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Jimmy Buffett's second major label album is rather '70s-mellow, although songs such as "Brand New Country Star" and "The Wino and I Know" begin to hint at the tequila-swilling beachcomber character to come. The big selling point here is Buffett's first chart hit "Come Monday," a sentimental his-baby-left-him ballad (with strings, no less) that anticipates "Margaritaville" (albeit without the sense of humor).
Other noteworthy tracks include a hilarious coming-of-age-watching-'50s-TV reminiscence ("Pencil Thin Mustache") with the great line "Ramar of the Jungle was everybody's bwana/but only jazz musicians were smoking marijuana," and an intense cover of cult folkie Willis Allan Ramsey's "Ballad of Spider John." The most entertaining track, however, is a live-in-the-studio version of "God's Own Drunk," a hilarious monologue about getting all hootched up in the company of a bear that Buffett learned from hipster saint Lord Buckley.