Banana Wind


Banana Wind is the twentieth studio album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Released on June 4, 1996.

Songs

"Jamaica Mistaica" is about an incident in Jamaica on January 16, 1996 in which local authorities mistook Buffett's seaplane, the Hemisphere Dancer, for a smuggling operation. The plane was shot; shortly before, Buffett, U2's Bono, and Island Records producer Chris Blackwell had been aboard. No one was injured, though there were several bullet holes in the plane. "Desdemona's Building a Rocketship" concerns the character Desdemona from Buffett's 1992 novel Where Is Joe Merchant? The song "False Echoes" references the ship captained by Jimmy's grandfather, the five masted barkentine, Chickamauga, named after the civil war vessel the CSS Chickamauga.

Track listing

All songs by Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer and Jim Mayer, except where noted.
  1. "Only Time Will Tell" – 4:12
  2. "Jamaica Mistaica" – 5:54
  3. "School Boy Heart" – 4:35
  4. "Banana Wind" – 3:57
  5. "Holiday" – 5:05
  6. "Bob Robert's Society Band" – 3:44
  7. "Overkill" – 4:55
  8. "Desdemona's Building A Rocket Ship" – 7:10
  9. "Mental Floss" – 4:02
  10. "Cultural Infidel" – 3:58
  11. "Happily Ever After " – 4:18
  12. "False Echoes" – 15:54
  13. "Treetop Flyer" - Start around 20 seconds after False Echoes ends

    Personnel

The Coral Reefer Band