Well, the last two weeks I featured songs to do with the beach and I gotta do just one more. Last Saturday night Jimmy Buffett kicked off his Welcome to Fin Land tour in Tampa Bay and sadly, I missed him. I've seen Jimmy in concert a few times and let me tell ya, if you've never seen him or attended one of his shows then you don't know what your missing. People arrive early by the thousands at the stadium where he happens to be playing and the parking lot is one big happy get together. People set up beaches, tiki bars and everything else you could imagine. People are there in boats, trucks, cars, buses and whatever else they can drag there. Jimmy's music appeals to a lot of people and he got famous by living and singing about the beaches of Florida and the Caribbean. He made Key West what it is today! I talked about Jimmy last year on here and was joking about whether he would have the same appeal with his fans if he was from and singing about somewhere out in the Midwest but the truth is I love the guys music. Those Caribbean steel drums playing along with Jimmy's guitar makes a magical sound. Turn on some Jimmy Buffett and instantly be transported to a white, sandy beach somewhere located "Southeast of Disorder". Island Time is slow time. No where to be time. No where you gotta go time. Old Jimmy's released around 27 albums to date with countless other live and speciality albums. His popular song list is about a mile long and he makes sure he performs ALOT of those popular classics. One of my favorite Buffett songs is the one for tonight's video A Pirate Looks At Forty. That song was off his fifth album titled A1A. It dates all the way back to 1974 so it certainly qualifies as Old Skool. I would be willing to bet that Jimmy has probably played this song thousands of times but guess what, it never gets old. It strikes a cord with us "older fans" as we all at sometime have looked back at our life and wondered what if I had done this or that differently. This particular version I'm showing is the video of Jimmy performing the song for his 2007 album release Live from Anguilla. From 1974 its A Pirate Looks At Forty. Enjoy!
rly by the thousands at the stadium where he happens to be playing and the parking lot is one big happy get together. People set up beaches, tiki bars and everything else you could imagine. People are there in boats, trucks, cars, buses and whatever else they can drag there. Jimmy's music appeals to a lot of people and he got famous by living and singing about the beaches of Florida and the Caribbean. He made Key West what it is today! I talked about Jimmy last year on here and was joking about whether he would have the same appeal with his fans if he was from and singing about somewhere out in the Midwest but the truth is I love the guys music. Those Caribbean steel drums playing along with Jimmy's guitar makes a magical sound. Turn on some Jimmy Buffett and instantly be transported to a white, sandy beach somewhere located "Southeast of Disorder". Island Time is slow time. No where to be time. No where you gotta go time. Old Jimmy's released around 27 albums to date with countless other live and speciality albums. His popular song list is about a mile long and he makes sure he performs ALOT of those popular classics. One of my favorite Buffett songs is the one for tonight's video A Pirate Looks At Forty. That song was off
his fifth album titled A1A. It dates all the way back to 1974 so it certainly qualifies as Old Skool. I would be willing to bet that Jimmy has probably played this song thousands of times but guess what, it never gets old. It strikes a cord with us "older fans" as we all at sometime have looked back at our life and wondered what if I had done this or that differently. This particular version I'm showing is the video of Jimmy performing the song for his 2007 album release Live from Anguilla. From 1974 its A Pirate Looks At Forty. Enjoy!
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