Banana Wind" is an album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Released in June 1996, one year after "Barometer Soup" in August 1995.

ongs

"Jamaica Mistaica" is a ballad about an incident in Jamaica on January 16, 1996 in which local authorities mistook Jimmy's seaplane, the Hamisphere Dancer, for a smuggling operation. The plane was shot at while carrying Buffett, U2's Bono, and Island Records producer Chris Blackwell. No one was injured, though there were several bullet holes in the plane [ [http://www.buffettworld.com/airplanes_albatross.html Buffett World - Airplanes - Grumman HU-16C Albatross - The Hemisphere Dancer] ] . Desdemona's Building a Rocketship concerns the character Desdemona from Buffett's 1992 novel Where Is Joe Merchant?. The song Havana (1921) reverences the CSS Chickamauga.

Track listing

#"Only Time Will Tell" (Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer, Jim Mayer) – 4:12
#"Jamaica Mistaica" (Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer, Jim Mayer) – 5:54
#"School Boy Heart" (Jimmy Buffett, Matt Betton) – 4:35
#"Banana Wind" (Instrumental) (Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer, Jim Mayer) – 3:57
#"Holiday" (Jimmy Buffett, Ralph MacDonald, Bill Eaton, William Salter) – 5:05
#"Bob Robert's Society Band" (Jimmy Buffett, Amy Lee) – 3:44
#"Overkill" (Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer, Jim Mayer) – 4:55
#"Desdemona's Building A Rocket Ship" (Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer, Jim Mayer) – 7:10
#"Mental Floss" (Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer, Jim Mayer) – 4:02
#"Cultural Infidel" (Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer, Jim Mayer) – 3:58
#"Happily Ever After (Now And Then)" (Jimmy Buffett, Dave Loggins) – 4:18
#"False Echoes" (Havana 1921) (Jimmy Buffett) – 15:54

Personnel

The Coral Reefer Band:
*Jimmy Buffett: Guitar and vocals
*Michael Utley: Keyboards,
*Greg "Fingers" Taylor: Harmonica
*Robert Greenidge: Steel drums, percussion
*Ralph MacDonald: Percussion
*Mac McAnally: Acoustic guitar, mandolin, vocals
*Roger Guth: Drums
*Peter Mayer: Guitars, vocals
*Jim Mayer: Bass, vocals
*Amy Lee: Saxophone
*John Lovell: Trumpet
*Thom Mitchell: Saxophone
*Background Singers: Claudia Cummings, Tina Gullickson, Nadirah Shakoor

Guests

*James Taylor & Ben Taylor: Vocals
*Bobby O'Dononvan: Violin & penny whistle
*Teddy Mulet: Trombone
*Freddy Fishstick: Piano, trombone, mandolin, and vibes

References