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Garden & Gun says ‘Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way’ sings
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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One from the Road: Jason Isbell, Jimmy Buffett and that Nashville Sound
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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The ‘Waste Away’ jokes abide
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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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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On an island afternoon talking Buffett and magic with Tim Glancey
I met Tim Glancey with a tap on the shoulder. His tap, my shoulder. I was leaning on a palm tree outside Capt. Tony’s Saloon watching a couple of women try to throw coins over their shoulders and land those coins in the mouth of the fish hanging over Capt. Tony’s door. I’d landed in […]
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Hayes Carll, Tom Corcoran, Peter Ames Carlin and Patterson Hood walk into a blurb
This? It’s one big thank you note. But it’s also about this: Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way, the story of how Jimmy Buffett made Margaritaville, and how Margaritaville made Jimmy Buffett. Due May 9 from Touchstone Books. You can preorder at Powell’s or Amazon. The way Hayes Carll describes it, Crystal Beach, Texas was a little like Margaritaville. […]
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They say it’s National Escape Day
Margaritaville’s various social media feeds have alerted me to the fact that today is National Escape Day. If ever a nation needed an escape day, today is probably the day. Until tomorrow. In the spirit of elsewhere and faraway, here’s a throwback all the way back to December 1976. Jimmy Buffett was interviewed in the […]
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One from the road: Mobile, Ala.
Have you been reading the news? I’ve been reading the news. Anyway, here’s a photo of folly chasing death in an old cemetery in Mobile, Ala. where a man whose story blends fact, fiction and fun is buried. His name is Joe Cain. He features in Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way, out May […]
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40 Years ago, just before ‘Margaritaville’ came to life … it was COLD
Forty years ago, as Washington D.C. prepared to welcome President Jimmy Carter, jackhammers were employed to chip ice from the parade route. Republican senator Ted Stevens invited the president-elect to move the inaugural festivities to his home state of Alaska, where it was warmer than in the nation’s capital. But the weather sucked everywhere — […]
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It’s almost a book
Two photos taken 364 days apart. On the left, the first blank page of a book as I sat down to begin writing exactly one year ago, on Jan. 4, 2016. On the right, that book–almost finished–on the far end of the year and as it arrived yesterday in the mail from the good folks […]
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