Jimmy Buffett – Barometer Soup (1995/2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Jimmy Buffett – Barometer Soup (1995/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:28 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MCA Nashville

Barometer Soup is the nineteenth studio album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. The album was released on MCA and Margaritaville Records on August 1, 1995.

Following the release of Fruitcakes in the previous year, Buffett returned to songwriting and recorded the collection in Key West, Florida in January and February 1995. The album continued Buffett’s album chart success begun with Fruitcakes and reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200. The album was also certified “Platinum” by the RIAA on December 19, 2004.

The first single from the album, “Mexico” reached No. 25 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart but “Bank of Bad Habits”, the second single, did not chart.

As usual, Buffett went on tour in the summer of 1995, although instead of basing it on the album, he called it the “Domino College Tour”, after a song released on the box set three years prior; the song was co-written by Buffett and Dan Fogelberg. Songs from Barometer Soup still appeared regularly in the tour, including “Don’t Chu-Know”, “Diamond as Big as the Ritz” and “Mexico.” Played less frequently on the tour were “Jimmy Dreams”, the title track, “Bank Of Bad Habits” and “The Night I Painted the Sky.”Having gotten back the record-making habit with Fruitcakes, Jimmy Buffett repaired to the Monroe County Library in Key West during the winter of 1994-1995 with cohorts Russ Kunkel, Jay Oliver, Roger Guth, and Peter Mayer, where they read fiction and came up with most of the songs on Barometer Soup. Hence, we have “Remittance Man,” drawn from Mark Twain’s Following the Equator, and “Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” loosely adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story. Typically, there are also the comedy numbers “Bank of Bad Habits” and “Don’t Chu-Know” and an appropriation consistent with Buffett’s philosophy, James Taylor’s “Mexico.” Much of the music is low-key, though there are a couple of up-tempo tunes to add to the concert repertoire. As Jimmy Buffett albums go, this is another one. – William Ruhlmann

Tracklist:

1-1. Jimmy Buffett – Barometer Soup (04:57)
1-2. Jimmy Buffett – Barefoot Children (04:54)
1-3. Jimmy Buffett – Bank Of Bad Habits (03:53)
1-4. Jimmy Buffett – Remittance Man (05:56)
1-5. Jimmy Buffett – Diamond As Big As The Ritz (05:18)
1-6. Jimmy Buffett – Blue Heaven Rendezvous (04:02)
1-7. Jimmy Buffett – Jimmy Dreams (03:41)
1-8. Jimmy Buffett – Lage Nom Ai (03:43)
1-9. Jimmy Buffett – Don’t Chu-Know (03:48)
1-10. Jimmy Buffett – Ballad Of Skip Wiley (04:34)
1-11. Jimmy Buffett – The Night I Painted The Sky (05:30)
1-12. Jimmy Buffett – Mexico (04:06)

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