Month: April 2017
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A Good Life All the Way: A Playlist, Part II
When we ended Playlist the First, “Margaritaville” was about to be released. That covers roughly the first half of Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way, out May 9 from Touchstone. In the next week or two I’ll knock out some Buffett playlists, but these are Buffett free. These are the songs you’ll find tucked […]
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‘Get Off on … A1A’ and the early struggle to sell Jimmy Buffett to the world
Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way will be out May 9 on Touchstone Books. It’s about Jimmy Buffett and Margaritaville and the way time passes and the world changes. It’s about middle class yearning and the dream of something more beyond the Bed, Bath & Beyond. Among other things. So the thing you hear […]
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A lunch date with Lip Balm (Or: The time Buffett signed a dog)
Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way will be released May 9 by Touchstone Books. Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers says it “manages to go well beyond the mythology and legends while still giving them their just place in the grand design. An excellent read.” The day I had lunch with Bob Liberman, I […]
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A Good Life All the Way: A Playlist, Part I
Today’s Tuesday, April 11. That means you’ve got six days to get your taxes done, and in exactly four weeks, Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way will be released. I’ll be updating this space with much more regularity, sharing a few stories, a few more deleted scenes and music. There’s a lot of music […]
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Jimmy Buffett, Harrison Ford and the Margaritaville movie that almost was
Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way is out May 9 on Touchstone Books. So there was Jimmy Buffett, on Instagram doing Jimmy Buffett things — flying, surfing, singing and recreating in tropics. For example, there’s the hero of our story, hard at work on a catamaran in Fiji. What’s he working on? The upcoming Escape […]
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Deleted scenes: Las Vegas, Margaritaville and regulatory responsibility
Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way will be released May 9 on Touchstone Books. It’s the story of the little song that became a big brand, and the man who sang it all into existence. Garden & Gun magazine says it’s “buoyant” and “sings.” What follows isn’t in the book. This got cut, along with the […]
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