Grew up listening to these two. The "B" side of Son of Son of a Sailor is fantastic.
Posted on 07/22/2004 6:55:32 AM PDT by presidio9
Pour another margarita for Jimmy Buffett. The famously laid-back singer, best known for his 1977 hit "Margaritaville," just landed the first No. 1 album in his 30-year career.
"Licence to Chill" sold 238,597 copies in its first week at the stores, putting it atop the Billboard Top 200 Album chart.
That's more than triple the opening-week figure of Buffett's last studio CD, 2002's "Far Side of the World." Buffett's previous highest position was No. 4 in 1996 with "Banana Wind." But that album only sold half what the new one managed in its first week.
Buffett and his fans, who call themselves Parrotheads, got a little extra help to make this happen.
A stage worth's of major country music stars appear with Buffett on "Chill." Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Clint Black, Toby Keith, George Strait and Martina McBride all sing duets with him.
Buffett is no stranger to the upper reaches of the Billboard charts. Of the 10 albums he has issued in the last decade, seven have made the top 10.
That's especially notable because Buffett has released most of these records on his own imprints, first Margaritaville, then Mailboat Records. The new album got an extra marketing push from a major label, RCA.
Like the Grateful Dead or Phish, Buffett has retained a huge audience through live summer tours that double as virutal be-ins for middle-aged party animals.
These movable Mardi Gras have pumped the Parrotheads up into a cultural phenomenon.
They also have allowed Buffett to market more than just concerts: He has live clubs, in Key West and New Orleans, as well as a clothing line.
His eternal beach bum character has proved a strong and durable enough commercial hook to make Buffett a fixture on Fortune's annual highest-earning entertainers list.
That takes me back to college...Friday afternoons at the Frat house, while the drinks flowed and volleyball was played, whilst Buffett was blasting in the background. Mem'ries....
After 23 shows (3 front and center)- I just figured I was too old and tired to keep getting drunk and singing, 'Fins'...more power to you Jimmy. Hope this one is better that 'Far Side'...
Besides being a billionare investor, Buffet puts out albums???
I'd make a cute pun using one of Buffet's lyrics, but I'm too busy watching the Tour De France.
Congratulations to Jimmy Buffet. A more unlikely cultural icon doesn't exist. He's probably as baffled by all of this as the rest of us.
Minus the weed, shrooms, acid, molly, x, heroin, coke, etc. Buffett is about DRINKING.
13 Concerts and every Buffett album in my collection here :-)
I have been a parrtohead for over 25 years, I just wish Jimmy's politics weren't so far left. He is a died in the wool envirowhacko, but he sure does make good music :-)
Grew up listening to these two. The "B" side of Son of Son of a Sailor is fantastic.
This one is WAY WAY better than that one. Very enjoyable tunes on it. And, he is much more "up" sounding that on that one. Well worth the purchase.
What middle-aged guy doesn't want to be Jimmy Buffett? Live like a beach bum in the Caribbean, fly yourself around in a classic Grumman Albatross amphibian (named the "Hemisphere Dancer," on the cover of his book "A Pirate Looks At Fifty"), play music, be worshipped by millions of Parrotheads, party your ass off, make TONS of money.
Sure beats working for a living, doesn't it?
}:-)4
Got to spend some time with Buffet back in 1979 over Christmas. Distant relatives of a young lady I was involved with.
Talented guy, but a tad arrogant. He jokes about how dumb the Cincinnati fans are.....he might have a point.....LOL!
Good deal. I'll get a copy for Christmas. And probably autographed, too. I got an autographed copy of 'Far Side' for Christmas last year. And a pick..(grin)..
And a bit of a temper, too. And I won't go into how I know that. ;-)
"Minus the weed, shrooms, acid, molly, x, heroin, coke, etc. Buffett is about DRINKING."
Based on the two shows I attended, I'd ADD the weed.
And you're right - it's heavy alcohol abuse, er, consumption at those shows. I like most of Jimmy's pre-1990 stuff, but his shows had far too many drunks to be enjoyably.
"And a bit of a temper, too. And I won't go into how I know that. ;-)"
Yep, and no problem.
"Talented guy, but a tad arrogant"
He had a place at the Muitany Bay club in Coconut Grove back in late 70's. My friends were valets and on several occasions carried Buffet's groceries to his suite. He never tipped them, but they wern't the type to hold out their hands either.
To give him credith though, I read A Pirate after 50. Based on that read it seems to me that he has mellowed and changed tremendously since his early days.
LOL. Like there's no weed smoked at a Buffet concert. That's funny.
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