Shortly after arriving in Nashville from Alabama in the late 1960s, Jimmy Buffett signed with Barnaby Records, which released Buffett's debut album, Down to Earth, in 1972. A second album, High Cumberland Jubilee, was also recorded that year, but Barnaby chose to just sit on it until 1976, releasing it after Buffett had begun to establish his mature style as an easygoing Gulf Coast folk-honky tonker. The tracks on the two Barnaby LPs have resurfaced in the CD era in countless configurations on any number of one-off budget collections, and that's what we have here -- Buffett's first two albums all jumbled together. He hadn't really identified his signature persona and style yet when he made these recordings, coming off more like an earnest folkie, although traces of the later Buffett show up in songs like "The Captain and the Kid." It's interesting to hear these tracks, but they're hardly essential for the casual fan, although there are some minor Buffett gems from the period like "God Don't Own a Car" that point the way to Buffett's later career and his subsequent explosion into a one-man entertainment industry.