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Some additional photos from the show on Monday April 21st at at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Woodlands, TX are now available in our Photo Gallery.

Thanks to LeAnn for passing along the shots from the first row behind the pit.

From Margaritaville.com: Freddy & the Fishsticks live at the Margaritaville Cafe of New Orleans benefitting BORN (Better Opportunities Right Now) and NOAAHH(New Orleans Artists Against Hunger & Homelessness).

Freddy and the Fishsticks (along with special guests!), will make a rare appearance for a benefit concert at the Margaritaville Cafe’ of New Orleans on Thursday, May 1st. Doors open at 8pm, and the concert starts at 8:30pm. This is a 21+ show, and while there will be no food available, all your favorite boat drinks and frosty beverages will be served.

A very limited number of tickets for this special benefit concert are $200 each, and go on sale Friday, April 25th at 10am Central Time. To purchase, visit Blacktie-Louisiana.com. Maximum purchase is 4 tickets per person.

Margaritaville Cafe’ of New Orleans
1104 Decatur Street
New Orleans, LA 70116

(Thanks to catsway for posting the info under ‘Tour Dates and Rumors’!)

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band will be adding two shows in Las Vegas to the 2008 tour. Tickets for both shows go on sale on Monday April 28th. Ticket prices: US $69.25 – US $211.00.

October 18, 2008 – MGM Grand – Las Vegas, NV
October 25, 2008 – MGM Grand – Las Vegas, NV

Update – LiveDaily has an article on the recently announced dates: “Jimmy Buffett adds Jones Beach date, two Vegas shows“

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band kicked off the 2008 “The Year of Still Here” tour last night at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Woodlands, TX.

Jimmy began the show with the song “Homemade Music” (from the album “Hot Water” released back in 1988). The show included the world debut of a new song called “We’re Still Here”. Jimmy also performed the song “Gulf Coast Highway” for the first time since 1992 with Evangeline (thanks to Bryan for the correction).

The Set List from the show along with comments from those who listened are now available.

Some of the highlights from the show included:

“Homemade Music” (last played 6/30/89 Auburn Hills, MI)
“Mexico” (last played 10/27/05 Portland, OR)
“Miss You So Badly” (last played 11/20/99 East Hampton, NY)
“Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season”
“We’re Still Here” (World Debut)
“Gulf Coast Highway” (last performed in 1992 with Evangeline)
“Makin Music For Money” ~ with Nadirah (last played 8/25/1995 Great Woods)
“Far Side of the World” (last played 5/20/2004 Minneapolis MN)

If you went to the show and have some photos from the concert, please post them in the Photo Gallery or email them to info@buffettnews.com

Jimmy Buffett is mentioned in todays New York Post: “Liquid Motive”

Action icon Harrison Ford is tough, but he still needed a few drinks before piercing his ear. Ford, who became a household name playing Han Solo and Indiana Jones, tells Maxim that, “A semi-drunken lunch with Ed Bradley and Jimmy Buffett, who were both wearing earrings,” is what inspired him to get pierced. “Afterward, I walked down Madison Avenue till I found the first jewelry store that pierced ears.”

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band kick of the 2008 “The Year of Still Here” tour tonight at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Woodlands, TX. Jimmy and the band have been rehearsing several songs for the show in Austin TX. A new song that originally was going to be on the album “Take The Weather With You” and will be played sometime during the first couple of shows of the new tour.

Listen to the show live on Radio Margaritaville or SIRIUS Satellite Radio 31 and help us out with the Set List.

Calypso Rose, the Heart and Soul of the Caribbean
On the Time After Island Time show
Produced by Paul Leslie, Jeff Pike, and Heather Dee Perry

We keep the Calypso party going on the Time After Island Time show and are pleased to welcome the undisputed Queen of Calypso, Calypso Rose. Calypso Rose hails from Tobago and started composing songs from the age of 15, and has written over 800 songs to date. Her songs have been covered all over the world in many languages, including by American star Bonnie Raitt. Her immortal song, “Fire in Me Wire,” has gone down in history as a Calypso Anthem.

Her credits are numerous, but you can tell her appeal is in her lovable nature. While catching up with us after a rehearsal in the Virgin Islands, she shared with us the story of her life, where through Calypso music she has seen the world and accomplished more than anyone could ever imagine. This interview shows her bountiful enthusiasm for life, her sense of humor and she even sang to us.

Tune into Time After Island Time from anywhere in the world on Radio JimmyDreamz!
www.radio.jimmydreamz.com

Monday – 3:00 PM – March 31, 2008
Wednesdays – 9:00 AM – April 2, 2008
Thursdays – MIDNIGHT – April 3, 2008
Saturday – 8:00 PM – April 5, 2008
*All Broadcasts are Eastern Time*

TAIT Info at www.timeafterislandtime.blogspot.com

Sonny Landreth’s new album “From the Reach” will be released on May 20, 2008. Jimmy Buffett appears on one track called “Howlin’ Moon”. The new album is now available for pre-order at Amazon.com

From GuitarJam:

In addition to his fan favorites, Sonny performed several songs from his eagerly-awaited CD, From the Reach, which is scheduled for release on May 20. “Blue Tarp Blues”, “Storm of Worry”, “Howlin Moon”, “When I Still Had You”, and “Ubresso” offer tangible evidence that the new CD will be amazing. On the CD, Sonny is joined by a litany of Landreth friends and music greats such as Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Robben Ford, Eric Johnson, Vince Gill, Nadirah Shakoor, and Jimmy Buffett.

From Modern Guitars Magazine:

In one of two delightful changes of pace to the album’s six-string focus, Dr. John brings the requisite gris-gris to “Howlin’ Moon” with his trademark rollicking piano and harmonies, and he’s joined on the track by Jimmy Buffett. “Although the idea of the record was playing with my guitar heroes, I wanted to open to the unexpected as well,” Landreth explains. “I’d written ‘Howlin’ Moon’ a long time ago and I’d always had Dr. John in mind for it. Then we took it a step further with Jimmy’s vocal and the vibe was perfect.”

Sonny Landreth is scheduled to perform at the following Jimmy Buffett shows:
4/21/2008 – The Woodlands, TX
6/07/2008 – Raleigh, NC
6/14/2008 – Philadelphia, PA

Steve Huntington announced today on Radio Margaritaville during the Margaritaville Cafe Happy Hour live: Jazz Fest Weekend featuring Freddy and the Fishsticks at the Margaritaville Cafe, Decatur Street (French Quarter), New Orleans, LA on Thursday May 1st. Showtime: 9:30pm – tickets will be sold online, with no further info yet. The tickets will sell for $200.00 each with funds going to various charities. Jimmy and a smaller combo have performed under the moniker at various small venue shows in the past.

STL Today has an article on Peter Mayer, Jim Mayer and Roger Guth: “Former St. Louisan backs up Jimmy Buffett, keeps own career going”

“We walked out on stage for the first time, and it looked like a Fellini casting call,” says former St. Louisan Peter Mayer, lead guitarist for Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band since 1989. “I mean, it was strange costumes. You had lawyers in parrot outfits and doctors with shark fins on their heads. And of course, we were dressed in kind of late ’80s, early ’90s garb from the Thompson Twins to Peter Gabriel.”

“We” refers to Mayer and the Coral Reefer rhythm section: fellow former St. Louisans Jim Mayer (bass) and Roger Guth (drums). Jim, Peter Mayer’s brother, reports on Buffett’s margaritaville.com website that he almost couldn’t play that first show in San Diego because he was laughing so hard at “a giant conga line wearing enough grass skirts to cover the set of South Pacific.”

The three will be back with the rest of the Coral Reefer Band on Thursday night at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, when Buffett appears here for the first time in eight years on the aptly named “Year of Still Here” tour. St. Louis is the second stop on the tour.

For the Mayer brothers and Guth, who were a Warner Bros. recording act called PM, the Parrothead phenomenon was a surprise even after they were first hired to play on Buffett’s 1989 album, “Off to See the Lizard.”

”We knew who Jimmy Buffett was, but we had no idea how popular he was or what kind of crowd came to the shows,” Peter Mayer said by phone a couple of weeks ago before appearing with his band at Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room. ”And he had actually instructed his crew not to tell us what was going on.”

Rehearsals have been going on the past few days for Jimmy Buffett’s upcoming “The Year of Still Here” 2008 tour. Radio Margaritaville DJ Kirsten has been periodically calling into the station with updates from the rehearsals. Jimmy and the Coral Reefer Band have been rehearsing in an unspecified location.

Kirsten named a few of the songs that she has heard during the rehearsals:
Migration
Landfall
Ragtop Day
Homemade Music
Tiki Bar is Open
Fruitcakes
Cowboy in the Jungle
Rainy Day Women #12 and 35
Stars on the Water
Mexico
Gulf Coast Highway

The Sulphur Springs News-Telegram has an interview with ukulele player Jake: “Jake Shimabukuro: Lessons taught and learned”

For the audience, the most important lesson Jake teaches is an appreciation for the beauty and simplicity of the ukulele.

“The ukulele is an instrument for everyone,” he says. “That’s one of its many charms.”

Jake doesn’t mind one bit that most people associate the traditional four-stringed instrument from Hawaii with pop artists like Tiny Tim or vaudevillian Rudy Valee.

“The best thing about it all is that everyone comes to the shows with such low expectations,” he says with a laugh. “It takes all the pressure off.”