Friday has brought a treat for Jimmy Buffett fans: Two new singles from his upcoming album have been released, giving listeners a chance to visit “The University of Bourbon Street” and “Mozambique.”

Both tunes can be heard on a variety of streaming services, including YouTube. And each one of them has an Alabama connection.

“The University of Bourbon Street” was co-written with Mobile native and longtime Buffett collaborator Will Kimbrough. It also features New Orleans’ famous Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

Kimbrough has previously talked about the origins of the song, describing it as “a story song about Jimmy’s early years in the late ‘60s in New Orleans, playing in a band on Bourbon Street.” Kimbrough also shared that when inspiration hit in the studio, after the musical tracks had been recorded, Buffett called him in for an extensive reworking of the planned lyrics.

The resulting tune is, more than anything, a fond tribute to New Orleans. Buffett, who died on Sept. 1, mentions experiences such as singing on a paddle-wheel boat, building a Mardi Gras float and smoking a joint “with a beautiful hippie.” But he also name-checks numerous institutions he visited on his way to earning a “po-boy master’s degree” and a “Lucky Dogg Ph.D.”

Buffett sings: “I sang ‘Hey Pocky Way’ on the streetcar headed uptown/ I went class every day and never wore a frown/ I was taught by the Neville brothers/ Ben Spellman and a whole lot of others/ that brass band blew my mind/ when I joined in the second line.”

Buffett omits any mention of his failed year at Auburn University, though he does refer in passing to subsequent classroom time in Mississippi: “I guess the point of going to college/ was to acquire myself a little knowledge/ and help me figure out what life is really all about/ It made Peets and J.D. happy/ and set me wild and free/ then I danced out of Mississippi to the University of Bourbon Street.”

The other new single, “Mozambique,’ is a cover of a Bob Dylan-Jacques Levy song that came out on Dylan’s 1976 album “Desire.” It features Birmingham native Emmylou Harris, who sang on Dylan’s original.

If a rhapsody about finding romance in a faraway, exotic locale may be relatively rare for Dylan, but it is right in Buffett’s wheelhouse. And it’ll come as no surprise that Buffett’s arrangement goes heavier on the steel drum.

Buffett’s final studio album, “Equal Strain on All Parts,” is due for release on Nov. 3.