Category: on the road again
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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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Deleted scenes: Down around Biloxi
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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Deleted Scenes: Walking through New Orleans
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 […]
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This fantastic photo
Spent an enjoyable afternoon in Nashville a few weeks ago wandering about the Country Music Hall of Fame. Spent an especially nice hour or so checking out Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City. Of that hour, a good 15 minutes might have been enjoyed in front of this photo. You know two […]