The Chicago Sun Times has an interesting article/interview with Jimmy Buffett where he reminisces about the time he spent in Chicago with Steve Goodman and others:

“I had just gotten into Chicago and was told we were going to have dinner at Steve’s place,” Buffett said in a Tuesday phone conversation. “And we were going to shoot this album cover.” Buffett had met Goodman at the Earl of Old Town. In the early 1970s, Buffett was an opening act at Richard Harding’s Quiet Knight, adjacent to the L tracks on West Belmont Avenue.

Buffett had his first major market success in Chicago. He opened for Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Neil Sedaka and others at the Quiet Knight. “I was loyal to Richard,” Buffett said. “He played me there many times, and I stayed when I started getting a following. That’s how it was then.”

Buffett was the outsider who was born in Pascagoula, Miss.

“It is a Chicago style not necessarily identified with the city,” Buffett explained. “There were just so many good people doing solo acoustic guitar shows. The Holstein brothers, Bonnie Koloc, Mike Smith. And those singer-songwriters also had to be comedians and emcees. I had to do that in my early New Orleans days. Stephen Stills and [Eric] Clapton were the guitar players I idolized. My natural strength seemed to lie in the ability to bulls— on stage. I had that talk with myself. I thought, ‘It’ll take a lot of hard work and practice, so if I’m successful, I can hire a good guitar player.’ After New Orleans, when I got to Chicago I worked places that were minor league ballparks, the Steak & Ale circuit. So meeting all those people in Chicago was a renaissance for me.

“They were great storytellers, bulls— artists on stage and performers. I gravitated toward that. I found my place.”

Read the full article here.

(hat tip Jahfin)

The Miami Herald has an article on Savannah Buffett, Jimmy’s eldest daughter, who just launched a clothing line called A1A:

The 32-year-old has launched an apparel brand called A1A, inspired by her legendary dad’s 1974 album. She also runs a namesake website, which offers recommendations on living the good life. She talked to us about her Parrothead-y world:

What inspired you to start a fashion line?

I started A1A as sort of an offering for people around my age and people from around Florida. Part of it is a love letter to the state. and a part of it takes its inspiration from my dad’s work — the old-school days of him being down in Key West and Miami and that vintage, throwback feel of what sort of made him who he was.

You started an “anti-socialite’s blog’’ www.savannahbuffett.com. What is that about?

I wanted to make it my Internet island of cool stuff from everything to travel recommendations to music recommendations and everything in between. I consider myself a ‘lifestylist’ so it’s about life, turning people onto to music and to travel. People can look at certain cities I visited to find some spots they wouldn’t necessarily find otherwise. Whenever I travel I know I like to know a local or find a local to give me the inside info. I always have that internal fear of being a tourist. [Laughs]. Not that there’s anything wrong with tourists!

Read more here.

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Only four songs separate Jimmy Buffett from his second number one song. “Knee Deep,” the duet with the Zac Brown Band, moved up to #5 from #8 this week.

It’s the 13th week on the charts for the single.

Preview and download the single below from AmazonMP3, or get it at iTunes:

Congrats to ‘Parrothead’ for winning the latest Jimmy Buffett Caption Contest!

Last week we showed you the below picture and asked you to submit your own caption.

We had a lot of great entries and narrowed it down to our favorite five and asked you to vote for your favorite.

The winning caption was:

Thank God the tiki bar is open!

with 34% of the vote. Coming in second was Sasquatch Saich with “Good God Almighty which way do I steer!”

Thanks to all who submitted captions and voted. We’ll do another one soon!