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A few months back I finally got around to reading "Tourist Season" and loved it. Needless to say, "The Ballad of Skip Wiley" gets a lot more rotation in the cd deck now. After about 200 pages of "Following the Equator" it kinda got slow so I put it down, not to say I wo...

Hark! Who is that, prowling amidst the cliffs! It is Son Of A Beach, hands clutching a reflective halberd! He howls ominously:

"For the love of beatings, I hereby snap and go berzerk!!!"

I live in smack dab in Skynyrd territory (Middleburg/Jacksonville, Fl. area).
Johnny Van Zant came through my job just the other day.
Very friendly guy.

In "Trouble On The Horizon" Jimmy says
"oh sh#t I'm amphibian"

I've always felt that "take it all in, it's as big as it seems" from Jimmy Dreams was profane.

Speaking of Jerry Jeff, soooo many good songs.
I must say that "Hill Country Rains" rocks and something about that songs damn near gives me chill bumps whan I crank it.
Hell that whole album is great!

From the new songs I've heard from LTC and the new tracks he recorded/rerecorded on MMIM it seems Jimmy is getting back to the islands and that's a step in the right direction for me. Beach House was a wrong step in my book but that's only because I like the island stuff and steel drums, congas, etc...

My favorite movie is constantly changing but one that's always at the top of the list is SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT!!!!!!!!!!(Buford T. Justice and Junior are classic) Key Largo and Casablanca are up there too as well as Pulp Fiction and just about every Star Wars flick. Blame It On Rio is up there too a...

but it certeainly is Buffettesque especially Kenny Chesney's cover of Come Monday :lol: , "Outta Here" was written by former reefer Josh Leo. Not to mention Jimmy being mentioned in "How Forever Feels" and a Margaritaville reference in "Live those songs" "Blue Chai...

Ilph wrote:I think it's less Jimmy conforming to country music as it is country music conforming to Jimmy Buffett.

I think you're right about that

If anyone's worried about it sounding too country, So far, Scarlet Begonias and Back to the Islands do not sound very country to me. Hell, even License to Chill does'nt sound all that country either other than Kenny Chesney being on it. Not that I have a problem with country because after all, some ...

There is supposedly a Lyle Lovett cover on the new cd.
I'm hoping that it's "If I had a baot".

Where is Creedence Clearwater Revival on the list?

Hell, even Lynyrd Skynerd is better than U2 and a couple of others

(just my opinion)

"Don't Bug me" absolutely blows. "Math sux" would have been better as an intrumental or maybe another song topic because musically it's pretty good. I was playing it at work and had to turn it down because I was ashamed of it. I think Atered Boy had potential but maybe it's Jimmy...

Hank Williams III has a song called "Trashville" ripping the state of music there although I don't have the words.

Hank Williams Jr's latest cd "I'm one of you" is great and gets back to his hellraising/party type songs.
Like Jimmy most of his best stuff is the lesser know stuff.


"why can't we all just get a looooooooooongneck"

No prob, I just feel that the artists mentioned are not wanna bes, certainly not "most" of them.

I have to agree though I prefer Jimmy and JJW's gulf and western, and throw in a little Guy Clark too.

Jahfin wrote:

ph4ever wrote:The whole Cowboy Boots and Bathing Suits CD by Jerry Jeff Walker.

I second that commotion especially since most of the artists being named are wannabe hat acts that wouldn't know what real country music was if it jumped up and bite 'em on the ass.

uh.........whatever

Banana trees are cheap and grow very fast.
I started out with about five and now have over twenty surrounding my hammock.
Had so many I gave some to my neighbors.

I recently made a similar cd I call "Attack of the Buffett Clones" The following songs all have a mexican/caribbean flavor to them: "Divers do it deeper" and "Juanita" by David Allan Coe and both have a hint of the Changes In Lattitudes melody in them "He drinks te...