More on Jimmy's New Album

Post by **phjim** » August 28, 2003 6:57 am

In today's Boston Globe, Steve Morse interviews Jimmy and gets some details on the new album: "Surprise country hit brings Buffett some extra-happy hours".

He expects to sing duets with Jackson, Strait, and Kenny Chesney (who termed Buffett a "role model" in a Globe interview last year), and also hopes to get Emmylou Harris and Nanci Griffith on the record, which he'll release next year and will probably title "Honky Tonk."

"I also love country songwriters. I've got a Don Gibson song picked and something by Lyle Lovett, of course. And I've got a bunch of Bruce Cockburn things, and I've written some things. So this won't be a stretch for me." He'd love to do Hank Williams's "Hey, Good Lookin' " with Brenda Lee and Cyndi Lauper. "That may only happen in my dreams, but I'm going to try."

crawfish · Post by **crawfish** » August 28, 2003 8:24 am

The new album will be called "Conchy Tonk not Honky Tonk.

Air M'Ville Cap'n · Post by **Air M'Ville Cap'n** » August 28, 2003 8:49 am

Duet with Chesney, that is awesome. George Strait will be cool too

DoorNumber3 · Post by **DoorNumber3** » August 28, 2003 9:39 am

folks it does not get ANY cooler than Jimmy Buffett together with George Strait!!!

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » August 28, 2003 10:51 am

I wish he do a duet with Jerry Jeff Walker. After all they are old friends and have co-wrote together before.

Tiki Bar · Post by **Tiki Bar** » August 28, 2003 11:18 am

[As for his current tour with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett describes it as a "Tiki bar" show. "I'm a Tiki bar fan, and I'm doing the John Hiatt song `Thank God the Tiki Bar Is Open.' I've spent some time out in Hawaii and I'm a child of Tiki culture. So we decided to bring that on the road and evolve it so we could use our dancers, and now we even have a fire twirler," he says. "We're trying to keep the show spiffed up and lively."]

I had no idea Jimmy was a fan! How cool is that?

I really look forward to the new album - I'm a little bit country, I'm a little bit rock-n-roll, and I'm a big bit Buffett!

fabduo · Post by **fabduo** » August 28, 2003 1:11 pm

His tour is called Tiki Time Tour not Tiki Bar

Twelve Volt Cop · Post by **Twelve Volt Cop** » August 28, 2003 1:41 pm

DoorNumber3 wrote:folks it does not get ANY cooler than Jimmy Buffett together with George Strait!!!

You got that right! That'll be awesome. I love Gerge Strait's version of "Stars on the Water." It'll be great to hear the two of them together.

7lords · Post by **7lords** » August 28, 2003 2:02 pm

fabduo wrote:His tour is called Tiki Time Tour not Tiki Bar

It didn't say it was "The Tiki Bar Tour" it said he described it as a Tiki bar show.

phjrsaunt · Post by **phjrsaunt** » August 29, 2003 10:54 pm

What an interesting mixture!!

son of a beach · Post by **son of a beach** » August 29, 2003 11:32 pm

I hope that Lyle Lovett song he has picked is "if I had a boat"

And I agree, if there's gonna be a few duets, Jerry Jeff should be on there too.

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