Local papers have reviews for the first two shows of this leg of the tour:

Phoenix New Times: “Jimmy Buffett Pleases Parrotheads in Parodise”
Las Vegas Sun: “With Captain Buffett, it’s not entirely wastin’ away again at the MGM Grand”

The West coast tour leg continues Tuesday in Concord, CA. View all tour dates here.

Scott Fowler at the Charlotte Observer has a review of Tuesday night’s Jimmy Buffett show in Charlotte: “Buffett takes Parrotheads to beach”

OK, picture this – a 62-year-old man, slightly chubby, wearing a salmon-colored T-shirt and patterned board shorts. He is barefoot and balding.

Let’s say this man wants you to listen to him for 2½ hours as he tells the story of his life.

Would you do it?

Around 18,000 did so Tuesday night in Charlotte, as tropical troubadour Jimmy Buffett cavorted around the stage at Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre like a kid who just saw the beach for the first time.

Read the entire review here.

The Dallas Morning News has a review of Saturday night’s Jimmy Buffett concert at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas: “Jimmy Buffet Concert At Pizza Hut Park Had Plenty To Please Parrotheads”

For a few hours Saturday night, the waves were kissing the shore and the palm trees were swaying in a soccer stadium in landlocked North Texas.

The eternal slacker-surfer-seadog Jimmy Buffett brought his Summerzcool Tour to Pizza Hut Park and allowed about 27,000 of his dedicated fans to get in touch with their inner parrots.

Fronting his 11-member Coral Reefer Band, the barefooted Buffett bounced around like a kid who had just tossed his text books and headed for the beach. His 2 ½-hour set concentrated on his classic songs while throwing in just a few less-expected numbers.

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Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band played to a sold out show in Indianapolis on Wednesday night..

Check out the set list from the show here or drop a line if you attended the show on the discussion board.

The next tour stop will be from Wrigley Field this Sunday. Check out all the dates scheduled on our Tour Dates page.

John Young of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote a review of Buffett’s show at June 26th at PNC Park.

So what was new with Buffett and band beyond the larger venue and sultry weather? Musical guest Sonny Landreth made quite the impact, adding searing slide guitar work to songs as old as “Coconut Telegraph” and as recent as the title track from Buffett’s 2004 country-ish disc “License to Chill.” (Modern country has moved closer to Buffett’s musical world than he has moved to become any more “country.”)

Read the whole article here.