![]() "Survive" (Jimmy Buffett, Mike Utley) – 4:50."Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants" (Jimmy Buffett) – 4:01."Stranded on a Sandbar" (Jimmy Buffett) – 3:08. ![]() "Treat Her Like a Lady" (Jimmy Buffett, David Loggins) – 4:18." Volcano" (Jimmy Buffett, Keith Sykes, Harry Dailey) – 3:37." Fins" (Jimmy Buffett, Deborah McColl, Barry Chance, Tom Corcoran) – 3:27.Allmusic reviewer Vik Iyengar posits that "this album marks a low point for Jimmy Buffett in a decade in which he delivered one solid album after another." Track listing It did not chart officially, but peaked at number 86 in the Record Business magazine chart in Christmas week and became an enduringly popular song on BBC Radio 2 in a country where Buffett has had very little success.Ĭritical reception Professional ratings Review scoresĪlthough the album generated two songs, " Fins" and " Volcano," that have become Buffett concert standards, part of 'The Big 8" that he has played at almost all of his concerts, critical reception was less positive. In the United Kingdom, "Chanson pour les petits enfants" was released as a single for Christmas 1979. Three singles from the album charted including "Fins" (number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 number 42 Adult Contemporary), "Volcano" (number 66 Hot 100 number 43 Adult Contemporary), and "Survive" (number 77 Hot 100). Volcano reached number 14 on the Billboard 200 album chart and number 13 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. Buffett performed " Volcano" with Don Henley at a 1993 Walden Woods Project benefit concert that is available on Henley's 2002 One of These Nights. The album is dedicated to Buffett's wife and his daughter, Savannah Jane Buffett, who was born just before its release.Īll of the songs are written or co-written by Buffett. (The studio was severely damaged by Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and Soufrière Hills erupted again in 1995.) Additional recording was done at Quadrafonic Studios in Nashville Tennessee and Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles, California in the United States. The album and its title song are named for the then dormant Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat in the British West Indies where Buffett recorded the album in May 1979 at AIR Studios. It was released on Augas his first album for MCA after its absorption of ABC Dunhill. Volcano is the ninth studio album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and is his 11th overall.
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