It’d been over 25 years since Jimmy played a public concert in Omaha, but he made up for it with a memorable show that started with an introduction from “Uncle Warren.” The Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, came out at the beginning of the show to introduce Jimmy:

“I want to welcome all of you to this 2012 annual meeting,” Warren Buffett said with a laugh.

“Cousin Warren,” Jimmy Buffett interrupted, “that’s next month.”

Coincidentally, about an hour after Jimmy’s show ended, Saturday Night Live made a Warren/Jimmy “Buffett Rule” joke during their Weekend Update segment.

Omaha fans received a special treat when Buffett debuted the song “All Night Long,” which he duets with Lionel Richie on Richie’s latest album Tuskegee.

The Omaha World Herald has a review of the show here:

“Something tells me there have been people preparing for this for a long time,” Buffett said. “It is great to be back in Omaha and I mean that from the bottom of my heart. I promise it won’t be this long before I’m back again.”

Buffett offered a lot of jokes in between songs and told about how he wrote his tunes. He also made lots of references to “cousin Warren,” eating at Piccolo Pete’s and the stormy weather outside both between songs and by subbing Omaha-friendly lyrics during some songs.

The fans screamed and cheered every time.

I’ve never seen an artist receive that kind of open and absolute affection from a crowd.

“I’ve felt the love here for a long time,” Buffett said. “I’m glad we got to do it here tonight.”

Jimmy Buffett took the 2012 Welcome to Fin Land Tour to Tampa on Friday night, playing a show at the 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheater.

The show had a couple rare songs played, including “No Plane on Sunday” (hadn’t been played since 1995!) and “Hey Good Lookin'” (last played 2008). A solo acoustic version of “Nautical Wheelers” was the final encore. See the full set list here.

After the show, Jimmy boarded his jet and headed to New Orleans where he dropped in at D.B.A. and played a few songs:

photo by @rglein

Jimmy will play a free show Sunday at Woldenberg Park for the NCAA Final Four. See all tour dates currently scheduled here.

On Sunday night in Honolulu Jimmy Buffett played his second show in the Hawaiian islands in three days. The Honolulu Pulse has a review of the show:

Beach balls were bounced, marijuana was smoked, the skies stayed clear, and a good time was had by all last night as Jimmy Buffett brought his “Welcome to Fin Land” tour to Honolulu for two hours of tropical escapism under the stars at the Waikiki Shell.

“You people really don’t care about going to work on Monday, do you?” Buffett said, adding that partying at the Shell on Sunday night is “like starting next weekend early.”

Buffett had a good time with the fans last night. He noted the presence of a “parrot head fin baby” down front, said that the kid grew up he’d probably hate his parents for dressing him up like that, and promised that “we’ll still be playing when he’s 20,” even though, “we were never meant to last this long.”

Read the full review here.

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band performed Thursday night in Little Rock, Arkansas, a town they haven’t played in a couple decades.

The Arkansas Times has a review and photos from the show:

It’s good to be Jimmy Buffett. He’s got his own brand of beer, Landshark. His own bar/restaurant chain, Margaritaville. And when he decides to come to come to Verizon Arena he sells out in 90 minutes — the norm wherever he plays. All that wonderfulness with only one hit song to his credit (you know which one).

But from a critical point of view it’s even better for JB — his concerts are a coronation, not an examination of whether or not he’s on his game that night.

Buffett and his extraordinary 12-piece backing band — including Arkie-deluxe Mike Utley, his band leader and keyboard player for 30 years or so — were absolutely the toasts of the town, if not the state, Thursday night as they thrilled 16,161 Parrotheads.

Read the full review here.

The Welcome to Fin Land Tour keeps on rolling Saturday night with a show in Louisville, Kentucky.

It was his first show in Birmingham since 2001, and Jimmy Buffett made it a special one.

“Stars Fell on Alabama” and “Sweet Home Alabama” were just a couple of the special tunes Jimmy played. He sent the crowd home with a solo acoustic rendition of “Dreamsicle.”

View the full set list here.

The tour moves to Tallahassee on Tuesday and then Little Rock on Thursday. Get your tickets now!