re: Jimmy Buffett passes at age 76

Sitting by the fire as it slowly dies, listening to Margaritaville radio playing deep cuts. I have seriously never been this sad about the passing of a celebrity or any human I didn’t know personally. It’s hard to believe… I guess this is how Elvis fans felt?

Here's my absolute favorite JB song. I need a comfy chair on a dark back porch where I can watch the sunset and drink a cold LandShark with this playing on endless repeat.

"First Look"

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"Twelve Volt Man".....acoustic live in a casual setting

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That whole Directed by Delaney series from a couple of years ago was great. Stories behind the lesser known songs, and Jimmy doing them just him and his guitar. There is one where he talks about writing The Wino and I Know sitting in the old Streetcar Named Desire just outside of Morning Call in the French Mark in NOLA.

I also remember reading something (maybe in the song notes for Boats, Beaches, Bars, and Ballads) about how he knew he wasn't going to fit in to the normal songwriting scene in Nashville. As he told it (which could have typical JB embellishments) he takes in a demo tape and the record label guy is listening to them. He gets to Captain and the Kid...listens to it, rewinds, listens some more. Stops, and tells Jimmy "This is a great song, but you need to rewrite the ending, it's too sad, the old man can't die."
Jimmy's response was simply, "But he did."

First song to come to mind:
The Captain and the Kid

Best Lyric Ever:
And across from the bar there’s a pile of beer cans
Been there twenty-seven years
Imagine all the heartaches and tears
In twenty-seven years of beer
- Ringling, Ringling

That was cool. Thanks.

My younger brother passed away at age 49 last year and the first thing I thought of when I read that JB passed was my brother. I was kind of a Parrothead in my early 20s and my brother always mimicked whatever I was doing so he became a huge JB fan. Subscribed to the Coconut Telegraph, went to his Atlanta concert every year, read JBs books, etc.. I never stopped loving his music but became less of a fanatic as I continued to expand my interests. My bro continued to be a huge fan until the day he died. He lived a sad life (quit HS, drugs and alchohol for 25 years) but JB music and concerts were always one of the things that brought him happiness. We often don’t realize those small and trivial little connections between real life issues and the power of music until the story is over and the characters have exited the stage.

The connection between JBs music and how it was one of the bright spots in my brother’s life gives me a fresh perspective on JBs impact on mine and my brothers personal connection.

I was very happy to have played on one of his latest songs called ‘My Gummy Just Kicked In’. We had a real fun session and he played me some of his new songs.
Paul McCartney – From Twitter / X, September 2, 2023

Buffett, just like Sir Paul, spends his summer in the Hamptons section of Long Island, New York. The two music legends have been friends for years, and Buffett had the McCartney’s over to his house in the town of Sag Harbor last summer for dinner.

Jimmy talked about that dinner and said, “We went to sit down and Nancy was my dinner partner and Paul was down next to [my wife] Jane at the other end of the table with like 20 people on it. And when Nancy went to sit down she kind of stumbled a little bit and I said, ‘Whoa, are you okay? You okay?‘ And she said, ‘No, no, I’m okay. My gummie just kicked in.‘ There you go. And then I said, ‘Can I have that line?‘ And then, from down at the end of the table I heard, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa Jim, Jim, what’s going on up there?‘ It was Paul and I said, ‘Stay down there. This is your wife and I working on this thing.‘”

Buffett followed through and wrote a song he titled “My Gummie Just Kicked In.” Jimmy sent it to McCartney, who loved it. Jimmy asked him if he wanted to play on it. But McCartney initially declined, saying he had too much going on. Then a couple of months ago, while McCartney was working on his new album in Los Angeles, he called Buffett.

Jimmy talked about that phone call: “He said, ‘You know, if you need somebody to play bass…’ I wanted to say, ‘Nah, I got somebody else.’ That was my first thought. going, ‘It’s okay, but…’ I got to be very honest because at times you go, ‘That’s Paul McCartney in there playing on your song.’“

They are releasing the single “My Gummy Just Kicked In” on September 8th.

Several mentions of McCartney in this thread. Paul paid Buffett quite the complimentary tribute here, and evidently sang with him on at least one song Buffett recorded for release in the near future.

McCartney tribute to Buffett--Rolling Stone article

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They are releasing the single “My Gummy Just Kicked In” on September 8th.

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They played one of JB's new songs called 'Bubbles Up' Saturday on his XM channel. A really good song

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