Sean Payton, the head coach of the New Orleans Saints, will interview Jimmy Buffett on Wednesday:

New Orleans Saints Head Coach Sean Payton interviewed musician, songwriter, author and longtime Saints fan Jimmy Buffett for a piece that will air Wednesday, April 15 at 12:00 p.m. CT on “#HomeTeamTV”, the club’s daily content series for fans during the governmental stay-at-home order.

The Payton-Buffett interview will be part of #HomeTeamTV’s weekly “Wildcard Wednesdays” segment, presented by Entergy. The episode will be available on NewOrleansSaints.com and the Saints app, as well as official Saints social channels.

Payton, the winningest coach in Saints history and Buffett, who has put out 27 top-charting studio albums, New York Times bestselling books, a Broadway play and has made numerous movie and television appearances, while standing the test of time in numerous sold-out world tours, have enjoyed a long friendship. While Buffett was a longtime Saints fan as a native of Pascagoula, Miss. and having grown up in Mobile, Al., he and Payton became familiar in the head coach’s first season in New Orleans, when he guided the Black and Gold to the NFC Championship. That bond has only solidified as the Saints’ fortunes have risen under Payton, with the Saints qualifying for the playoffs eight times, winning six division titles, appearing in three NFC Championships and winning Super Bowl XLIV. Buffett is often a guest on the Saints sidelines at contests at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome and has performed the national anthem multiple times.

Payton and Buffett will touch on multiple topics during the interview. Among them, the two will talk about the beginning of their long friendship, the mutual respect and admiration for each other’s professions, the ties between football and music, the Saints’ prospects for the upcoming season, as well as catching up on Buffett’s latest entertainment projects.

You’ll be able to watch at neworleanssaints.com on Wednesday at 12:00pm CT.

Jimmy Buffett’s new album Life on the Flip Side will be released on May 8th and you can pre-order it now through Amazon or Mailboat Records.

Track Listing:

1) Down at the Lah De Dah
2) Who Gets To Live Like This
3) The Devil I Know
4) The Slow Lane
5) Cussin’ Island
6) Oceans of Time
7) Hey, That’s My Wave
8) The World Is What You Make It
9) Half Drunk
10) Mailbox Money
11) Slack Tide
12) Live, Like It’s Your Last Day
13) 15 Cuban Minutes
14) Book On The Shelf

Details from Mailboat Records:

60 page booklet featuring exclusive content including lyrics, special photos from Jimmy’s collection, his stories behind the songs, and more!

Pre-Order comes with a digital download of first track, “Down at the Lah De Dah!”

A copy of Life on the Flip Side is included with every concert ticket purchased online for the Slack Tide 2020 tour. If you purchased tickets, you should receive an email soon with information on how to redeem your copy. This offer is not valid on tickets purchased through reselling sites or on the secondary market.

Jimmy Buffett’s good friend Bill Withers passed away this week and Jimmy recorded a tribute to him on Instagram. Watch the emotional video below:

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SongFacts.com has an interview with Caroline Jones where she discusses what it is like going on tour with Jimmy Buffett:

Songfacts: What’s it like being on tour with Jimmy Buffett?

Jones: It’s really, really fun. It’s a whole culture and a whole lifestyle in itself. In the beginning it was something to get used to because I hadn’t seen it before, but the Parrot Heads are just such a special, unique group of people and it’s so interesting because they’re all walks of life with all different jobs – doctors and lawyers by day and then at night they put a parrot on their head and have a margarita in their hand and are wearing a Hawaiian shirt and flip-flops.

Something that touring with Jimmy taught me is the value of a shared value system, and also imagination. Being able to imagine yourself in his song in a place where you have no responsibilities and no burdens and no cold weather and you’re just living free and unburdened. That emotion through music is so powerful for people that they spend their hard-earned money to go to that show and feel those feelings. It’s really powerful and really special. It’s the power of art and music, and Jimmy has tapped into that very authentically because that’s what he loves. He changes people’s lives. He inspires them through that.

Songfacts: Can you elaborate on “shared value system”?

Read the full interview at SongFacts.com.

Radio Margaritaville will air the first song off Jimmy Buffett’s upcoming album this weekend. Tune in to hear “Down at the Lah De Dah”!

Tune into @radiomville on @SIRIUSXM this weekend to hear the full version of ‘Down at the Lah De Dah’ – the first song off the new album. Let us know if you like seeing this early… we’ll sneak peek some more! pic.twitter.com/Z5RrUKoclx

— Jimmy Buffett (@jimmybuffett) March 28, 2020