With the debut of ‘Life on the Flip Side’ today, Jimmy Buffett has released his first studio album since ‘Songs From St. Somewhere’ in 2013.

You can get the album now at Amazon as a Digital Download, Audio CD, or on Vinyl.

Read ABC’s review of the album here:

The 14-track “Life on the Flip Side” is no departure from what Parrotheads have come to expect — that special Gulf Coast mix of country, pop, folk and rock, topped by Buffett’s swaying voice. Few can mix steelpans, trombones and pedal steel guitar so effortlessly.

Though the songs were written before the global pandemic, the album nods to our viral troubles. Buffett writes that he’d like them to be the soundtrack as we claw our way to normalcy. Think of it as the flip side of COVID-19.

“Hopefully, the songs we wrote and recorded, will also help folks deal with the fallout,” he writes in the liner notes. “There will be a time and a place when we emerge from these troubled waters and things will change for the better.”

Buffett’s incredible ear for hooks and light grooves are often overshadowed by his lyrics about fish tacos and sunsets, but don’t underestimate his song skills. Many of these tunes are destined to be played two generations from now at sandy beach-side snack bars. Will we be wearing masks still?

Produced by two members of his longtime backing band, Michael Utley and Mac McAnally, Buffett is also clearly having fun on the new album, including the jokey ditty “Cussin’ Island” where he rhymes “hypocrite” with “Messerschmitt.”

Today Jimmy Buffett announced that the 2020 Slack Tide Tour dates that were scheduled before mid-September have been rescheduled to 2021.

Here are the new tour dates:

North Charleston Coliseum – N. Charleston SC – April 15, 2021
Coastal Credit Union Music Park – Raleigh NC – April 17, 2021
Colonial Life Arena – Columbia SC – April 22, 2021
PNC Music Pavilion – Charlotte NC – April 24, 2021
Ascend Amphitheater – Nashville TN – May 18, 2021
Ruoff Music Center – Indianapolis, IN – July 10, 2021
Riverbend Music Center – Cincinnati, OH – July 13, 2021
S&T Bank Music Park – Burgettstown, PA – July 15, 2021
Jiffy Lube Live – Bristow, VA – August 7, 2021
Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater – Wantagh, NY – August 10, 2021
BB&T Pavilion – Camden, NJ – August 12, 2021
Xfinity Center – Boston, MA – August 14, 2021
Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Morrison, CO – September 7 & 9, 2021*

The following shows could not be rescheduled and are canceled at this time:

United Center – Chicago, IL – July 18, 2020
Shoreline Amphitheatre – Mountain View, CA – September 5, 2020
Chesapeake Energy Arena – Oklahoma City, OK – October 15, 2020

The following 2020 shows are still on the schedule and have not been canceled as of now:

London Palladium – London, England – September 16th, 2020
Olympia Theatre – Dublin, Ireland – September 19th, 2020
La Cigale – Paris, France – September 24th, 2020
La Cigale – Paris, France – September 26th, 2020
Amway Center – Orland, FL – December 5th, 2020
Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena – Jacksonville, FL – December 8th, 2020
Amalie Arena – Tampa, FL – December 11th, 2020

See our tour dates page for the full updated schedule.

Fans with tickets to the rescheduled dates are encouraged to hold on to your tickets, as they will be honored at the rescheduled dates in the 2021.

If you are a ticket holder and cannot make the new date or your show has been cancelled, you will be contacted directly via email with refund options for your show. For more details, please visit www.livenation.com/refund. *For more details for Red Rocks Amphitheatre please visit
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Jimmy Buffett appeared on The Today Show this morning:

Jimmy Buffett tells Hoda and Jenna about his new album “Life on the Flip Side.” Plus, he surprises a deserving health care worker who left her family to help coronavirus patients in New York City with a trip to one of his Margaritaville Resorts.

Watch the appearance here.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefers are again rescheduling their early season shows that have been moved once already. Shows that were set for June in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee will now take place in September and October. Unfortunately the Texas shows were unable to be rescheduled and are now canceled.

The new 2020 Slack Tide Tour Dates:

Nashville, TN
Ascend Amphitheater
Monday, September 14, 2020

N. Charleston, SC
North Charleston Coliseum
Thursday, October 1st, 2020

Charlotte, NC
PNC Music Pavilion
Saturday, October 3rd, 2020

Columbia, SC
Colonial Life Arena
Thursday, October 8th, 2020

Raleigh, NC
Coastal Credit Union Music Park
Saturday, October 10th, 2020

The following shows are the ones that were unable to be rescheduled and will not occur this year:

San Antonio, TX
AT&T Center
Friday, June 19th, 2020

Dallas, TX
Dos Equis Pavilion
Sunday, June 21, 2020

Houston, TX
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Saturday, June 27th, 2020

If you have tickets to the Carolina and Tennessee shows, your tickets will be honored for the new dates. If you are unable to make one of the new dates or if you had tickets for a Texas show, you should receive an email with refund information.

See the 2020 Slack Tide Tour Dates here.

You’ve most certainly never heard it, but are you aware of the Jimmy Buffett song “We’ve Been Taken to the Cleaners” that was supposedly scrapped from the 1976 album Havana Daydreamin’? Friend of BuffettWorld Calen Sifferman examines the mystery behind the song with no known copy out there in his YouTube series Mysterious Music.

The Buffett segment starts around the 3:30 mark.