Jimmy Buffett - Live at the Record Plant, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, 2-19-1974

Here's singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett performing for the "Live at the Record Plant" radio show. He did this in early 1974. He actually came back for a second and final appearance in late 1974. I plan on posting that eventually as well.

After decades in the music business, Jimmy Buffett became a kind of institution, almost a genre by himself, and earned hundreds of millions of dollars. But I'll bet at the time of this concert he had no clue he would ever reach that level of success, because he was still trying to make it.

In February 1974, the same month as this concert, he released his fourth album, "Living and Dying in 3/4 Time." But his first three albums were released to very little notice at the time. That fourth one was the first to crack the Top 200 in the U.S. album charts - not Top 100, but Top 200 - and just barely. The album did contain his first single, "Come Monday," which made the Top 40 in the U.S. singles chart. However, that success was still to come, since the single wouldn't even be released until April. I'm sure most listeners to this radio program at the time had never heard of him yet.

Given all that, his performance was extremely casual. He was in solo acoustic mode, apparently because he couldn't afford to tour with a band yet. His banter between songs make up 25 minutes of this recording, with the actual songs making up the other 35 minutes. I've posted over 3,000 albums at this blog, and believe me, that's a very unusually high amount of banter. It sounded almost like he was hanging out with a few friends, telling stories and shooting the shit, and occasionally remembering to sing another song.

The music here in unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is one hour long. 

01 talk by emcee (Jimmy Buffett)
02 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
03 Ringling, Ringling (Jimmy Buffett)
04 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
05 Come Monday (Jimmy Buffett)
06 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
07 Pencil Thin Mustache (Jimmy Buffett)
08 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
09 Peddler Not a Pusher (Jimmy Buffett)
10 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
11 Railroad Lady (Jimmy Buffett)
12 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
13 They Don't Dance like Carmen No More (Jimmy Buffett)
14 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
15 Migration (Jimmy Buffett)
16 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
17 God's Own Drunk (Jimmy Buffett)
18 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
19 Brahma Fear (Jimmy Buffett)
20 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
21 A Pirate Looks at Forty (Jimmy Buffett)
22 talk by emcee (Jimmy Buffett)

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/60fuiKtRvZ2L4tU/file 

I don't know anything about the cover image except that it's from 1974. It had a big watermark right over his face and neck, but I got rid of it using Photoshop, since there are almost no good color photos of him from this early in his career.