3:22
Living And Dying in 3/4 Time, 1974
Written by Jimmy Buffett
One of the many self-referential songs about songwriters and playing music, this charming boogie-woogie sees Buffett talking about how he grew up on New Orleans jazzy rock, Dr. John and Clarence "Frogman" Henry. He's got a band, he's got a guitar, and they rock, but he can't get his record on the radio and the patrons at the local dive bar don't seem to care much. Then he has an epiphany, one I myself had not very far off in the past as a musical listener: brass always improves rock. "If we had saxophones / Big baritone cleaning up the muddy breaks / If we had saxophones / I could make that joint shimmy like a big California earthquake."
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