Jimmy Buffett will be the musical guest for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Friday, July 31st.

Buffett’s last appearance on Late Night was February 3rd, 2005 when Conan O’Brien was still the host. They discussed Jimmy’s then-new book A Salty Piece Of Land.

Check out our Video Gallery for several clips of Jimmy performing on the late night shows.

Late Night With Jimmy Fallon airs at 11:35 pm CDT on NBC.

Jimmy Buffett was a good friend of legendary broadcaster Walter Cronkite, who died July 17th at the age of 92. At Cronkite’s funeral today in Manhattan friends noted that Jimmy Buffett had recently visited him:

Sandy Socolow, Cronkite’s longtime executive producer and friend, took center stage. He told a series of affectionate anecdotes, highlighting Cronkite’s imperfections.

At one point, Mr. Socolow recalled that one day, towards the end of his life, Mr. Cronkite received a visit from the patron saint of beaches, sailing, and cocktails. Jimmy Buffett, he explained, had landed his waterplane on the East River, not far from Cronkite’s apartment. Mr. Buffett then proceeded to serenade the newsman turned sailor with a jamming ukulele.

Coral Reefer Band member and reigning CMA Musician of the Year Mac McAnally has a new album coming out on August 4th entitled “Down By The River”.

Track list:

1. Blame it on New Orleans
2. Down by the River
3. If You Hang Around Long Enough
4. On Account of You
5. (Nothing Like A) Sunny Day
6. Over and Out
7. You First
8. Unresolved
9. Bound to Get Down
10. Big Disappointment
11. Until Then

You can listen to 30 second previews of each song at Amazon.com

We received a tip that LiveNation has released additional tickets for the August 11th Jimmy Buffett show in Indianapolis. TicketMaster is still showing the show sold out.

I just tried and was able to pull up 2 tickets in section C row Y.

Click here to browse tickets available for this show.

(hat tip to Jon for passing this along)

Update – I was also able to pull up tickets for Alpine Valley and Nissan Pavilion through LiveNation.

Congratulations to Geoff Z for winning the latest Jimmy Buffett Caption Contest.

Here was the photo:

And here was Geoff’s winning caption:

“YOU’RE the woman to blame!”

Out of a total of 474 votes cast, Geoff took 49% of the vote. Coming in second was Bob with “This Landshark’s for you”.

View all of the captions that were submitted here.

Thanks to all who submitted a caption and to everyone that voted. We’ll do another contest in a couple weeks!