The International Herald Tribune has a good article on Jimmy Buffett’s business empire: “Spotlight: Margaritaville is Jimmy Buffett’s empire”

Buffett said he owed much of his business acumen to the early days of his career, when, as a reporter for Billboard, the music magazine, he learned that a knowledge of business was a necessity for performing artists. The reason, he said, was that the music industry was not structured to meet the artist’s best interests.

He has also taken a page out of the book of another Buffett: Warren, the billionaire investor and a longtime friend. Jimmy Buffett said he valued the concept of “management in place” that he learned from watching Berkshire Hathaway: Hire competent people, then “just let them do it.”

Read the entire article here.

Time Magazine asked their readers for 10 questions to ask Jimmy Buffett. Here are a couple of them:

Q: Is it still fun? Be honest.

Read all of the questions and answers here.

The second leg of the 2007 Bama Breeze tour came to a close on Saturday night with the first ever Buffett show in Atlantic City.

View the entire set list here, along with Bamafan’s show notes.

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The next leg of the tour begins on Saturday, July 21st in Chicago, IL.

Update – The Press Of Atlantic City has a review of the show here.

USA Today’s Lifeline Live caught up with Jimmy after Thursday night’s show in Bristow, Virginia:

After a concert for 400 earlier this month in Paris – his first there, Jimmy Buffett says he’s looking to do more unusual, smaller venues just like it. “I’m going to be more adventurous,” he said. With the usual twinkle in his eye, Buffett, 60, mentioned he’s trying to line up a gig on Easter Island in the South Pacific near the big statues there.

In the wake of Hoot, his last movie which didn’t do well at the box office, Buffett says he’ll stay out of filmmaking for awhile. “It’s done too much by committee.” Instead, look for a new Buffett novel come November. The title: Swine Not, about a pig in Manhattan. In the meantime, he’ll be heading to his next “board meeting” – surfboard, that is. And don’t worry, he added, he’ll still keep his “summer job” – doing the big barefoot concerts his Parrothead fans love. “I’m not retiring.”

The 2007 Bama Breeze tour continued Thursday night at the Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Virginia. Legendary Coral Reefer Band member Greg “Fingers” Taylor made a special appearance, complementing the band on several songs.

Notable songs from the set list included “Coast of Marseilles,” “Nothing But A Breeze,” “We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About,” and “Tin Cup Chalice.”

View the entire set list here, along with Bamafan’s show notes.

Did you attend the show? Post your experience and comments on our Discussion Board and upload your photos to our Photo Gallery.

The tour continues Saturday night with a show from Atlantic City.