Eli Young Band’s ‘new again’ single is “Saltwater Gospel,” a song they released a few years ago, that never really got a real shot on the radio. But this time around, they have teamed up with Jimmy Buffett to record the Fins Up version of the song. When we talked to Jimmy about how he ended up on the song, he said, “It was Mac McAnally who turned me onto Eli Young Band a while back. I started listening to ‘em and I heard that song back then, and I thought, that’s a very cool song, cause it immediately got my attention since I am a child of the Gulf Coast, having grown up around Mobile Bay and every stretch of water between Key West and Corpus Christi.”
Jimmy also spent a lot of time early in his career in Texas, where all the guys in Eli Young Band or from, so he loves that aspect of the band. And when they approached him about re-recording the song with them, Jimmy says, “Of course I said, yeah, I’d love to do this. I thought it was a great idea. I can’t wait to go out and play it with Eli Young Band on the road when we can get back, when it’s safe and we can have fun, and we will go down to the ‘Saltwater Gospel.’”
“Saltwater Gospel (Fins Up version) is available wherever music is streamed or downloaded.
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“It was Mac McAnally who turned me onto Eli Young Band a while back. I started listening to ‘em and I heard that song back then, and I thought, that’s a very cool song, cause it immediately got my attention since I am a child of the Gulf Coast, having grown up around Mobile Bay and every stretch of water between Key West and Corpus Christi. And also, I love the Texas sides of them, as someone who spent a lot of time in my early career, solo, running around playing colleges and bars and honkytonks in Texas. So, of course I said, yeah, I’d love to do this. I thought it was a great idea. I can’t wait to go out and play it with Eli Young Band on the road when we can get back, when it’s safe and we can have fun, and we will go down to the ‘Saltwater Gospel.’”