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In a week I'll be takin Mrs. Goodman to San Francisco for my brother-inlaw's 5oth. It's a surprise so keep it down. We'll be in Frisco only two weeks shy of the Labor Day Weekend. So I'm claiming a Buffett mulligan. Any good Buffett sites, eateries, drinkeries I should visit? I'm gonna have to watch...

Desdemona

Was that a cut n paste or from memory? When are those cookies gonna be available?

I was there in spirit. Rumor is he opened with HGL.

PH4Ever

Nice work and thanks for "rewriting history".

Brahmafear

Ever compare JJW's Rodeo Cowboy yodeling with Jimmy's on Brahma Fear?

Only in BuffettNews can a Blind Octopus watch PBS.

Wouldn't theft of those cans of peanut butter be grounds for expulsion? I think Sheriff Bufford Pusser is still pursuin JB!

Parrot Monkey

I like a guy named Parrot Monkey that gets technical on the BuffettNews Board. Bet you didn't know that Russell wanted to call his big album "Art Carny" because he was such a Honeymooners fan.

Parrot Monkey

What I meant was you have a song written in 1975 (before CDs) finally getting covered nearly 30 years later. The original escaped me and I don't think it was a big hit for Leon. Only "Carny" was successful for him me thinks. I could be wrong.

First let me say its good to have a proper belt buckle holding up my pants. Second, now I can finally say I've heard Guy Clark's original as well as the covers of Jerry Jeff Walker & Buffett/Jackson. IMHO Walker gets the tip of the mast. All's fair since it's likely Jimmy got interested in the s...

The song is Leon Russell's (two esses)from back in 1975. The album (not CD) was titled Will O' The Wisp. Leon's version goes near five & one-half minutes. JB nearly hits three and one-half.

Sorry I didn't tape it. I bought the DVD awhile earlier. Ingrid is much too classy of a lady to make the interview portion that revealing or personal. I think Jim's greatest influence on JB was how he told stories to the audience - the so called "raps" as opposed to White Man's Raps. Think...

Last Saturday nite PBS had a one hour special on Jim courtesy of Ingrid Croce. Jim was the "guy" before his untimely death (9/20/73). Jim's influence on Jimmy Buffett is well established in Pennsylvania and Florida. Just wondering when JB will sing/cover a Croce tune. I don't mean Bad Lero...

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa! whoever said bigger is better never visited these shores.

Safe to say I'll be looking for a new avatar shortly.

In a continuing tribute to Steve Goodman, the new avatar is from the cover of "No Big Surprise", a 40 song anthology that was my real introduction to Steve. The picture was shot in the Netherlands and is a companion to Steve's cover of Michael Smith's " The Dutchman ". This tune ...

She was tired of just soakin up rays.

Conky Tonkin

Wishin I was somewhere other than here.

All right Four Play- way to start the action.

Come a lot of Mondays since that phone call from the booth(?)

Friends and neighbors

On LTC, Jimmy makes references to lots of his prior songtitles and lyrics. How's about a thread covering them all. After we're done we can tally the results and I can get a life.

All seriousness aside, a worthwhile scholarly endeavor, no?

First of all I love LTC. Yet I must say that I'm disappointed to see how few tunes Jimmy has written or co-written here. This CD marks a personal low for JB in terms of writing output. Bottom line is the quality of the material, which I feel is up there with anything he's done of late. JB is a brill...