Banana Wind is the 21st studio album

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 by American

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 popular music singer-songwriter

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 Jimmy Buffett

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. Released in June 1996

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, one year after Barometer Soup

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, released in August 1995

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Songs

"Jamaica Mistaica" is a ballad about an incident in Jamaica

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 on January 16, 1996 in which local authorities mistook Jimmy's seaplane, the Hemisphere Dancer

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, for a smuggling operation. The plane was shot at while carrying Buffett, U2's Bono

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, and Island Records producer Chris Blackwell

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. 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?

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  The song "False Echoes" (Havana 1921) 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" (Jimmy Buffett, Matt Betton) – 4:35
4. "Banana Wind" (Instrumental) – 3:57
5. "Holiday" (Jimmy Buffett, Ralph MacDonald, Bill Eaton, William Salter) – 5:05
6. "Bob Robert's Society Band" (Jimmy Buffett, Amy Lee) – 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 (Now And Then)" (Jimmy Buffett, Dave Loggins
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    ) – 4:18
12. "False Echoes" (Havana 1921) (Jimmy Buffett) – 15:54
13. (Hidden Track) "Tree Top Flyer" - Part of False Echos 15:54 run time

Personnel

The Coral Reefer Band

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• Jimmy Buffett: Guitar and vocals
• Michael Utley
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  : Keyboards,
• Greg "Fingers" Taylor: Harmonica
• Robert Greenidge
  Robert Greenidge
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  : Steel drums, percussion
• Ralph MacDonald
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  : Percussion
• Mac McAnally
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  : Acoustic guitar, mandolin, vocals
• Roger Guth: Drums
• Peter Mayer: Guitars, vocals
• Jim Mayer: Bass, vocals
• Amy Lee: Saxophone
• John Lovell: Trumpet
• Thom Mitchell: Saxophone
• Background Singers: Claudia Cummings, Tina Gullickson, Nadirah Shakoor
  Nadirah Shakoor
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Guests

• James Taylor
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   & Ben Taylor
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  : Vocals
• Bobby O'Dononvan: Violin & penny whistle
• Teddy Mulet: Trombone
• Freddy Fishstick: Piano, trombone, mandolin, and vibes