Category: Come Music Monday

#80 – Island

This song has been an ear worm for me for quite a while, even last year it just kept playing over and over in my mind, but there wasn’t the chance to include it with my initial posts, but I knew I hoped to share and discuss it early in this year. It is a beautiful song, one of Jimmy’s softer, more poignant ballads, and it has always struck a chord with me.

#79 – Elvis Presley Blues

Elvis Presley Blues was released on JB’s 2006 album Take The Weather With You. This album was a bit different for Jimmy because it had more covers than songs written by himself. The majority actually, with ten of the fourteen songs being covers, songs I believe that Jimmy loved from artists that he admired.

This song was written by husband-and-wife duo David Rawlings and Gillian Welch (I am listing him first only because alphabetically he is listed first on the songs writing credits). It was performed and released on Gillian’s 2001 album called Time (The Revelator). If you enjoy music, I recommend you try to find Gillian’s original version to listen to, as well as the entire album, which received critical acclaim. I remember hearing it while I was visiting a friend in Billings, Montana and went out and bought myself a copy of the CD. If you like the folk-americana sound that is absolutely timeless, Gillian Welch is an artist you might like.

#78 – Banana Republics

I bet if you asked a group of people about this song, casual Jimmy Buffett fans, or even some more serious ones, the majority would tell you that Jimmy Buffett wrote this song. It would make sense, after all Jimmy put in on an album in the mid-seventies and has been singing it ever sense, it fits his lifestyle and his brand and some of his early life choices… but that majority of people would find out that this lovely gem of a song was written by Steve Goodman.