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UMe is celebrating the unforgettable work of Jimmy Buffett with newly remastered reissues of some of the most classic records from his illustrious career. Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes is the album that turned Jimmy Buffett from chronically underrated country outlaw to tropical pop star, establishing the template that would eventually make the Southern singer/songwriter into a multi-million-dollar cottage industry. It’s also epically misunderstood. For decades now, Buffett has been the lifestyle guru, poet laureate, and celebrity cheerleader for a vast national network of obsessive fans known as Parrotheads. They turn out in droves to Buffett’s summer tours to live the dream of an island escape, if only for a while, as part of a self-sustaining subculture known for partying as loud, long, and hard as the most raucous rock ‘n’ roll crowd. In the years since “Margaritaville” started the whole thing rolling, Buffett has penned plenty of songs that seem tailor-made for hoisting a tropical cocktail high, shaking your shorts-clad butt to the Caribbean-infused groove, and howling loud enough to scare the parrot off of your shoulder. But the man who began his career trying desperately to be Mobile, Alabama’s answer to Gordon Lightfoot has never forsaken his penchant for reflective balladry either. And that’s the dominant mode on 1977’s Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, the album that made Buffett an icon. Changes is the soundtrack for laying back and letting the sun wash over your booze-soaked body while you chuckle wryly about your life’s missteps, but not too loudly lest you incur the wrath of the hangover gods.