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Jimmy Buffett (born James William Buffett on December 25 1946 in Pascagoula, Mississippi) is a singer, songwriter, and recently a film producer best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" (No. 234 on the list of "Songs of the Century"), and "Come Monday." He has a devoted base of fans known as "Parrotheads". His band is known as the Coral Reefer Band. Aside from his career in music, Buffett is also a best selling writer and is involved in two restaurant chains named after some of his best known songs, "Cheeseburger in Paradise" and "Margaritaville". He owns the Margaritaville Cafe restaurant chain and co-developed the Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant concept with OSI Restaurant Partners (parent of Outback Steakhouse) who operate the chain under a licensing agreement with Mr. Buffett.
Early lifeThe son of James Delaney "J.D." Buffett Jr. and Mary Loraine "Peets" Buffett, Buffett grew up along the eastern shore of Mobile Bay[1]. He graduated high school from McGill Institute for Boys (now McGill-Toolen Catholic High School) in Mobile, Alabama in 1964. He began playing guitar during his college years at Auburn University and The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he received a bachelor's degree in history in 1969. Although a pledge of Sigma Pi (ΣΠ) at Auburn, he was initiated into the fraternity Kappa Sigma (ΚΣ) at the University of Southern Mississippi. He later married his first wife, Margie Washichek, at Spring Hill College in Mobile. After graduating from college, Buffett worked as a correspondent for Billboard Magazine in Nashville. CareerBuffett began his musical career in Nashville,Tennessee during the late 1960s as a country artist and recorded his first album, the folk rock Down to Earth, in 1970. During this time Buffett could be frequently found busking for tourists in New Orleans. Country music singer Jerry Jeff Walker took him to Key West on a busking expedition. Buffett then moved to Key West and began establishing the easy-going beach bum persona for which he is known. Buffett's third album was the 1973 A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean. Havana Daydreamin' appeared in 1976, followed by 1977's Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, which featured the breakthrough hit song "Margaritaville".
Two of the more out-of-character albums were Christmas Island, a collection of holiday songs, and Parakeets, a collection of Buffett songs sung by children and containing "cleaned-up" lyrics (like "a cold root beer" instead of "a cold draft beer"). In 1997, Buffett collaborated with novelist Herman Wouk to create a short-lived musical based on Wouk's novel, Don't Stop the Carnival. Broadway showed little interest in the play, so it instead ran for six weeks in Miami. He released the soundtrack for the musical in 1998. In 2003, he partnered in a partial duet with Alan Jackson for the song "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere," a number one hit on the country charts. Buffett's album, License to Chill, released on July 13 2004, sold 238,600 copies in its first week of release according to Nielsen SoundScan. With this, Buffett topped the U.S. pop albums chart for the first time in his three-decade career. Buffett continues to tour throughout the year although he has shifted recently to a more relaxed schedule of around 20-30 dates, and rarely on back-to-back nights, preferring to play only on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, thus the title of his 1999 live album Buffett Live — Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays. Purchasing tickets is difficult with most of his concerts selling out in minutes. Buffett owns or licenses the Margaritaville Cafe and Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant chains. He loves baseball and was part-owner of two minor league teams: the Fort Myers Miracle and the Madison Black Wolf. Between his restaurants, album sales, and tours, he earns an estimated $100 million a year. In 2006, Buffett planned a cooperative project with the Anheuser-Busch brewing company to produce his own beer under the Margaritaville Brewing label called Land Shark Lager. The label of the beer bottle will most likely feature a shark fin. The seaplane airport at the Orlando Margaritaville Cafe is also called Lone Palm. In June of 2006, Buffett produced, soundtracked (5 songs), and had a small role in the New Line family film Hoot, directed by Wil Shriner and based on the book by Carl Hiassen. While not a big hit, Hoot was a critical success and garnered an award from the Film Advisory Board. In August 2006, he released "Bama Breeze," the first track on the album Take The Weather With You. The Bama Breeze is a fictional tavern (the physical location actually being Lulu's, in Gulf Shores, AL., which is the bar owned by his sister, Lucy Buffett ) symbolic of all the hometown bars destroyed in Alabama during Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Another song on the album, "Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On," refers to 2005's Hurricane Katrina. He pays tribute to Merle Haggard with his rendition of "Silver Wings" and collaborates with Mark Knopfler in the track, "Whoop De Doo." Tours
ConcertsSetlist StructureBuffett and the Coral Reefer Band are notorious for their concerts. Most shows consists of 27-30 songs, an intermission usually after the 12th to 14th song, and two separate encores. A few tours, (notably Banana Wind '96, License to Chill '04 and Party at the End of the World '06) Buffett opened the show with two to three acoustic songs. The Great Filling Station Holdup and Pencil Thin Mustache are common acoustic openers, as well as Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes and The Wino and I Know in recent years. With the exception of Fruitcakes '94 and License to Chill '04, Come Monday is usually played during the first set of the show. Usually, after 12 to 14 songs, a 20-minute intermission is taken while a video plays for the fans. The first part of the second set usually consists of slower songs. There has never been a tour where A Pirate Looks At Forty hasn't been played during the second set. The first encore usually consists of two songs. After the first song, Buffett introduces the band, and then they segue into the second song. The second encore usually consists of one acoustic ballad. A Pirate Looks At Forty is a typical closer at shows, however, Buffett sometimes takes the opportunity to choose a more obscure song to perform (He Went to Paris, Defying Gravity, Nautical Wheelers, Tin Cup Chalice, Twelve Volt Man, etc.) Fins, mostly performed during the first encore in recent years, is always preluded by the Jaws Theme Song as a teaser, which gets the fans pumped. Buffett calls out to the Parrotheads, or "land-sharks", to get their "fins up"! The fans raise their hands in the air, in the manner of an upper fin, and wave it left and right. Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes usually has a video of local parrotheads in the arena/venue parking lot playing over its performance. Why Don't We Get Drunk is sometimes performed in a different style (Tiki Time '03 Hawaiian style, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays '00 performed karaoke style, Banana Wind '96 audience members selected to perform, and Jimmy Jump Up '90 performed sing-along style). One Particular Harbour is played for women and men wearing hula-skirts. It's Five O'Clock Somewhere is performed with Mac McAnally taking Alan Jackson's place. The band will also often throw in references to and skits about the actual venue they're playing to please home town fans. As an example, when Buffett and the Coral Reefers performed at Fenway Park, Boston, in September 2004, they added a performance of Take Me Out To The Ball Game featuring Dr. Charles Steinberg on organ, segued Why Don't We Get Drunk into Red Sox favourite Sweet Caroline, and attempted to reverse the Curse of the Bambino (some even claim they were successful). "The Big 8" & Standard SongsSongs played at every Buffett show were known as the Big 8. With the success of the Alan Jackson duet "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere", the list of songs played at every show have now gone from 8 to 10. The original "Big 8", though unspecified, are most likely:
The new standard is "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere", to complement the old standard of Why Don't We Get Drunk (and Screw). This list doesn't necessarily mean that those songs have been played at every show. "A Pirate Looks at Forty" was not played during the Gorge, WA '92 show. "Cheeseburger in Paradise" was excluded from two setlists during the 1998 tour. "Why Don't We Get Drunk" wasn't played in Hawaii in 2005. "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" did not appear during the opening Tiki Time '03 show in Houston. "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" was omitted from one of the Irvine shows in 2006. The archives show that only four ("Margaritaville", "Come Monday", "Fins" and "Volcano") songs have been played at every show since the song's debut. Six songs, the four standards plus "One Particular Harbour" and "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere", have appeared on every live album since their own debut. WritingBuffett has written 3 No. 1 best sellers. Tales from Margaritaville and Where Is Joe Merchant? both spent over seven months on the New York Times Best Seller fiction list. His book A Pirate Looks At Fifty went straight to No. 1 on the New York Times Bestseller non-fiction list, making him one of seven authors in that list's history to have reached No. 1 on both the fiction and non-fiction lists. The other six authors who have accomplished this are Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Styron, Irving Wallace, Dr. Seuss and Mitch Albom. Buffett also co-wrote two children's books, The Jolly Mon and Trouble Dolls, with his eldest daughter, Savannah Jane Buffett. The original hard cover release of the The Jolly Mon included a cassette tape recording of he and Savannah Jane reading the story accompanied by an original score written by Michael Utley. His most recent book, A Salty Piece of Land, was released on November 30, 2004, and included a CD single of the same title. The book was a New York Times best seller soon after its release. Currently, Amazon.com lists a fourth title from Buffett, Swine Not?, to be released in November 2007. Trademark litigation with UnderOneHut.comJimmy Buffett filed a lawsuit against UnderOneHut.com in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas on November 13 2006. Jimmy Buffett's attorneys sought to prevent UnderOneHut.com from selling Jimmy Buffett merchandise claiming they had not granted permission for such sales. The case against UnderOneHut.com made worldwide headlines appearing in over 200 media sources. It was ultimately settled out of court.[2] Trivia
Drug searchOn October 6, 2006, it was reported that Buffett had been detained by French custom officials in Saint Tropez for allegedly carrying over 100 pills of Ecstasy.[3][4][5] Buffett’s luggage was searched after his Dassault Falcon 900 private jet landed at Toulon-Hyères International Airport. He paid a fine of $300 and was released. A spokesperson for Buffett stated the pills in question were prescription drugs, but declined to name the drug or the health problem he was being treated for. Buffett released a statement that the "Ecstasy" was in fact, a Vitamin B supplement known as Foltx [6] Discography
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