Somewhere Over China (CD)

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• Release Date: October 25, 1990
• Label: MCA Records (USA)
• UPC: 076731116822
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106711022
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #23716 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
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Personnel: Jimmy Buffett (vocals, guitar); Josh Leo, Barry Chance (acoustic & electric guitar); Doyle Grisham, Hank DeVito (steel guitar); Greg "Fingers" Taylor (harmonica); Michael Utley (piano, organ, synthesizer); Farrell Morris (vibes, percussion); Harry Dailey (bass); Norbert Putnam (synthesizer, bass); Matt "Matty Dread" Betton (drums, timbales); M.L. Benoit (congas); Deborah "Heather" McColl, Florence "Bambi" Warner, Christian Bachellier, David Loggins, Freddy Fishstick (background vocals).

Recorded at The Bennett House, Franklin, Tennessee from September to October 1981.

If most of Buffett's best albums have been musical evocations of tropical party times, SOMEWHERE OVER CHINA would seem to be the inevitable hangover; the songs, with few exceptions, reek of crankiness, nostalgia, and self-doubt, as can be readily seen from titles like "Where's the Party," "It's Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet" (Buffett's--no kidding--attempt at new wave), or "I Heard I Was in Town." The epic title tune, which recycles musical cliches of the "Chinatown, My Chinatown" variety, may be an exception, although its lyric is opaque to the point of impenetrability, so who knows?

"When Salome Plays the Drum," is an up-tempo Latin-tinged number in more typical Buffett style, and "Steamer" is a sentimental but obviously heartfelt love song. The album ends with a camped-up lounge lizard version of Frank Loesser's standard "On a Slow Boat to China," in which Buffett and his bandmates seem to having a thoroughly inebriated good time.

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