Volcano (Jimmy Buffett album)

Volcano
Studio album by Jimmy Buffett
Released	August 1, 1979 (LP) October 10, 1988 (CD)
Recorded	May 1979
Studio	AIR Studios
Genre	Country rock Gulf and Western
Length	33:37
Label	MCA MCA-5102 (US, 12", LP) MCAD-1657 (CD)
Producer	Norbert Putnam
Jimmy Buffett chronology
Son of a Son of a Sailor (1978) Volcano (1979) Coconut Telegraph (1981)

Volcano is the ninth studio album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and is his 11th overall. It was released on August 1, 1979, as his first album for MCA after its absorption of ABC Dunhill.

The album and its title song are named for the then-dormant Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat in the British West Indies where Buffett recorded the album in May 1979 at AIR Studios in Salem.^[1] The studio was severely damaged by Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and damaged even further after Soufrière Hills erupted again in 1995. Additional recording was done at Quadrafonic Studios in Nashville Tennessee and Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles, California in the United States. The album is dedicated to Buffett's wife and his daughter, Savannah Jane Buffett, who was born just before its release.