September 3rd, 2007There are several reviews out this morning of Sunday’s concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts:
Boston Herald – “Crowd finds paradise at Buffett show”
Boston Globe – “Laid-back Buffett gives Gillette crowd an end-of-summer treat”
Sun Chronicle – “It’s party time in Foxboro”
Providence Journal – “Predictable Buffett delights Parrot Heads”
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September 2nd, 2007
The 2007 Bama Breeze tour continued Sunday night with the first of two shows from Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts.
Notable songs from the set list included “Only Time Will Tell,” “Scarlet Begonias,” and “Lovely Cruise.”
View the entire set list here, along with Bamafan’s show notes.
Did you attend the show? Post your experience and comments on our Discussion Board.
The tour continues in Canada on Wednesday with a show from the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto! The second Gillette Stadium show is this coming Saturday, September 8th.
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September 1st, 2007The Toronto Star has a great interview with Buffett: “The complicated uncomplicated life of Jimmy Buffett”
I didn’t get spoiled by success,” he chuckled. “I loved the beach too much, I worked in a bar, I did some busking … finally I was lucky to find something in Key West that turned it around.”
The thing he found was “Margaritaville,” the song to which Buffett’s name will forever be linked, the “what-me-worry?” plaint of a loser bathing his wounds in alcohol and the bucolic haze of a sun-drenched paradise.
“I wrote that song in six minutes,” he said, marvelling at its lasting cultural effects. “But I’m not the first person to sell escapism, and I had no idea that it would start something as big as the Parrothead movement.”
Read the entire article here.
Buffett plays the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto on Wednesday.
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September 1st, 2007The Republican has a review of Thursday night’s show at the Mohegan Sun Casino: “Lots of merriment, Jimmy Buffett style”
On a day of revelry that included an induction into the Mohegan Sun Walk of Fame, Jimmy Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band contributed to the contrived revelry with a two-hour performance on the casino’s Arena stage.
Mohegan Sun has become a regular summer stop on Buffett’s touring itinerary and as much as any other traveling artist his familiarity with the nooks and crannies of New England’s shoreline almost make him a native son.
The pied-piper of public inebriation, Buffett set up his stage to resemble the Bama Breeze Saloon and set out to engage the thousands of fans who had shown up with standard Buffett paraphernalia; stuffed parrots, grass skirts, and glasses filled with frozen beverages.
Read the entire article here.
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