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Track Listings

1 Makin' Music for Money
2 Door Number 3
3 Dallas
4 Presents to Send You
5 Stories We Could Tell
6 Life Is Just a Tire Swing
7 A Pirate Looks at Forty
8 Migration
9 Trying to Reason with Hurricane Seasons
10 Nautical Wheelers
11 Tin Cup Chalice

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Even without a hit single, this 1975 LP struck a chord with it's reflective, evocative songs-and became Buffett's first Top 40 album as a result. Key cuts: Migration; a Pirate Looks at Forty; Makin' Music for Money, and Life Is Just a Tire Swing.

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Jimmy Buffett's albums are almost always happily hedonistic, but every now and then even he admits that there's hell to pay for all the high jinks. On A1A, an album named for the coastal highway that ends just blocks from the singer's onetime home in Key West, Florida, that realization comes in the form of "A Pirate Looks at Forty" and "Trying to Reason with the Hurricane Season," which acknowledge the onset of a king-size hangover. Buffett offers some hair of the dog on "Presents to Send You" and "Life Is Just a Tire Swing," however, and there's a nice selection of other tracks as well, including the lovely waltz "Nautical Wheelers" and "Door Number Three," a hilarious if somewhat dated song about the long-lost game show Let's Make a Deal. --Daniel Durchholz

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.92 x 5.55 x 0.47 inches; 3.1 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Universal Music Group
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 1698773
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 1990
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ October 21, 2006
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Universal Music Group
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000002NYW
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 442 ratings

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Buffett for people with no birds near their craniums.
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Buffett for people with no birds near their craniums.
I agree with the reviewer who said he is not a parrothead but a jimmy buffett fan. This album is some great music, and evokes true feeling of mellow 70s times.The songs here speak to me esp. "life is just a tire swing". I love hard rock like Nirvana, but this album turned me into a Buffett fan, if not a parrothead (ugh!) Lest we not forget the late great Steve Goodman who plays great acoustic guitar on this album.
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