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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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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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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: 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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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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A book is a big project. Like a movie, things get left behind. Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way began as a travel story. The book being released May 9 became a more traditionally structured story of a man and his song, and how they’re inextricably intertwined. But the road was fun. Here’s a deleted…
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Garden & Gun is a fantastic magazine and I feel Ok saying that because I believed Garden Gun to be a fantastic magazine before its April/May issue hit the stands with a lovely piece about the book inside and some good dogs on the cover. Forgive me this one* indulgence: … White pecked admirably around the…
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Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way will be released May 9 on Touchstone Books. The Drive-By Truckers‘ Patterson Hood says it “manages to go well beyond the mythology and legends while still giving them their just place.” When Jimmy Buffett first went to see Don Light, the man who’d become his manager and…
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If I’ve mentioned this once, I promise it’ll come up a few more times between now and May 9 when Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way is released: When I was a kid, if we took a vacation at all, it was to Florida. And we drove. Out of Michigan, across every boring mile…
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Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way is available May 9 from Touchstone Books. Peter Ames Carlin, the New York Times bestselling author of Bruce, says it “is so much more than an account of sandy-footed slacker king Jimmy Buffett. It’s also a peek into the yearning heart of overworked Americans searching for their own…
