Living & Dying in ¾ Time
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| Studio album by Jimmy Buffett | ||||
| Released | February 1974 | |||
| Recorded | October 1973 | |||
| Studio | Woodland Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee | |||
| Genre | Country, Gulf and Western | |||
| Length | 38:15 | |||
| Label | Dunhill 50132 | |||
| Producer | Don Gant | |||
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| Allmusic |    |
| Robert Christgau | B− |
Living and Dying in ¾ Time is the fourth studio album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and the second major label album in Buffett's Don Gant-produced "Key West phase." It was initially released in February 1974 as Dunhill DS-50132 and later rereleased on Dunhill's successor labels ABC and MCA. It contains the song "Come Monday," his first Top 40 hit single.
Despite the title, not all the songs on the album are in ¾ time signature. Four tracks use 12/8 time: "Pencil Thin Mustache", "Brand New Country Star", "God's Own Drunk", and "West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown," with a repeating 17 bar pattern, actually making the true time signature of this song's verses 51/8. The lyrics of "Nautical Wheelers" on Buffett's subsequent album, A1A, refer to "living & dying in ¾ time" and the song is also in 3/4 time signature.
The album was Buffett's first to chart on the Billboard 200 album chart but it only reached number 176. Unlike A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean before it, it failed to make the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. The single of "Come Monday" reached number 30 on the Hot 100 as well as number three Easy Listening and number 58 Country. In addition, "Pencil Thin Mustache" hit number 44 Easy Listening and "Saxophones" "bubbled under" the Hot 100 at number 105.
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