Banana Wind is the twentieth studio album by American popular music singer-songwriterJimmy Buffett. It was released on MCA and Margaritaville Records on June 4, 1996, debuting at number four on theBillboard 200.
"Jamaica Mistaica" is about an incident inJamaica on January 16, 1996, in which local authorities mistook Buffett's seaplane, theHemisphere Dancer, for a smuggling operation. The plane was shot; shortly before, Buffett, U2'sBono, and Island Records producerChris Blackwell had been aboard. No one was injured, though there were several bullet holes in the plane.[3] (The plane itself is now on display atUniversal CityWalk, across from Buffett'sMargaritaville restaurant.) "Desdemona's Building a Rocketship" concerns the character Desdemona from Buffett's 1992 novelWhere Is Joe Merchant? The song "False Echoes (Havana 1921)" references the ship captained by Jimmy's grandfather, the five-mastedbarkentineChickamauga, named after the civil war vesselCSSChickamauga.[4]
