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From Lulu’s at Homeport: Lucy “Lulu” Buffett will be a guest on The Today Show on July 28th. She will be talking about her cookbook: “Crazy Sista Cooking“

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band brought The Year of Still Here Tour to the Madison Square Garden in New York City last night. Buffett first performed at the Garden over 30 years ago in March of 1977 when he opened for The Eagles.

The Set List and comments from those who listened to the show are now available.

Jimmy has now played a different songs for the final encore during all 10 shows of The Year of Still Here Tour. Last night he ended the show with an acoustic version of “Lovely Cruise”. The last time he perfomed the song was back on October 4th, 2007 at the Waikiki Shell in Honolulu, HI.

The five show June leg of the tour ends on Saturday June 14tht with a show at the Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. The Courier Post has an article on the upcoming show: “Buffett at the Ballpark.

Congratulations go out to Ken Berling for submitting the winning video for our biggest fan that reads Buffett News contest. Ken wins two Jimmy Buffett tickets to a future concert courtesy TickCo Premium Seating. Hard-to-find and sold-out Jimmy Buffett tickets and more premium concert tickets are available at TickCo now.

You can watch the winning video here:

Thanks to everyone who participated in the contest. There were quite a few good ones to choose from. Some of the other entries will be posted at a later time.

Jimmy Buffett will be peforming again this year at the New Morning Jazz Club in Paris, France on September 19, 2008. He performed there last year on June 8th, 2007 (set list). Tickets are now on sale Ticketnet.fr

(thanks to disneynut for passing that along to us)

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band brought the Year of Still Here tour to DTE Energy Music Theater in Clarkston, MI last night. Buffett has performed at the venue formerly known as the Pine Knob Music Theatre about 23 times since 1985.

Greg Fingers Taylor made a surprise appearance and joined Jimmy and the Reefers for two songs “Son of a Son of a Sailor” and “A Pirate Looks at Forty”.

Jimmy kept his streak of different songs for the final encore for this years tour going with an acoustic version of “Tin Cup Chalice” to end the show. The last time he perfomed the song was back on November 3, 2007 in Tampa, FL.

The Set List and comments from those who listened to the show are now available.

The Detroit Free press has a review of the show “Buffett gives Parrotheads and Wings fans a night to remember”

The crowd was a sea of Hawaiian shirts, grass skirts and bouncing beach balls, as Jimmy Buffet took the stage for a sold-out concert Tuesday night at DTE Energy Music Theater in Clarkston.

Buffett held up a Detroit Red Wings jersey. “Home of the Stanley Cup champions!” Buffett said. “I’m gonna trade you two flip flops for a Red Wings jersey. Do we have a deal?” The crowd went crazy.

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefers appear on many tracks on the next Little Feat album called “Join the Band”. Among the Reefers who appear are Mac McAnally, Robert Greenidge, Jim Mayer, Ralph McDonald, and Michael Utley. Little Feat’s Sam Clayton was the former CRB percussionist before Ralph McDonald joined the band. Visit the Little Feat website for more information.

Among the noteable credits:

CHAMPION OF THE WORLD
Lead vocals: Paul Barrere, Jimmy Buffett

TIME LOVES A HERO
Lead vocals: Jimmy Buffett, Bill Payne
Pans: Robert Greenidge (Coral Reefer Band)

THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
Background vocals: Mac McAnally, Bill Payne, Michael Utley

FAT MAN IN THE BATHTUB
Guitars: Sony Landreth slide guitar

SEE YOU LATER ALLIGATOR
Keyboards: Bill Payne piano; Michael Utley B-3
Bass: Jim Mayer standup bass & slap

DIXIE CHICKEN:
Percussion: Sam Clayton congas; Ralph McDonald (Coral Reefer Band) shakers
Slide Guitar: Sonny Landreth

WILLIN’:
Keyboards Bill Payne piano; Mac McAnally B-3 (McAnally on ORGAN!!!)
Percussion Ralph MacDonald tambourine & triangle

The Detroit Free Press has an article about the new Margaritaville Salsa line: Margaritaville joins the mix – Ferndale firm branches out with Buffett’s line of food”

As Jimmy Buffett hits the stage tonight at the DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, a new line of his Margaritaville salsa is hitting stores.

Margaritaville is a $440-million brand, Zilko said. Margaritaville Foods was launched four years ago as the consumer and packaged goods division of Margaritaville Enterprise LLC, based in Orlando. Inspired by the Buffett song of the same name, Margaritaville Foods also sells frozen seafood, beer, tequila and margarita mix.

The Literary World of Jimmy Buffett: Meet Lambert Davis, an Illustrator
Lambert Davis is a special guest on Time After Island Time Produced by Paul Leslie, Jeff Pike, and Heather Dee Perry

As many of you are enjoying the latest book by Jimmy Buffett, “Swine Not?” with illustrations by Helen Bransford, we offer this look back in time with artist Lambert Davis. Born in Oahu, Hawaii and speaking to us from Australia, Lambert Davis has illustrated many books, including the books “Trouble Dolls” and “Jolly Mon” written by famed author Jimmy Buffett and his daughter Savannah Jane Buffett.

His behind the scenes look gives us a good idea of the formation of these great books, and with some of the best music around, we offer an entertaining and educational story. Tune into Time After Island Time from anywhere in the world via Radio JimmyDreamz at Radio.Jimmydreamz.com

Monday – 3:00 PM – June 9, 2008
Wednesdays – 9:00 AM – June 11, 2008
Thursdays – MIDNIGHT – June 12, 2008
Saturday – 8:00 PM – June 14, 2008
*All Broadcasts are Eastern Time*
TAIT info at www.timeafterislandtime.blogspot.com
Visit Lambert Davis on the web at www.lambertdavis.com

The Year of Still Here tour made it’s way to Raleigh NC last night. Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band last performed there back on April 27th, 2004.

The set list and comments from the show are now available.

Jimmy played the song “Bama Breeze” for the first time during this years tour. Sonny Landreth was a special guest for the show and performed the song “Hell At Home” solo and joined Jimmy and the CRB on USS Zydecoldsmobile and other songs.

Jimmy ended the show with an acoustic solo version of song “Coast of Carolina” (last time performed was back on June 4th, 2006). Jimmy still has played a different song for the final encore for each show during this year’s tour.

The second leg of The Year of Still Here tour got underway last night at the Lakewood Ampitheatre in Atlanta GA.

The set list from the show along with comments from those who listened to it on Radio Margaritaville are now available.

Jake Shimabukuro and Sonny Landreth joined the Coral Reefer Band on several songs including the “Tiki Bar is Open”, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, and “Uss Zydecoldsmobile”. Jimmy ended the show with a cover of the John Prine song called “It’s a Big Old Goofy World”

A video and a slideshow with photos from the Jimmy Buffett concert in Atlanta is available from Nelson Hicks at WSBTV.com

Billboard has an interview with Jimmy Buffett on what he has been up to lately and his upcoming plans: “Buffett Busy With Live DVD, Tour, Kids Book”

Jimmy Buffett is in “no hurry” to make his next album, but he still has plenty to offer his faithful Parrotheads this year.

Buffett is also developing albums for younger artists, including Coral Reefer Band backup singer Nadirah Shakoor, for his Mailboat label. And his Year of Still Here Tour starts tomorrow at Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta.

As for that next album, the follow-up to 2006′s “Take the Weather With You,” Buffett says that “the time it takes to write a book kind of produces an offshoot of you [wanting] to go back to something else.”

He adds that he’s been “listening to different things that inspire me musically, but I’m in no hurry to do (an album). I am writing songs; it’ll be interesting to see if I wait and get a collection of 12 of them together to do an album or go do four and put ‘em online or something. The delivery systems now … it’s very interesting how you can put stuff out there, so we’ll see what feels like the best way to do it.”
Yesterday (June 3), Buffett released a new DVD, “Scenes You Know By Heart,” that will be sold exclusively by Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club and the Web site of the artist’s Mailboat Records.

“We shoot everything,” Buffett tells Billboard.com, “and somebody had an idea to do one like this. It’s kind of a unique platform in which to feature little vignettes from all over the place. It’s National Geographic with a good soundtrack — that’s what I consider it.”

News Center 11 (WTOD in Meridan MS) has an article on the Rock Band tailgate competition that begins with the Atlanta show: “Buffett, Peavey Team for Tailgate Fun.

The second part of Jimmy Buffett’s tour kicks off in Atlanta June 5. The singer has called on Meridian’s Peavey Electronics to add a little excitement to it.

Peavey makes the game controllers for the popular electronic guitar games and Buffett asked the company to make one for ‘Rock Band’, a game that features several of his songs.

Instead of a standard game controller, Buffett wanted this one to be on a golf cart.

“I’m going to look forward to seeing his face when he sees it in Atlanta Thursday. We’ve had a ball doing it and it pretty much speaks for himself,” said company founder Hartley Peavey.

“Jimmy’s Sharkart”, as it will be called, will be on hand before the concert, as fans tailgate. They’ll get a shot at a high score, and a chance to meet Buffett.

Margaritaville.com has more information and a picture of the SharkArt cart: “Rock Band in Paradise…coming to a tailgate near you!“