A White Sport Coat And A Pink Crustacean (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Pop Vocal  »  Contemp. Pop Vocals
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: October 17, 1990
• Label: MCA Records (USA)
• UPC: 076731109022
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106710929
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #20773 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #541 in Pop Vocal (See Top 100 Pop Vocal Bestsellers)
• #188 in Contemp. Pop Vocals (See Top 100 Contemp. Pop Vocals Bestsellers)

Personnel: Jimmy Buffett (vocals, acoustic guitar); Steve Goodman (acoustic guitar); Reggie Young (electric guitar); Doyle Gresham (steel guitar); Vassar Clements (fiddle); Greg "Fingers" Taylor (harmonica); Mike Utley (piano); Shane Keester (Moog synthesizer); Ed "Lump" Williams (bass); Sammy Creason (drums); Ferrell Morris, Marvin Gardens (percussion); Don Gant, Buzz Cason, Carol Montgomery, Diane Harris (background vocals).

Recorded at Glaser Sound, Nashville, Tennessee.

Also available with LIVING AND DYING IN 3/4 TIME on 1 cassette.

Jimmy Buffett's major label debut (the title takes off from a sappy piece of late '50s teen pop by country singer Marty Robbins) is a bit more folky and laid back than you might expect. There are hints of the rowdier Buffett persona to come, but by and large this is early '70s mellow singer-songwriter stuff, albeit with cleverer than usual lyrics.

Highlights include "Death of an Unpopular Poet," a delicately arranged story song about a poet whose posthumous success leads, literally, to the dogs; "They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More," a nostalgic remembrance of '40s big-fruit wearer Carmen Miranda; and "My Lovely Lady," an enthusiastic paean to a woman who "can eat her own weight in crabmeat." There's also the immortal "Why Don't We Get Drunk," a song whose next line--"and screw"--raised eyebrows in 1973, although post-Eminem it's less likely to do so.

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