- Barometer Soup
Infobox Album |
Name = Barometer Soup
Type = album
Artist =Jimmy Buffett
Released =1 August 1995
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 = *Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:09fqxquhldse~T1]
Last album = "Fruitcakes"
1994
This album = "Barometer Soup"
1995
Next album = "Banana Wind "
1996"Barometer Soup" is an
album by American popular musicsinger-songwriter Jimmy Buffett . Released in August 1995, one year after "Fruitcakes" in May 1994, this album represented a return to his one-album-per-year writing and recording pace of the 70s and 80s.Chart performance
The album continued Buffett's album chart success begun with "Fruitcakes" and reached #6 on the "Billboard" 200. The album was also certified "Platinum" by the RIAA on
19 December 2004.The first single from the album, "Mexico" reached #10 on the "Billboard" Adult Comtemporary chart but "Bank of Bad Habits," the second single, did not chart.
ongs
"Diamond as Big as the Ritz" is based on the short story of the same name by
F. Scott Fitzgerald . "The Ballad of Skip Wiley" is based primarily onCarl Hiaasen 's book "Tourist Season " (although it also references the character of Skink Tyree, who appeared not in "Tourist Season", but in 5 other Hiaasen novels). The final song on this album is a cover of James Taylor's song "Mexico".Track listing
#"Barometer Soup" (Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Jay Oliver, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer) – 4:58
#"Barefoot Children" (Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Jay Oliver, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer) – 4:54
#"Bank of Bad Habits" (Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Jay Oliver, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer) – 3:53
#"Remittance Man" (Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Jay Oliver, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer) – 5:59
#"Diamond as Big as the Ritz" (Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Jay Oliver, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer) – 5:20
#"Blue Heaven Rendezvous" (Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Jay Oliver/Roger Guth, Peter Mayer) – 4:01
#"Jimmy Dreams" (Jimmy Buffett) – 3:39
#"Lage Nom Ai" (Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Jay Oliver, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer) – 3:42
#"Don't Chu-Know" (Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Jay Oliver, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer) – 3:48
#"Ballad of Skip Wiley" (Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Jay Oliver, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer) – 4:33
#"The Night I Painted the Sky" (Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Jay Oliver, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer) – 5:30
#"Mexico" (James Taylor ) – 4:06Personnel
The
Coral Reefer Band :
*Jimmy Buffett: Guitar and vocals
*Michael Utley : Keyboards
*Greg "Fingers" Taylor : Harmonica
*Robert Greenidge : Steel drums, percussion
*Roger Guth: Drums
*Peter Mayer: Guitars, vocals
*Jim Mayer: Bass, vocals
*Jay Oliver: Keyboards, programming
*Amy Lee: Saxophone
*Johnny Padilla: Saxophone
*John Lovell: Trumpet
*Thom Mitchell: Horns
*Michael Tschudin: Keyboards, Mallet Kat
*Ralph MacDonald : Percussion
*Background Singers: Claudia Cummings, Mary Harris,Nicolette Larson
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