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USA Today has an interview “Jimmy Buffett releases new ‘Buffet’ album”

At first glance, you might think Jimmy Buffett’s new album, out Tuesday, is called Buffett Hotel. Like his name. But look closer. There’s only one T.

“People say, ‘What’s the Buffett Hotel?’ I say, ‘Buffet.’” People have been mispronouncing Jimmy’s last name as Buff-ay instead of Buff-it for a long time, he told me when he called recently from Manhattan. “It used to really piss me off. Twice, he remembers, his name was misspelled on his own albums by his own record label in his early career. He admits that some of his lawyers still have trouble getting it right. “It’s been an ongoing thing.”

In the booklet that accompanies the CD, Jimmy writes that he doesn’t see himself ever getting old and sitting on a cruise ship deck chair. “I’d rather be lost in the Sahara,” he writes.

Jimmy Buffett’s new album “Buffet Hotel” gets released today.

The Miami Herald has an interview with Jimmy: “Trip to Africa inspires Buffett”

Q: For years we’ve fought over the spelling of your name. With this album title, you’ve set our cause back 40 years.

Buffett: [Laughs.] I saw this sign and thought it would be fun to play with it. It’s been a pet peeve of mine back to the days when I was playing clubs. People would come up and ask, `Where’s the food?’ `No, no. No food. That’s me.’

Q: Did the trip to Africa inspire the music?

Buffett: The trip to Africa was one of the musical highlights of my life. It lit a fire under me as a songwriter. [But] the inspiration was more technological. Everyone uses [Pro Tools], and I am an older person but my mind is inclusive enough to want to know of these things. I was able to do the vocals at my leisure. I call it the red-wine vocals. I was never one to spend a lot of time [in the studio.] Maybe to my detriment. I’m a capture-the-magic kinda guy as opposed to working it to death. I got other s— to do!

Amazon.com has an mp3 download of Jimmy Buffett’s new album “Buffet Hotel” available for download for only $3.99.

You can also purchase the Buffet Hotel cd for only $7.99 at Amazon.com.

The lyrics for the songs on Jimmy Buffett’s new album “Buffet Hotel” are now available in our Song & Lyrics database (thanks to Nancy for helping to transcribe the lyrics).

You can purchase Buffet Hotel for only $7.99 at Amazon.com.

Some reviews of Buffet Hotel are starting to come in:
AL.com: “Jimmy Buffett tells tales of home on ‘Buffet Hotel’ ”
UPI: “Buffett Targets Parrotheads With New Album”
GJ Sentinel.com: “Jimmy Buffett, Neil Young releasing albums just in time for the holidays“

Margaritaville has posted a video called “Buffet Hotel Diary” with video clips and Jimmy telling the story behind the making of the album.

The California Chronicle has an interview with Mac McAnally: “McAnally, McNeil to perform in Hub City”

McAnally, who first released an album in 1977, has seen a recent surge in popularity thanks to connections with country music superstars Kenny Chesney and Toby Keith.

McAnally signed this year to Keith’s Show Dog Nashville record label, and scored his first number one song duetting with Chesney on “Down the Road.” Chesney covered “Down the Road,” originally penned and performed by McAnally in 1990, as well as McAnally’s “Back Where I Come From.”

McAnally noted that “Down the Road” was written on Christmas morning, when he was putting toys together for his daughter.

“It was too close to daylight to go on to sleep so I decided to wait until the kids got up and looked under the tree,” he said. “That was in 1987 and Kenny resurrected it last year.”

McAnally said he was headed to the studio Wednesday to demo a few songs he has accumulated recently.

“I produced the new Jimmy Buffett record that’s just about to come out, along with Mike Utley,” he said. “We’ve produced the last three or four. We’re also going to be on one of those CMT ‘Crossroads’ shows with Jimmy Buffett and the Zac Brown Band.”

There will be a Buffet Hotel radio special on Radio Margaritaville this Monday December 7th at 11:00 am Eastern time. This will be the same kind of show Jimmy did for his last album where each song is played in full and Jimmy tells the story behind it.

The radio special will be air on the following dates and times on RM:

Monday 12/7 at 11:00pm Eastern
December 8 at 5:00 pm Eastern
December 11 at 9:00 pm Eastern
December 12 at 11:00 am Eastern

The audio liner notes will also be available on MailboatRecords.com beginning December 8th!

Jimmy Buffett’s new album “Buffet Hotel” will be release on December 8th. It is available for pre-order at Amazon.com for $7.99.

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.