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Jimmy’s Grumman Goose. Video from Margaritaville.com |
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Jimmy’s Note:Let’s face it, I like my wings – the ones you can see on my plane and the ones you can’t see in my brain. They have taken me on some very interesting flights. When I decided to finally get to work on a new album, I realized that as a pilot, the flights to, from and around Africa were as much a part of the adventure as my time in the desert. Inspired by re-reading my favorite parts of Canterbury Tales, Wind, Sand and Stars, and Treasure Island, I knew I wanted the music to have words you could see and wings you could not. When I heard Will Kimbrough’s song for the first time, it reminded me of a magical moment in the days that I dropped anchor in St. Barth back in 1978. My boat, the Euphoria, was greated by the “boat children of Moon and Venus”, bringing coffee and croissants. I liked the island and the children immediately. I returned the favor by bringing them on board one night and playing them a movie. In my mad scientist approach to outfitting the boat, I had installed a mammoth video deck, I think the only one of its kind on a boat in the Caribbean in those days before the advent of the VHS tape and DVDs. The tapes were the size of lunch boxes and with space being of primary concern on a voyaging yacht, I had room for only four movies. They were: Black Orpheus, Casablanca, The Man Who Would Be King, and The Wizard Of Oz. One evening after showing The Wizard Of Oz, I was getting the kids’ reaction to seeing it for the first time (it was probably my 500th), when one of them popped up and said, “I can go to Oz anytime I want.” “Oh really,” I answered, “How can you do that?” “Because I have a car,” he answered. “Really?” I asked. Well, for a ten year old on an island with about twenty total cars at that time, I asked him, “Where do you keep this car?” He smiled, pointed to the side of his head, and replied “It’s in my brain.” I hope you all keep that childish way of figuring out how to use the wings you can’t see or the wheels on your feet, and I hope you use them often. |