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Billboard has an interview with Jimmy on his upcoming new album: “Jimmy Buffett Goes Back To Roots For ‘Hotel’”

Jimmy Buffett says he felt a greater level of engagement on his new album, “Buffet Hotel,” than he has on many of his other recent efforts.

“With a band this good and with people this good around you, you kind of get in a routine,” Buffett tells Billboard.com, acknowledging that previous “listening and fixing” was done primarily by Coral Reefer Band collaborators Mike Utley and Mac McAnally.

Buffett is planning a full-scale “Buffet Hotel” tour for 2010 and intends to start the year in Australia and the Pacific Rim. He’s toying with the idea of playing entire albums next year and hopes to play 1983’s “One Particular Harbor” in Tahiti. He’s also putting into motion into a special performance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival with “Buffet Hotel” guests Sonny Landreth and Toumani Diabate. And while he says that he’s “out of the movie business” at the moment, Buffett is working on a documentary about his trip to Mali with director Margaret Brown.

Buffett also has two books in the works, a collection of short stories set in the Pacific and “a rock ‘n’ roll novel” called “Mudbath” that is “based on a real-life adventure, but hopefully you won’t recognize any of the characters.”

New York Magazine has an article in which Jimmy Buffett talks about Ilo Ferreira: “From Africa to Margaritaville”

On November 23, Freston and his friend Jimmy Buffett, 62, were there to support Ilo at his sold-out show at Joe’s Pub and his appearance later that night on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, which they’d helped engineer.
How’d they get to know, and fund, him? “It was an amazing set of circumstances,” Buffett says backstage at Joe’s. “Freston gets fired and he doesn’t have his plane and he’s got me all fired up to go to the Festival in the Desert,” in Africa. So they have to take Buffett’s jet. The route to Mali “is from San Juan to Cape Verde,” where they stopped to refuel. Buffett thought, why not check out the local music scene while they were stopping through. “I went, ‘Let’s see if Cesaria Evora is playing; I’ve always been a fan.’”

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band performed the final show of the 2009 Summerzcool Tour last night at the Madison Square Garden in New York City.

The set list along with comments are now available.

Some changes to the set list included “Last Man Standing” (last played at the Margaritaville Cafe in New Orleans on May 1st, 2008) and “Defying Gravity” for the final encore (last played at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia PA on June 14th, 2008 ).

Jimmy Buffett appeared on the Today Show this morning. He promoted his upcoming album “Buffet Hotel”. A video is now available at MSNBC.

Mailboat Records has audio samples from Jimmy Buffett’s upcoming album “Buffet Hotel” that will be released on December 8th

1. Nobody From Nowhere
2. Wings
3. Big Top
4. Beautiful Swimmers
5. Turn Up The Heat and Chill The Rose
6. Summerzcool
7. Rhumba Man
8. We Learned To Be Cool From You
9. Surfing In a Hurricane
10. Life Short Call Now
11. Buffet Hotel
12. A Lot To Drink About

Buffet Hotel is available for pre-order at MailboatRecords.com, and will be available everywhere on December 8th! It is also available for pre-order at Amazon.com.

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band performed last night at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville CT as part of the 2009 Summerzcool Tour

The set list along with comments are now available.

Some changes to the set list included “Boat Drinks”, “Another Saturday Night”, and Nautical Wheelers” for the second encore. Ilo Ferreira was a special guest for the show and he did lead vocals on “Let Me Love You”.

A review of the show is available from MassLive: “Buffett serves up Indian Summer at Mohegan Sun”

Jimmy Buffett picked the perfect autumn weekend to wrap up the last session of his “Summerzcool” tour, playing a show at Mohegan Sun Arena in front of a sold out house on Saturday night.

Warm and sunny was the order of the day outside the building, and grass skirts and beach balls were part of the standard uniform inside as Buffett turned Uncasville into Margaritaville for a two hour stretch.

The Globe and Mail has a review of the Toronto Show: “Jimmy Buffet’s Parrot Heads hail their antihero”

If Warren Buffett is a master of investment, Jimmy Buffett (no relation) is a master of time well wasted. Here’s a man who has parlayed a modest talent for laid-back singing and simple songwriting into an empire, his coral-reef country-rock drawing super-loyal crowds, even though his “hits” are not numerous at all.

The 62-year-old entertainer works three nights a week – his concert album from 1999 is Buffett Live – Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays – and when he walks on stage he does so in bare feet and to an antihero’s welcome. Warren Buffett’s secret is of the buy-low-sell-high kind, but what is the formula of Jimmy?

Ilo Ferreira at Joe’s Pub in New York on Monday, November 23rd!
Join Ilo Ferreira for a special showcase performance with his band at the legendary Joe’s Pub in New York this Monday, November 23rd. A small quantity of tickets have been released for this very special show and will sell out fast. Tickets are $12, click HERE to buy! For those of you unable to attend, please be sure to tune in to see Ilo performing on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with house band, The Roots, plus members of the Coral Reefers!

From CMT: Jimmy Buffett and the Zac Brown Band have been booked for the latest episode of CMT Crossroads. The performances will be filmed in front of an invitation-only audience in Nashville in December. It will air on CMT in March. Buffett will release a new album, Buffet Hotel, on Dec. 8. The Zac Brown Band’s hits include “Chicken Fried,” “Whatever It Is” and “Toes,” all from their platinum album, The Foundation.

Update: Margaritaville.com has posted more details on the CMT Crossroads show

Known for his high-energy sold-out shows, beach inspired tropical tunes and devoted and enthusiastic fans, singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett will share the stage with this year’s breakout artist known for its Southern Rock and dynamic stage show, the Zac Brown Band. They team up for the latest episode of the critically-acclaimed CMT CROSSROADS series. CMT CROSSROADS: JIMMY BUFFETT AND ZAC BROWN BAND will tape before an invitation only audience next month in Nashville. The episode will premiere in March, 2010 on CMT.

Jimmy on the Today Show - Monday, Nov. 23rd - Be sure to tune in to the Today Show on Monday, November 23rd as Jimmy talks about his newest release, Buffet Hotel, due out December 8th! Buffet Hotel is available for pre-sale online at MailboatRecords.com and Amazon.com.

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band resumed the 2009 Summerzcool Tour last night at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville VA.

The set list along with comments are now available.

Jake Shimabukuro and Ilo Ferreira were special guests for the show.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch has a review of the show “Jimmy Buffett predictable, familiar and fun”

These days, Jimmy Buffett is more a brand than a musician.

The restaurants, the beer line, the newly renamed Miami Dolphins stadium after the beer line, the upcoming casino in Biloxi, Miss. — it all induces a bit of nausea.

But say this for the ol’ guy, when it’s time to hit the stage, he works it.

The Toronto Star has an article on the upcoming show along with an interview with Jimmy: “Parrotheads keeping cool in Margaritaville North”

Not only is there no parking lot at the ACC, it’s probably going to be too chilly to dance outdoors in a grass skirt and coconut bra anyway. But Buffett, 62, has no doubt his loyal fans, dubbed Parrotheads, will be out in force.

“I remember going to Minnesota and seeing fans out in the street tailgating. You watch, they will figure it out,” Buffett says from an undisclosed east-coast location, the slight southern drawl of his Alabama roots coating his voice. “Our fans are a very resourceful bunch.”

“I think there’s a kind of misconceived notion that in order to be a fan you have to put on a coconut bra,” says Buffett. “A good number of people don’t come in costume and are just as rabid fans. It runs a much broader spectrum age-wise and you can get as crazy as you want. There are no rules.”

Buffett also includes Canada among those experiences. He traces his roots to Glace Bay, N.S., where his grandfather worked on ships. And he still has good friends in Toronto; pals he plans to join for an oyster roast featuring some of P.E.I.’s finest while he’s in town.

“We’ve got great fans there and I have my lineage … so I’m happy to be coming. Pray for an extended Indian summer and good weather,” Buffett says.