Jimmy Buffett - Don't Stop The Carnival [ENHANCED CD]

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Music Review: Jimmy Buffett's island magic docks in the wrong harbor.
Rating: 1 Stars

Some chimerical optimisms need to be abandoned. Streisand to one day understate a lyric, Robert Smith to have a "good hair day," or the Wu-Tang Clan to find humility.

When Buffett's book, Where Is Joe Merchant? landed on the New York Times bestseller list, somehow, that was believable. Our culture usually gives authors instant credibility. Doesn't everyone have a story to tell? We bought that one like a pioneer clamoring for the elixir from the traveling medicine man during the Gold Rush ... couldn't get the money out of the pocket fast enough. But a musical about a Broadway press agent, Norman Paperman, seeking escape to a tropical paradise? That's where we have to draw the line in the Caribbean sand.

Yes, the idea of a play with a carnival island atmosphere could pass through Immigration. But then comes the "litmus test" for substance and quality ... and that is where Jimmy Buffett studio albums have been falling short for some time.

Instead of dry docking in New York for makeup and dance lessons, maybe the challenge should be to write more songs with the nautical wisdom of "Coast of Marseilles," "Changing Channels,"or "I Have Found Me A Home." Or if you'd rather remain a cynical spokesman for the Parrotheads, give us another "Carnival World," or "I Heard I Was In Town." They were great for uplifting the spirit.

Broadway can be a real sell-out of the soul, just investigate the stories behind A Chorus Line. Although Paul Simon's musical, Capeman, also fell creatively short, at least his play had the purpose of a crusade, a story that made the New York papers a couple decades ago - a story that had to be told.

Once a philosopher for society dropouts, playwright Jimmy Buffett should cash in his sheet music for the manuscript containing the words, "To thine own self be true," and stop sucking Banana Wind.

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