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Volcano by Jimmy Buffett
Volcano is an album by Jimmy Buffett, released in 1979. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 10 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Volcano”, on 5 lists with a best position of #256.
Volcano, Jimmy Buffett's ninth studio album, rolled ashore on August 1, 1979, his first for MCA after that label swallowed ABC Dunhill. Norbert Putnam produced, and most of it was cut that May at AIR Studios in Salem on Montserrat in the British West Indies. The island's Soufrière Hills volcano, dormant at the time, gave the record and its title song their name; extra sessions followed at Quadrafonic in Nashville and Sunset Sound in Los Angeles.
It's prime island-escapism Buffett, country, rock, folk and calypso blended into something you could drink in a hammock, and both the title track and "Fins" belong to the batch of hits his fans call the Big 8. The album is dedicated to his wife and to his daughter Savannah Jane, born just before it came out. That studio is long gone: Hurricane Hugo wrecked it in 1989, and the mountain itself woke up in 1995.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Volcano on radio countdowns
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.