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Choose Rare Songs for Jimmy to Play on Tour

May 26th, 2016


Do you have a favorite Jimmy Buffett song that you haven’t heard him perform live in years? Now is your chance to tell him! Jimmy’s people have compiled a list of songs that he hasn’t played in over 10 years. Simply select your favorite 5, and they will randomly choose one of the top-voted songs for Jimmy to play each night on tour!


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Buffett Starts Off New Tour in Austin

May 24th, 2016


Jimmy Buffett kicked off his new I Don’t Know Tour on Monday night in Austin, Texas as part of Austin City Limits Live.

There were a few rare songs played (see set list below).

From the Austin Chronicle:

Five consecutive years of summer tour warm-ups in Austin during May yielded a first at the Moody Theater Monday: Jimmy Buffett wore a blazer.

“Manuel’s [American Designs] in Nashville,” announced the cult leader two tunes into a nearly two-hour, 21-song set last night at the home of Austin City Limits, while stroking a lapel. “This was on a mannequin.”

For starters, the bandleader of 11 group members began the show with an extended rap about some eight years of tour fine-tuning in the capital city. (Wait, and only five shows!?) Paying tribute to his local mentor Jerry Jeff Walker, who opens his Frisco show on Saturday in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, Willie Nelson’s statue out front (“Since he’s still alive, I wonder how Willie feels about that”), and Austin itself, Buffett uncharacteristically went on at length before ever playing a note.

In fact, the fiesta got off to a slow start. The frontman explained that this year’s I Don’t Know tour sought to revive songs the traveling tiki carnival hadn’t performed in a decade or more. “Presents to Send You,” “Migration,” “Cowboy in the Jungle”? No such luck. Instead, nostalgia only went back as far as 2009 and 1996 respectively on the one-two of openers “Summerzcool” and “Only Time Will Tell.”

Before long, however, the band was functioning at 80-proof, Floridays’ “Meet Me in Memphis” cruising its namesake’s Beale Street, and tour moniker “I Don’t Know (Spicoli’s Theme)” reviving 1982 teen film yuks Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Who recalls that the first name of Sean Penn’s titular stoner was Jeff? For “Margaritaville,” the host welcomed Hollywood mega-producer Frank Marshall onstage to play guitar and sing harmonies with second lieutenant Mac McAnally.

McAnally’s solo turn on the only song Duane Allman wrote by himself, instrumental “Little Martha,” segued the band out of Caribbean bar band mode – congas, steel drums, trumpet, back-up singers – into a bluegrass cluster at one end of the wide stage. Six string-benders, from mandolin to Temple native Doyle Grisham’s acoustic slide, and one accordionist picked as Buffett sang to the lords of Easter Island (“Delaney Talks to Statues”) and then honored his onetime neighbor Glenn Frey with their co-write “Gypsies in the Palace,” about a friend of theirs who impersonated the the king parrothead in order to stuff a couple of girls into the singer’s Porsche, which ended up in a creek.

Read more about the show at Austin Chronicle.

1. Summerzcool
2. Only Time Will Tell
3. Volcano
4. Meet Me in Memphis
5. Pencil Thin Mustache
6. Son of a Son of a Sailor
7. Come Monday
8. Cheeseburger in Paradise
9. I Don’t Know (Spicoli’s Theme)
10. Changes in Attitudes, Changes in Latitudes
11. Margaritaville
12. Fins
13. Little Martha
14. Delaney Talks to Statues
15. Gypsies in the Palace
16. Take It Easy
17. Barometer Soup
18. It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
19. A Pirate Looks at 40
20. Southern Cross

Encore (solo acoustic)

21. Railroad Lady


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Watch Jimmy Tonight on ABC’s New Year’s Eve Show

December 31st, 2015


While you’re ringing in the new year, be sure to set your television to ABC to catch a portion of Jimmy Buffett’s show from the Barclays Center in New York City. During the Dick Clark New Year’s Rockin’ Eve show, host Ryan Seacrest will cut to Buffett’s show for the performance of “Margaritaville.”

The full show will be broadcast on Margaritaville TV and on Radio Margaritaville. The pre-show begins around 10:00pm EST.

Tonight’s show will mark the first time that Jimmy has performed in New York City on New Year’s Eve..

Happy New Year!


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Fall Tour Leg Wraps Up In California

October 26th, 2015


With a swing out west, Jimmy Buffett wrapped up the fall leg of the 2015 Workin’ N’ Playin’ Tour.

View the set lists from the October shows:

View the set list for any show from 2015 or previous years in the Shows & Set Lists Archive.

Only one show remains in 2015: a New Years Eve concert in New York City. Get tickets now!


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Fall Tour Leg Kicks Off Tonight in SoCal

October 15th, 2015


Jimmy Buffett takes the Workin’ N’ Playin’ Tour out west for the first of five shows in October.

Buffett and the Coral Reefers will play the Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara, California tonight at 7pm PDT. You can listen to the show live on Radio Margaritaville.

Here’s a look at the remaining shows for 2015:

  • 10.17.15 – Las Vegas, NV
  • 10.20.15 – Albuquerque, NM
  • 10.22.15 – Los Angeles, CA
  • 10.24.15 – Irvine, CA
  • 12.31.15 – New York, NY

There is still time to get tickets to see Jimmy at his remaining shows this year. Browse tickets now at Ticketmaster.


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