As he did with 'It's My Job,' he finds another songwriter to pen the album's most self-justifying song, 'If It All Falls Down,' giving him plausible deniability if anyone takes offense. And that's a good idea, since Floridays is one of his more personal and self-reflective efforts, full of songs in which he waxes nostalgic ('Creola') or updates of old themes ('Nobody Speaks to the Captain No More'). Buffett sometimes alters that style to accommodate the theme of a particular song, giving a Brazilian feel to 'First Look,' which is about visiting Rio, and a full-on Stax Records R&B arrangement, appropriately enough, to 'Meet Me in Memphis.' But this is a record by Jimmy Buffett in his familiar soft rock mode, not Jimmy Buffett the country crossover candidate. And the musical style, as can be heard from the beginning of the opening track, 'I Love the Now' (co-written by Buffett and Carrie Fisher), is pop/rock with a Caribbean tinge. After two albums ( Riddles in the Sand and Last Mango in Paris) that produced six country chart singles entries between 19, Floridays finds the singer/songwriter parting ways with the production team of Jimmy Bowen and Tony Brown, but sticking with third co-producer Michael Utley (who is also the keyboard player in his band and a sometime songwriting partner) with himself installed as executive producer. The single “Down at the Lah De Dah” played off the Key West lifestyle Buffett helped popularize in song.Apparently, Jimmy Buffett's rapprochement with Nashville is over. The album’s cover was shot in Cuba by photographer Roberto Salas. The album featured the tracks “15 Cuban Minutes,” which had a music video. Hopefully, the songs we wrote and recorded, will also help folks deal with the fallout.” “Suddenly we were all hurled into survival mode that almost feels like science fiction, except for the fact that we are living it, in real time. “The world took a catastrophic meteor-like hit from a virus you can’t see without a microscope,” Buffett wrote. In the liner notes of last May’s “Life on the Flip Side,” the first of his two new 2020 studio albums, Buffett wrote about the effect the coronavirus was having on people and how his music might help a bit. Jimmy Buffett’s 2020 album, “Life on the Flip Side.” Mailboat Records

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