The Toronto Star interviews Buffett

September 1st, 2007

The 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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Review of the Mohegan Sun show

September 1st, 2007

The 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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Jimmy inducted into Mohegan Sun Walk of Fame

August 31st, 2007

Jimmy Buffett was inducted into the Mohegan Sun Walk Of Fame on Thursday, just hours before taking the stage to play for a sold-out crowd at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, CT.

During the induction ceremony Buffett said “I kept hearing about this great place Mohegan Sun and so I had to come out and check it out for myself, so I came, and I keep coming back, here’s to many more great shows!”

Read the entire press release here.

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Buffett gets CMA nomination

August 30th, 2007

Jimmy Buffett, along with George Strait and Alan Jackson, has earned a CMA Award nomination for the live version of “Hey Good Lookin'” from the Live at Texas Stadium album.

Here are the other nominations for Music Event of the Year:

“Because of You”
Artists: Reba McEntire With Kelly Clarkson

“Find Out Who Your Friends Are”
Artists: Tracy Lawrence Featuring Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney

“Missing You”
Artists: Alison Krauss and John Waite

“The Reason Why”
Artists: Vince Gill With Guest Vocalist Alison Krauss

See all nominees here, and be sure to watch the CMA’s on November 7th on ABC.

Update – Mac McAnally has also been nominated for a CMA! He gets the nod for Musician of the Year for guitar.

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Article on tailgating at this weekend’s Gillette show

August 30th, 2007

The Sun Chronicle has an article on this weekend’s concert at Gillette Stadium:

Police say Jimmy Buffett fans without tickets to Sunday’s Gillette Stadium concert will be turned away from the parking lots.

Police also will order the lots opened at the normal 3:30 p.m. time – not earlier, as was the case at another concert last month – to discourage uncontrolled partying.

Fans without tickets but a passion for partying are being blamed for many of the widespread drunken parking lot brawls from a July 28 country music festival at the Route 1 stadium.

Read the entire article here.

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