Well, the brief Buffett mention isn't very favorable and I honestly don't see the Buffett-Donna connection aside from his rendition of Sonny Landreth's "U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile" which does remind me a bit of Donna the Buffalo.
From the Athens, GA based Flagpole.com:
http://tinylink.com/?LzSRC9mEpA
Donna the Buffalo
Wednesday, February 11, Georgia Theatre
They're upbeat Yankee cowboys from upstate New York dabbling in a this-and-that patchwork quilt of hoe-down country and Cajun restaurant squeezebox Zydeco. Thrown together in 1988 for what was supposed to be just one coffeehouse show in Ithaca, NY, Donna the Buffalo has been hoofing it nearly non-stop ever since. While the band is a mainstay on the festival circuit, the Herd (as the band and its followers are affectionately known) rarely treads on Georgia's red clay. In a town filled with passionate activists without portfolios, this band's unique brand of subtle anti-establishment awareness folk should make local friends quickly. Like Athens, the band's hometown of Trumansburg, NY, just north of Ithaca, boasts a burgeoning, cooperative music and arts scene with successful record labels, an Internet radio station that features bands from the area (Radio Free Ithaca), and a number of acts enjoying regional success and poised to blaze national trails, like John Brown's Body and the Sim Redmond Band.
Fresh off the boat, Jomo's own JamCruise II that is, the group is immersed in a mainland trek through the Southeast this winter with Grammy Award winner Jim Lauderdale that stops, sans Lauderdale regrettably, at our own Georgia Theatre. The six-piece Americana orchestra features dual vocalists Jeb Puryear and Tara Nevins and a slew of obscure rural instruments like scrub boards, fiddles and Lowery Organs. Expect roaring, danceable world-beat love anthems that borrow from the hippy, free love essence of the 1960s and the occasional carefully selected cover from the likes of Bob Dylan, or maybe even (gasp) Jimmy Buffett.
If you've watched the Weather Channel recently it's no mystery why Donna the Buffalo is below the Mason-Dixon line this winter. Here's hoping for future stampedes in the Classic City. [David Eduardo]
Donna the Buffalo (Brief Buffett Menton)
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