Take The Weather With You Interview Transcript
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Take The Weather With You Interview Transcript
Here is the interview Jimmy Buffet had with Steve Huntington, promoting his new album, Take The Weather With You
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Bama Breeze:
Steve: Jimmy, welcome back to your radio station, Radio Margaritaville.
Jimmy: Well Hello Mr. Huntington, it's always good to drop in out of the sky or surface or whatever we do here.
Steve: You sure do. Wonderful to see you again. I trust your travels have been good?
Jimmy: It's been a busy year, it's gone by much too fast, and ah, but it sure has been fun. And having this album kind of finished is an interesting thing because it's been a project in the works, probably for about two or three, I mean maybe three years we've been working on this thing on and off between the other busy things we've been doing. So, fortunately, things just keep on cooking, but we managed to take enough time off and concentrate on what I think is a pretty good collection of songs.
Steve: Congratulations on its completion. It is just chock full of good sounds, as we're about to hear.
Jimmy: It's passed several good bar tests. There have been, you know, people out there that I go and take it out and drop it in on, and parrothead gatherings here and there, so. And then I've been listening to it as I listen to you, driving back and forth from my house in Sag Harbor out to surf in Montauk is when I do my Sirius listening.
Steve: Mmmh huh!
Jimmy: So that was where I did the album testing, as we, you know in one complete set, it's the perfect length of time that I gotta drive to and from my little surf spot. So it was a good testing grounds... It's been road tested very well.
Steve: Well this first one is the real deal. Bama Breeze, what a hit.
Jimmy: Well, yeah, I mean, and that's a song that was brought to me, and uh, by Renee Bell, who is and old friend, who kind of is a song, she's the lady in Nashville that has done this for a long time and is very good at it. And, I just heard it and I went, you know, Floribama, boom! It's one of those that I had wished that I had written, and the kids that wrote this song, I mean, they hit the nail on the head. And, and in a way the melancholy of that side of, you know, the Bama Breeze, is obviously about the Floribama, which is a coming of age bar that people on the Gulf Coast, probably, many know as well as I do.
Aaah but the interesting thing is when I was kind of road testing this out, I have a friend up in Nantucket, who has a couple of restaurants and it's staffed by twenty year old college students. And, they were all having a party one time and I dropped in and I said "What do all think about this?", and I mean these are northeastern college kids and this is supposed to be my version of a country song. They just went "Oh man". It just, there's, everybody's got a Bama Breeze in their life, I figure. There's that, that uh beach bar. We hadn't done bad on the beach either, but, (in) the country it's amazing how many Bama Breezes are out there. So I think it's kind of a, it's a coming of age kind of a thing. And, it just, just spoke to me and uh, and we went in and, you know, and we took our Lynyrd Skynyrd, best Lynyrd Skynyrd approach in when we did this song.
Steve: On Radio Margaritaville, From Party At The End Of The World, Jimmy Buffett, Bama Breeze
Bama Breeze
Steve: Bama Breeze, on Radio Margaritaville, Jimmy Buffett's band new one, Take The Weather With You is out and we've got Jimmy on Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31.
Steve: Jimmy, welcome back to your radio station, Radio Margaritaville.
Jimmy: Well Hello Mr. Huntington, it's always good to drop in out of the sky or surface or whatever we do here.
Steve: You sure do. Wonderful to see you again. I trust your travels have been good?
Jimmy: It's been a busy year, it's gone by much too fast, and ah, but it sure has been fun. And having this album kind of finished is an interesting thing because it's been a project in the works, probably for about two or three, I mean maybe three years we've been working on this thing on and off between the other busy things we've been doing. So, fortunately, things just keep on cooking, but we managed to take enough time off and concentrate on what I think is a pretty good collection of songs.
Steve: Congratulations on its completion. It is just chock full of good sounds, as we're about to hear.
Jimmy: It's passed several good bar tests. There have been, you know, people out there that I go and take it out and drop it in on, and parrothead gatherings here and there, so. And then I've been listening to it as I listen to you, driving back and forth from my house in Sag Harbor out to surf in Montauk is when I do my Sirius listening.
Steve: Mmmh huh!
Jimmy: So that was where I did the album testing, as we, you know in one complete set, it's the perfect length of time that I gotta drive to and from my little surf spot. So it was a good testing grounds... It's been road tested very well.
Steve: Well this first one is the real deal. Bama Breeze, what a hit.
Jimmy: Well, yeah, I mean, and that's a song that was brought to me, and uh, by Renee Bell, who is and old friend, who kind of is a song, she's the lady in Nashville that has done this for a long time and is very good at it. And, I just heard it and I went, you know, Floribama, boom! It's one of those that I had wished that I had written, and the kids that wrote this song, I mean, they hit the nail on the head. And, and in a way the melancholy of that side of, you know, the Bama Breeze, is obviously about the Floribama, which is a coming of age bar that people on the Gulf Coast, probably, many know as well as I do.
Aaah but the interesting thing is when I was kind of road testing this out, I have a friend up in Nantucket, who has a couple of restaurants and it's staffed by twenty year old college students. And, they were all having a party one time and I dropped in and I said "What do all think about this?", and I mean these are northeastern college kids and this is supposed to be my version of a country song. They just went "Oh man". It just, there's, everybody's got a Bama Breeze in their life, I figure. There's that, that uh beach bar. We hadn't done bad on the beach either, but, (in) the country it's amazing how many Bama Breezes are out there. So I think it's kind of a, it's a coming of age kind of a thing. And, it just, just spoke to me and uh, and we went in and, you know, and we took our Lynyrd Skynyrd, best Lynyrd Skynyrd approach in when we did this song.
Steve: On Radio Margaritaville, From Party At The End Of The World, Jimmy Buffett, Bama Breeze
Bama Breeze
Steve: Bama Breeze, on Radio Margaritaville, Jimmy Buffett's band new one, Take The Weather With You is out and we've got Jimmy on Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31.
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Party At The End Of The World:
Steve: Party at the End of the World used to be the working title of the album right?
Jimmy: Yeah, but I think…it was for a long time, but then I was having to explain it.
And if you have to explain a title to an album or song or anything, then it shouldn’t be a title. In my humble opinion, yeah a title should say it all, it should go “boom that’s it” and people were going, “well, is it party? or is the world ending? what do you mean by that?” and when somebody starts asking you a question like “what do you mean by that” it’s better left as a song.
I love the song. It was inspired by as I mentioned before a trip to Argentina, but then I took Roger and Pete and Will Kimbrough who was a writer on a lot of this stuff… I took them down to St. Barth’s because I always like to write in comfortable places. We rented a little house on the beach put our little garage band and our little apple on there and we kinda sat there and wrote songs for a couple of weeks. And uh, of course, we didn’t work that hard, we worked a couple and in true French style we took lunch off.
So there’s a little Rose wine and fashion shows and there were these lovely French models running around and it was like cowboy day or something and they had these…let’s just say…I don’t have to explain that any further.
So you get inspiration where you can these days, Steve, that’s all I can tell ya-- so—and--Being the satirical thing, the line I love in here is because you know in the middle of the world basically looking like it’s going to hell these days, people still want, you know, there’s still room to party and I love the line “who cares about the rapture when there’s native girls to capture.”
Ahhh if more people thought like that than they're worrying about the rapture I think the world would be a better place, so LOL, if, who knows, it may be the party at the end of the world, so you better keep that one on your invitation list.
Steve: It's The Party At the End Of The World, With Jimmy Buffett, On Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31
Party At the End Of The World
Steve: Party At The End of the World, Jimmy Buffett, on Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31. And that is the name of the tour. And we bring you all those shows live.
Jimmy: Yeah
Steve: And it works very well as a tour title. You don't have to explain that.
Jimmy: Well, It works good as a tour title cause we thought the album was gonna be called that and then we changed the name of the album, but I didn’t think there was any need to change the name of the tour, because as I said, when we’re out there, you know, people are partying like it …you know…why not go out there and party.
Steve: Why not, and they do! And we bring it to ya, here on Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31, so if there is the end of the world and if there is a party, keep your radio handy.
Jimmy: Yeah, we’ll tell you if it happens.
Steve: Yeah, we’ll give you the sound track for ???
Jimmy: Adios!!
Steve: Party at the End of the World used to be the working title of the album right?
Jimmy: Yeah, but I think…it was for a long time, but then I was having to explain it.
And if you have to explain a title to an album or song or anything, then it shouldn’t be a title. In my humble opinion, yeah a title should say it all, it should go “boom that’s it” and people were going, “well, is it party? or is the world ending? what do you mean by that?” and when somebody starts asking you a question like “what do you mean by that” it’s better left as a song.
I love the song. It was inspired by as I mentioned before a trip to Argentina, but then I took Roger and Pete and Will Kimbrough who was a writer on a lot of this stuff… I took them down to St. Barth’s because I always like to write in comfortable places. We rented a little house on the beach put our little garage band and our little apple on there and we kinda sat there and wrote songs for a couple of weeks. And uh, of course, we didn’t work that hard, we worked a couple and in true French style we took lunch off.
So there’s a little Rose wine and fashion shows and there were these lovely French models running around and it was like cowboy day or something and they had these…let’s just say…I don’t have to explain that any further.
So you get inspiration where you can these days, Steve, that’s all I can tell ya-- so—and--Being the satirical thing, the line I love in here is because you know in the middle of the world basically looking like it’s going to hell these days, people still want, you know, there’s still room to party and I love the line “who cares about the rapture when there’s native girls to capture.”
Ahhh if more people thought like that than they're worrying about the rapture I think the world would be a better place, so LOL, if, who knows, it may be the party at the end of the world, so you better keep that one on your invitation list.
Steve: It's The Party At the End Of The World, With Jimmy Buffett, On Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31
Party At the End Of The World
Steve: Party At The End of the World, Jimmy Buffett, on Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31. And that is the name of the tour. And we bring you all those shows live.
Jimmy: Yeah
Steve: And it works very well as a tour title. You don't have to explain that.
Jimmy: Well, It works good as a tour title cause we thought the album was gonna be called that and then we changed the name of the album, but I didn’t think there was any need to change the name of the tour, because as I said, when we’re out there, you know, people are partying like it …you know…why not go out there and party.
Steve: Why not, and they do! And we bring it to ya, here on Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31, so if there is the end of the world and if there is a party, keep your radio handy.
Jimmy: Yeah, we’ll tell you if it happens.
Steve: Yeah, we’ll give you the sound track for ???
Jimmy: Adios!!
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Weather With You:
Steve: Weather With You — it did turn out to be sorta the name of the album — Take The Weather With You. What a great song. I remember when you did it a few years ago one time in Houston. Just wonderful.
Jimmy: Yeah well...you know I have…you keep a bucket of songs going and sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t, but I’m always one that kinda recycles because, and there's that song in particular, I’d met the Finn Brothers in New Zealand, many…when I first went down there to tour and I loved their work when they were in Crowded House and I still do. They’re great writers and I’ve always liked that song and I thought we could do it justice. And, we had attempted, just like we had played it in shows a couple times before and it was always good, but once we got in and somehow we got this track done and it was actually the first thing we cut when we went into the studio cause it just felt so good.
You gotta have a starting point where you’re careful to choose a song like a License To Chill, as Hey Good Lookin something that feels comfortable that not, you’re not trying to learn or be it’s is not a work in progress it’s something that you can go in and you wanna get off on a solid foot when you’re trying to track the way we do …which is, you know, we basically did three tracks a day and we did these 21 tracks in a week. That’s just the way we like to work cause I’m a capture the magic guy, I don't wanna beat this s*** to death, you know?
Weather With You was a very comfortable thing and then what I loved about it was …along the line…our other DJ on…one of our DJs on Radio Margaritaville---what’s her name? Savannah? Oh yeah, Savannah Buffett uhm we were at Jazzfest and she introduced me to the Gomez guys and I went to hear them and I just fell in love with that band. And they remind me a lot of the Finn Brothers. And I like their work a lot and so we started talking and they also were big fans of the Finn Brothers, and I said I’ve cut this track and they were in England right after we left and I asked em.. and they said they’d love to do it, so we just basically…I sent ‘em the track and that is one of the things you can do today ‘ with PRO TOOLS and the ability…with high speed and PRO TOOLS you can get just about get anybody anywhere in the world to be on your record without 'em having to come into a studio. So we took advantage of the technology and then just basically sent the Gomez Guys that and they sent it back and it was just as the English say it was BRILLIANT, I thought.
So and then the other thing is, when we mixed it, I wanted it to really sound like a vocal ensemble and not me with background singers in the back and that’s what I like what Mac did and we talked about that and I sang it like that, because I wanted it to be kinda in that vein that it sounds like it's an ensemble group and it just worked and so again when Party At The End of the World got thrown out as the title Take the Weather With You…Weather With You is the name of the song. But, I’ve been accused of doing that. I’ve been accused of having the ability to take the weather with me when of course I can’t, but it’s usually luck, you know, but clouds have parted after days of rain when we hit the stage on more than one occasion so I’m not gonna try to take credit for the weather, but it seems like a good metaphor and uh, I love this song.
Steve: It is, Everybody, ah, everywhere you go...
Jimmy: Yeah
Steve: Takes the weather with them. Jimmy Buffett, on Radio Margaritaville
Weather With You
Steve: Weather with you on Radio Margaritaville from the new CD Take The Weather With You... Jimmy Buffett and Sirius 31 –what a great production-- great arrangement.
Jimmy: Yeah, that thing just sits there you know… like I said in testing this myself. I always, you know, loved albums that you could put on and just let go and they held up and sometimes I’ve made it and sometimes I hadn’t, but it’s been a lot of them out there, but the goal is... you know, I go back to the albums that I can put on and just listen to just straight through like BLUE, or Deja Vu, or you know or Hendrix (?), you know I remember the albums that that’s the standard of which I try to go is something you can sit there and it just plays itself basically. And I think we might have gotten here on this one and I kinda was feeling that way about “Weather” and a couple of these songs on here as I was giving it the “listen to the whole thing” drive test. It kinda worked.
Steve: It does. There is so much material on here and in a variety of different directions and styles.
Steve: Weather With You — it did turn out to be sorta the name of the album — Take The Weather With You. What a great song. I remember when you did it a few years ago one time in Houston. Just wonderful.
Jimmy: Yeah well...you know I have…you keep a bucket of songs going and sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t, but I’m always one that kinda recycles because, and there's that song in particular, I’d met the Finn Brothers in New Zealand, many…when I first went down there to tour and I loved their work when they were in Crowded House and I still do. They’re great writers and I’ve always liked that song and I thought we could do it justice. And, we had attempted, just like we had played it in shows a couple times before and it was always good, but once we got in and somehow we got this track done and it was actually the first thing we cut when we went into the studio cause it just felt so good.
You gotta have a starting point where you’re careful to choose a song like a License To Chill, as Hey Good Lookin something that feels comfortable that not, you’re not trying to learn or be it’s is not a work in progress it’s something that you can go in and you wanna get off on a solid foot when you’re trying to track the way we do …which is, you know, we basically did three tracks a day and we did these 21 tracks in a week. That’s just the way we like to work cause I’m a capture the magic guy, I don't wanna beat this s*** to death, you know?
Weather With You was a very comfortable thing and then what I loved about it was …along the line…our other DJ on…one of our DJs on Radio Margaritaville---what’s her name? Savannah? Oh yeah, Savannah Buffett uhm we were at Jazzfest and she introduced me to the Gomez guys and I went to hear them and I just fell in love with that band. And they remind me a lot of the Finn Brothers. And I like their work a lot and so we started talking and they also were big fans of the Finn Brothers, and I said I’ve cut this track and they were in England right after we left and I asked em.. and they said they’d love to do it, so we just basically…I sent ‘em the track and that is one of the things you can do today ‘ with PRO TOOLS and the ability…with high speed and PRO TOOLS you can get just about get anybody anywhere in the world to be on your record without 'em having to come into a studio. So we took advantage of the technology and then just basically sent the Gomez Guys that and they sent it back and it was just as the English say it was BRILLIANT, I thought.
So and then the other thing is, when we mixed it, I wanted it to really sound like a vocal ensemble and not me with background singers in the back and that’s what I like what Mac did and we talked about that and I sang it like that, because I wanted it to be kinda in that vein that it sounds like it's an ensemble group and it just worked and so again when Party At The End of the World got thrown out as the title Take the Weather With You…Weather With You is the name of the song. But, I’ve been accused of doing that. I’ve been accused of having the ability to take the weather with me when of course I can’t, but it’s usually luck, you know, but clouds have parted after days of rain when we hit the stage on more than one occasion so I’m not gonna try to take credit for the weather, but it seems like a good metaphor and uh, I love this song.
Steve: It is, Everybody, ah, everywhere you go...
Jimmy: Yeah
Steve: Takes the weather with them. Jimmy Buffett, on Radio Margaritaville
Weather With You
Steve: Weather with you on Radio Margaritaville from the new CD Take The Weather With You... Jimmy Buffett and Sirius 31 –what a great production-- great arrangement.
Jimmy: Yeah, that thing just sits there you know… like I said in testing this myself. I always, you know, loved albums that you could put on and just let go and they held up and sometimes I’ve made it and sometimes I hadn’t, but it’s been a lot of them out there, but the goal is... you know, I go back to the albums that I can put on and just listen to just straight through like BLUE, or Deja Vu, or you know or Hendrix (?), you know I remember the albums that that’s the standard of which I try to go is something you can sit there and it just plays itself basically. And I think we might have gotten here on this one and I kinda was feeling that way about “Weather” and a couple of these songs on here as I was giving it the “listen to the whole thing” drive test. It kinda worked.
Steve: It does. There is so much material on here and in a variety of different directions and styles.
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Everybody’s On The Phone:
This next one Everybody’s on the Phone, is uh… comes from …well you alluded to that songwriting session in St Barth’s.
Jimmy: Yeah this one came out of there. But actually this song was started… I started this thing… I remember going the first time I saw people— like the entire population around you on the phone, I went to Hong Kong about 6 years ago. And you know, there are huge buildings, but the apartments are about the size of plastic water bottles or something, so everybody’s outside and I mean everybody had a cell phone and you didn’t see it in America 6 years ago, what happens here today. You know you’re walking— we’re in New York you walk down the street, I look and if you tried to count everybody who is on the phone around you when you’re walking down 6th Avenue or something you’d be counting awhile.
Well the first thing I did was I went out and bought a lot of telephone stock. LOL, I bought a lot of Nokia and I knew it was coming and I did quite well with that...
Steve: LOL
Jimmy: But uh, but then the inspiration for something, I kept that, and then what you also see is at shows now. It started at shows maybe 4 years ago. People holding the phone up, and a few people, but now when we did the Garden, Madison Square Garden, I debuted it… I played Everybody’s on the Phone for the first time ---cause they were. And you looked out and then when they heard the song, it went over BIG, and it is, you know there always has to be humor in a collection of songs that I’m gonna attempt and uh this is uh we were in need of some humor. I wanted another kinda fun song and we started it and I kinda handed-- I wrote the first verse, and the chorus, and handed it off to Will Kimbrough who is just I think you know, the unsung people that I’m going to mention from all the players on this album…
To also Will Kimbrough who wrote Piece of Work and he wrote a song on the Little Feat Album we’re doing called Champion of the World. He’s a great young songwriter, well, he’s not young anymore, he's, cause I’m so old, I mean, uh, he’s much younger than me. But I, I just loved his take on things when you’re looking for collaboration— that’s what I, the fresh approach —he’s a very kind of John Lennon based writer and I like that and he, he uh, just took off and ran with it and I finished it up and it just it just instantly –it makes you smile and that’s and then, you know we wanted to just, we needed, not only is it fun but when we got to do the track, it is a real driving kind of track; I mean it’s straight ahead, no holds barred, there’s no minor chords in this one, and it's just straight ahead and fun.
Steve: On Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31, Everybody’s on the Phone
Everybody’s On The Phone
Steve: Everybody’s on the Phone and we’re on the phone with Jimmy Buffett. Nah, we’re face to face on Radio Margaritaville going through the new stuff.
Jimmy: Face to face.
Steve: We’re looking live at Jimmy Buffett… Take The Weather With You is the new release and we’ve got it for you here on Radio Margaritaville and Jimmy, good to have you right here in the studio.
Jimmy: Yeah, great to be with you, Steve.
This next one Everybody’s on the Phone, is uh… comes from …well you alluded to that songwriting session in St Barth’s.
Jimmy: Yeah this one came out of there. But actually this song was started… I started this thing… I remember going the first time I saw people— like the entire population around you on the phone, I went to Hong Kong about 6 years ago. And you know, there are huge buildings, but the apartments are about the size of plastic water bottles or something, so everybody’s outside and I mean everybody had a cell phone and you didn’t see it in America 6 years ago, what happens here today. You know you’re walking— we’re in New York you walk down the street, I look and if you tried to count everybody who is on the phone around you when you’re walking down 6th Avenue or something you’d be counting awhile.
Well the first thing I did was I went out and bought a lot of telephone stock. LOL, I bought a lot of Nokia and I knew it was coming and I did quite well with that...
Steve: LOL
Jimmy: But uh, but then the inspiration for something, I kept that, and then what you also see is at shows now. It started at shows maybe 4 years ago. People holding the phone up, and a few people, but now when we did the Garden, Madison Square Garden, I debuted it… I played Everybody’s on the Phone for the first time ---cause they were. And you looked out and then when they heard the song, it went over BIG, and it is, you know there always has to be humor in a collection of songs that I’m gonna attempt and uh this is uh we were in need of some humor. I wanted another kinda fun song and we started it and I kinda handed-- I wrote the first verse, and the chorus, and handed it off to Will Kimbrough who is just I think you know, the unsung people that I’m going to mention from all the players on this album…
To also Will Kimbrough who wrote Piece of Work and he wrote a song on the Little Feat Album we’re doing called Champion of the World. He’s a great young songwriter, well, he’s not young anymore, he's, cause I’m so old, I mean, uh, he’s much younger than me. But I, I just loved his take on things when you’re looking for collaboration— that’s what I, the fresh approach —he’s a very kind of John Lennon based writer and I like that and he, he uh, just took off and ran with it and I finished it up and it just it just instantly –it makes you smile and that’s and then, you know we wanted to just, we needed, not only is it fun but when we got to do the track, it is a real driving kind of track; I mean it’s straight ahead, no holds barred, there’s no minor chords in this one, and it's just straight ahead and fun.
Steve: On Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31, Everybody’s on the Phone
Everybody’s On The Phone
Steve: Everybody’s on the Phone and we’re on the phone with Jimmy Buffett. Nah, we’re face to face on Radio Margaritaville going through the new stuff.
Jimmy: Face to face.
Steve: We’re looking live at Jimmy Buffett… Take The Weather With You is the new release and we’ve got it for you here on Radio Margaritaville and Jimmy, good to have you right here in the studio.
Jimmy: Yeah, great to be with you, Steve.
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Whoop De Doo:
Steve: And, uh, whoop de doo
Jimmy: Whoop de doo, Mark Knopfler, what do you say? I mean… Truly one of my favorite writers, performers and guitar players and I was lucky enough on a few occasions over the last few years to run into Mark at shows. We actually were in the studio about a month apart when we did Volcano and Dire Straits did Brothers In Arms in Air Montserrat down in Montserrat. And I’d always been a fan, a huge fan of everything Mark had done and then we always were coming— he spends a lot of time in Nashville and we were coming through and I’d heard this song on, I’m trying to think, it’s not on, uh the album before this one, it’s not Sailing--- Maybe it’s Sailing To Philadelphia, I think it might be on.. but I got em all and he takes such great stuff from a rock n roll based guitar player with a love of country and does what I consider as good of modern country stuff as there is, that’s still pop, you know what country music has become which is kind of an off spin of what we were doing 30 years ago, I think he’s the best at it though he doesn’t get the credit for it. So that song, it sounded like something like Harlan Howard would have written or Billy Sherrill, people that you know the classic songwriters who wrote those great songs back in the 70s and 80s and so I took that song and I wanted to record it. When we recorded it we were down in Key West and Chuck Raney who’s co-producer on the album he did with Emmylou— Chuck was down doing George Strait in our studio, and I played him that track and he went “Mark’s gotta hear that,” so I sent it to him, and emailed it to him, we’d been in email contact and he said, “Would you like me to do something on it… I went “DUH” LOL
Steve: NICE
Jimmy: And so we wound up, uh, I had, I was taking my son to the World Cup and I had some business in London and so Mark was on tour over here but, we did a lot of the vocals in his studio in this little room that he had designed based on his first room and ironically a lot of the guys working in the studio I had known from the “Air” days in Montserrat, so it was a very comfortable environment and we did all the vocals and I just again?? left him this track. And the funny thing was I had been in New York and we were working on the album and Mac McAnally who was of course, one of the producers on here, had.. we were at dinner one night and I said what are you doing after? He said “We’re going down to see Les Paul.” And I went “To the cemetery?” LOL
Steve: Aw, come on
Jimmy: Well, I didn’t know he was still alive, I mean, and he said NO NO, he plays every Monday night at the Jazz Club under the Meridian Theater down on Broadway. Well, Jesus, Les Paul, for those youngsters out there don’t know— Les Paul’s probably was the original smart musician in the terms of a great player, but how he managed, he was a radio star who became a TV star with his wife, Mary Ford, but he was also a very smart business man. And I had always known that, he was always not only one of my musical heroes, but in how to wiggle you way through this idiotic world of show business and come out with a little money and your mind, it’s interspersing, you need people to look up to and he always was that, so I immediately said “Yeah, let’s go down, so, I just wanna go hear him and he’s 92 years old and he plays every Monday night and we’re working, I’m trying to get his show on the radio station after I saw it. Well, he didn’t know who I was. He introduced me, his son who is 74, Les, Jr got me up on stage and he said it’s "Jimmy from Florida". LOL. That’s all he said.
Steve: Unassuming intro, LOL
Jimmy: Yeah, so I got up and played Margaritaville, played a Fred Neil song with him. He’s got a great band and they had a good time, but finally he figured out.. somebody told him who I was. We had a great visit backstage and I went out and I bought a couple of old Les Paul and Mary Ford albums and just 'cause I hadn’t heard 'em in 30 years… my mother had 'em. And I listened and I thought “man, you know what they did back then— she sang, he played a guitar and basically it was like a guitar vocal duet" and it was a really unique style; he was such a great player and I thought “You know, that what, that’s the way we should maybe approach “Whoop De Doo” and then I thought, “I am not gonna call Mark Knopfler and suggest how he should play his guitar on his song LOL. I went, “Are you nuts?” So I left it alone. I didn’t call him or anything and when I got it back from him he had done it and that’s … it’s my favorite song on this record and there’s a lot of stuff that I like on here but the coming together and singing with Mark Knopfler playing guitar and it is a vocal guitar duet and boy did he play, and it’s just a pleasure to listen to him and I don’t listen to myself much, but I listen to this one. LOL
And you know, it’s a culmination of a dream-come-true and a nicer guy you’d ever want to me, so well Whoop De Doo
Steve: On Radio Margaritaville
Whoop De Doo
Steve: Whoop De Doo. Take The Weather With You. Jimmy Buffett's latest for the year 2006.
Jimmy: That's a guitar solo, huh?
Steve: Ohhh yeah. (Jimmy: LOL) Mark Knopfler (Jimmy: yeah), and this tune, one of the highlights, one of the many highlights of Take The Weather With You. Jimmy Buffett with me Steve Huntington on Radio Margaritaville Sirius 31.
Steve: And, uh, whoop de doo
Jimmy: Whoop de doo, Mark Knopfler, what do you say? I mean… Truly one of my favorite writers, performers and guitar players and I was lucky enough on a few occasions over the last few years to run into Mark at shows. We actually were in the studio about a month apart when we did Volcano and Dire Straits did Brothers In Arms in Air Montserrat down in Montserrat. And I’d always been a fan, a huge fan of everything Mark had done and then we always were coming— he spends a lot of time in Nashville and we were coming through and I’d heard this song on, I’m trying to think, it’s not on, uh the album before this one, it’s not Sailing--- Maybe it’s Sailing To Philadelphia, I think it might be on.. but I got em all and he takes such great stuff from a rock n roll based guitar player with a love of country and does what I consider as good of modern country stuff as there is, that’s still pop, you know what country music has become which is kind of an off spin of what we were doing 30 years ago, I think he’s the best at it though he doesn’t get the credit for it. So that song, it sounded like something like Harlan Howard would have written or Billy Sherrill, people that you know the classic songwriters who wrote those great songs back in the 70s and 80s and so I took that song and I wanted to record it. When we recorded it we were down in Key West and Chuck Raney who’s co-producer on the album he did with Emmylou— Chuck was down doing George Strait in our studio, and I played him that track and he went “Mark’s gotta hear that,” so I sent it to him, and emailed it to him, we’d been in email contact and he said, “Would you like me to do something on it… I went “DUH” LOL
Steve: NICE
Jimmy: And so we wound up, uh, I had, I was taking my son to the World Cup and I had some business in London and so Mark was on tour over here but, we did a lot of the vocals in his studio in this little room that he had designed based on his first room and ironically a lot of the guys working in the studio I had known from the “Air” days in Montserrat, so it was a very comfortable environment and we did all the vocals and I just again?? left him this track. And the funny thing was I had been in New York and we were working on the album and Mac McAnally who was of course, one of the producers on here, had.. we were at dinner one night and I said what are you doing after? He said “We’re going down to see Les Paul.” And I went “To the cemetery?” LOL
Steve: Aw, come on
Jimmy: Well, I didn’t know he was still alive, I mean, and he said NO NO, he plays every Monday night at the Jazz Club under the Meridian Theater down on Broadway. Well, Jesus, Les Paul, for those youngsters out there don’t know— Les Paul’s probably was the original smart musician in the terms of a great player, but how he managed, he was a radio star who became a TV star with his wife, Mary Ford, but he was also a very smart business man. And I had always known that, he was always not only one of my musical heroes, but in how to wiggle you way through this idiotic world of show business and come out with a little money and your mind, it’s interspersing, you need people to look up to and he always was that, so I immediately said “Yeah, let’s go down, so, I just wanna go hear him and he’s 92 years old and he plays every Monday night and we’re working, I’m trying to get his show on the radio station after I saw it. Well, he didn’t know who I was. He introduced me, his son who is 74, Les, Jr got me up on stage and he said it’s "Jimmy from Florida". LOL. That’s all he said.
Steve: Unassuming intro, LOL
Jimmy: Yeah, so I got up and played Margaritaville, played a Fred Neil song with him. He’s got a great band and they had a good time, but finally he figured out.. somebody told him who I was. We had a great visit backstage and I went out and I bought a couple of old Les Paul and Mary Ford albums and just 'cause I hadn’t heard 'em in 30 years… my mother had 'em. And I listened and I thought “man, you know what they did back then— she sang, he played a guitar and basically it was like a guitar vocal duet" and it was a really unique style; he was such a great player and I thought “You know, that what, that’s the way we should maybe approach “Whoop De Doo” and then I thought, “I am not gonna call Mark Knopfler and suggest how he should play his guitar on his song LOL. I went, “Are you nuts?” So I left it alone. I didn’t call him or anything and when I got it back from him he had done it and that’s … it’s my favorite song on this record and there’s a lot of stuff that I like on here but the coming together and singing with Mark Knopfler playing guitar and it is a vocal guitar duet and boy did he play, and it’s just a pleasure to listen to him and I don’t listen to myself much, but I listen to this one. LOL
And you know, it’s a culmination of a dream-come-true and a nicer guy you’d ever want to me, so well Whoop De Doo
Steve: On Radio Margaritaville
Whoop De Doo
Steve: Whoop De Doo. Take The Weather With You. Jimmy Buffett's latest for the year 2006.
Jimmy: That's a guitar solo, huh?
Steve: Ohhh yeah. (Jimmy: LOL) Mark Knopfler (Jimmy: yeah), and this tune, one of the highlights, one of the many highlights of Take The Weather With You. Jimmy Buffett with me Steve Huntington on Radio Margaritaville Sirius 31.
Nothing But A Breeze:
Steve: Nothing But A Breeze - We could have had a parrothead pool to guess what would be the next Jesse Winchester song that Jimmy would put down (Jimmy: well…) for a record
Jimmy: It was either gonna be that one or Gentleman of Leisure.
Steve: Ahh, those would have been two of my or.., you know, maybe, you never recorded Mississippi, You’re On My Mind
Jimmy: Mississippi, You’re On My Mind. No I haven’t done that. I wanna do that one day, but you know, I’ve always, I always go that, it’s like I’ve got a great bullpen out there, you know. My Canadian bullpen (Steve: yeah) with Bruce Cockburn and Jesse and (Steve and Jimmy: Lennie Gallant) and you know one day I’m gonna do Gordon Lightfoot Early On Early Morning Rain… I swear I’m gonna do that one.
Steve: Good, this song has always been a favorite. It’s was out of print for years.
Jimmy: It’s about 25 years old I think, the song is, and you know it just fit. I mean we’d been doing for so long and again you drop that in on this great band and great arrangements that we kinda make up head arrangements and then you put, like I said, Utley and Billy Payne and, and Mac in there and Roger and one of the things that we did on this album that I'll give you a little hint on-- it was very interesting cause we had Glenn Worf, who plays with Mark on the road, and is a great bass player from Nashville, wonderful guy and Jim Mayer came down— we were, our idea was to use them on certain songs. I had in mind who I wanted on which songs— cause they, they’re great, both great bass players and... but there were certain styles that I wanted and they came up with the idea and Mac, we actually recorded on several of these tracks it’s double bass, it’s kinda like The Dead and double drums, but you’ll hear Jim probably playing the upright bass and Glenn on electric and like on Party At The End of the World it's definitely— if you listen to the bass on that you’re going, “man, how’d they get that sound?” Well, that’s what we did, and Nothin But A Breeze was the same thing on sev… we just let them figure out which ones. We didn’t say anything, you know, and I’d look in there and they’d figure out which, on which song that little trick would work and this is one of 'em.. and this was another one. This was like the second song in there. You can... this is just like layin’ a slow curve over the plate— it's just, you can knock this one out of the park and that’s, that's what, you know, and Jesse Winchester songs always wind up on Jimmy Buffett records and I think they will for a long time.
Steve: Jimmy Buffett’s at the plate. It’s a hanging curve comin in… he swings on Radio Margaritaville Sirius 31.
Nothing But A Breeze
Steve: Nothing But A Breeze from the pen of Jesse Winchester with a couple of liberties taken by Jimmy Buffett (Jimmy: Well I did, yeah, the, that ah) Nassau
Jimmy: I threw a little conch salad in there in Nassau (Steve: Yep, yep, good stuff) I didn’t think anybody was old enough to remember what a pawpaw was
Steve: There ya go and you be my awesome grandma and I’ll be your longboard grandpa
Jimmy: Well, yeah, put a little surf in.. (Steve: absolutely) you know, I just gotta, I mean, we call it Buffettizing (Steve: Yeah and I don’t think Jesse minds a bit) I haven’t gotten a letter from Jesse’s lawyer yet and if it would it’d be in French so I, I'll usually run from French lawyers. LOL!
Steve: I think they'll be very very happy, Jimmy. Nothing But A Breeze.
Jimmy: Checks in the mail, Jesse!
Steve: LOL, Yeah, there ya go, Take The Weather With You
Steve: Nothing But A Breeze - We could have had a parrothead pool to guess what would be the next Jesse Winchester song that Jimmy would put down (Jimmy: well…) for a record
Jimmy: It was either gonna be that one or Gentleman of Leisure.
Steve: Ahh, those would have been two of my or.., you know, maybe, you never recorded Mississippi, You’re On My Mind
Jimmy: Mississippi, You’re On My Mind. No I haven’t done that. I wanna do that one day, but you know, I’ve always, I always go that, it’s like I’ve got a great bullpen out there, you know. My Canadian bullpen (Steve: yeah) with Bruce Cockburn and Jesse and (Steve and Jimmy: Lennie Gallant) and you know one day I’m gonna do Gordon Lightfoot Early On Early Morning Rain… I swear I’m gonna do that one.
Steve: Good, this song has always been a favorite. It’s was out of print for years.
Jimmy: It’s about 25 years old I think, the song is, and you know it just fit. I mean we’d been doing for so long and again you drop that in on this great band and great arrangements that we kinda make up head arrangements and then you put, like I said, Utley and Billy Payne and, and Mac in there and Roger and one of the things that we did on this album that I'll give you a little hint on-- it was very interesting cause we had Glenn Worf, who plays with Mark on the road, and is a great bass player from Nashville, wonderful guy and Jim Mayer came down— we were, our idea was to use them on certain songs. I had in mind who I wanted on which songs— cause they, they’re great, both great bass players and... but there were certain styles that I wanted and they came up with the idea and Mac, we actually recorded on several of these tracks it’s double bass, it’s kinda like The Dead and double drums, but you’ll hear Jim probably playing the upright bass and Glenn on electric and like on Party At The End of the World it's definitely— if you listen to the bass on that you’re going, “man, how’d they get that sound?” Well, that’s what we did, and Nothin But A Breeze was the same thing on sev… we just let them figure out which ones. We didn’t say anything, you know, and I’d look in there and they’d figure out which, on which song that little trick would work and this is one of 'em.. and this was another one. This was like the second song in there. You can... this is just like layin’ a slow curve over the plate— it's just, you can knock this one out of the park and that’s, that's what, you know, and Jesse Winchester songs always wind up on Jimmy Buffett records and I think they will for a long time.
Steve: Jimmy Buffett’s at the plate. It’s a hanging curve comin in… he swings on Radio Margaritaville Sirius 31.
Nothing But A Breeze
Steve: Nothing But A Breeze from the pen of Jesse Winchester with a couple of liberties taken by Jimmy Buffett (Jimmy: Well I did, yeah, the, that ah) Nassau
Jimmy: I threw a little conch salad in there in Nassau (Steve: Yep, yep, good stuff) I didn’t think anybody was old enough to remember what a pawpaw was
Steve: There ya go and you be my awesome grandma and I’ll be your longboard grandpa
Jimmy: Well, yeah, put a little surf in.. (Steve: absolutely) you know, I just gotta, I mean, we call it Buffettizing (Steve: Yeah and I don’t think Jesse minds a bit) I haven’t gotten a letter from Jesse’s lawyer yet and if it would it’d be in French so I, I'll usually run from French lawyers. LOL!
Steve: I think they'll be very very happy, Jimmy. Nothing But A Breeze.
Jimmy: Checks in the mail, Jesse!
Steve: LOL, Yeah, there ya go, Take The Weather With You
Cinco De Mayo In Memphis:
Steve: And now we go to Memphis.
Jimmy: Yeah and Guy Clark. There’s another one. There another one of my relief pitchers out there. Uh, Guy is an old, old friend and when I heard this, this came again from Renee, and it was just quirky enough, I mean, the idea, the visual of Mexican towboat operators dressing up, getting off the boat going to Graceland, who couldn’t have interpreted that? And we got, we got John Lovell gets to go off. We needed some place to put John Lovell’s wonderful mariachi trumpet (Steve: You found it.) So Johnny Lovell shines on this as he always does and on, and again, you know, there’s always a spot for him somewhere on it… again, here’s your humor. You know, you look in there and like I said, if I’m doing the albums I’m thinking humor, set list, energy up and down, so here’s another song that hopefully just makes you smile at the “what what, where’d he come up with that?” I didn’t write it… Guy Clark did. :::Laughs:::
Steve: Cinco de Mayo in Memphis on Radio Margaritaville Sirius 31.
Cinco De Mayo In Memphis
Steve: Cinco de Mayo in Memphis co-written by Guy Clark and Chuck Mead and performed by Jimmy Buffett and his Merry Studio Coral Reefer Band (Jimmy: yeah) a great batch of musicians and producers and arrangers. Credit goes to Mike Utley and Mac McAnally and you, Jimmy, again for coming up with a record that is full of good stuff.
Jimmy: Well, it’s still, hey, it’s nice still to be makin' records and that are, you know, I never thought we’d be making them for this many people, I figured we’d have a hardcore base by this time we’d be makin little records… but THANKS. LOL! We’re still rolling along here.
Steve: And doing it very well. The depth in your albums and you can just look over the years you know, there is the show mode and that speaks for itself (Jimmy: and) because of how good a time it is and how every ticket gets gobbled up. But on the other side of the ledger, there are these albums that are just so chocked full of stuff, and the deeper ya listen the more you get out of 'em.
Jimmy: Well it's, ya know, I look at it as journeyman work and as a writer you know, to make an album and, and like I said, lucky enough to be involved in a lot of different things these days. This is serious business for me. I mean it’s what I started doin, it’s what created everything else, so and it’s not only in my world, I like the business still has to be fun and this is probably the most serious and fun time I have is in the studio 'cause it’s really magic when you get in those musicians and like this band that we’ve made some changes in the band and, and uh, for the better, and I think change is good, but we don't... there’s very ever drastic change in what we do but, you know, the addition of Sonny Landreth more in what we do and Bill Payne and Mike Utley on keyboards… you couldn’t be covered in keyboards better than that. And then you drop on top of that a little Jake Shimabukuro on ukulele who we found in Hawaii. Mac said “you gotta go see this kid.” And the next thing you know I hired him. I said, “I want you to come play in my band.” Uh a virtuoso, ya know, and an amazing and not only player, but he brings such a great energy.
And, uh, yeah, you get all these guys in there and it happens and uh, and it’s still fun to do, and, but it is serious work and we take it that way. It’s not like, “Ok, what’re we going to do?” There’s a lot of thought that goes into this. LOL!
Steve: And now we go to Memphis.
Jimmy: Yeah and Guy Clark. There’s another one. There another one of my relief pitchers out there. Uh, Guy is an old, old friend and when I heard this, this came again from Renee, and it was just quirky enough, I mean, the idea, the visual of Mexican towboat operators dressing up, getting off the boat going to Graceland, who couldn’t have interpreted that? And we got, we got John Lovell gets to go off. We needed some place to put John Lovell’s wonderful mariachi trumpet (Steve: You found it.) So Johnny Lovell shines on this as he always does and on, and again, you know, there’s always a spot for him somewhere on it… again, here’s your humor. You know, you look in there and like I said, if I’m doing the albums I’m thinking humor, set list, energy up and down, so here’s another song that hopefully just makes you smile at the “what what, where’d he come up with that?” I didn’t write it… Guy Clark did. :::Laughs:::
Steve: Cinco de Mayo in Memphis on Radio Margaritaville Sirius 31.
Cinco De Mayo In Memphis
Steve: Cinco de Mayo in Memphis co-written by Guy Clark and Chuck Mead and performed by Jimmy Buffett and his Merry Studio Coral Reefer Band (Jimmy: yeah) a great batch of musicians and producers and arrangers. Credit goes to Mike Utley and Mac McAnally and you, Jimmy, again for coming up with a record that is full of good stuff.
Jimmy: Well, it’s still, hey, it’s nice still to be makin' records and that are, you know, I never thought we’d be making them for this many people, I figured we’d have a hardcore base by this time we’d be makin little records… but THANKS. LOL! We’re still rolling along here.
Steve: And doing it very well. The depth in your albums and you can just look over the years you know, there is the show mode and that speaks for itself (Jimmy: and) because of how good a time it is and how every ticket gets gobbled up. But on the other side of the ledger, there are these albums that are just so chocked full of stuff, and the deeper ya listen the more you get out of 'em.
Jimmy: Well it's, ya know, I look at it as journeyman work and as a writer you know, to make an album and, and like I said, lucky enough to be involved in a lot of different things these days. This is serious business for me. I mean it’s what I started doin, it’s what created everything else, so and it’s not only in my world, I like the business still has to be fun and this is probably the most serious and fun time I have is in the studio 'cause it’s really magic when you get in those musicians and like this band that we’ve made some changes in the band and, and uh, for the better, and I think change is good, but we don't... there’s very ever drastic change in what we do but, you know, the addition of Sonny Landreth more in what we do and Bill Payne and Mike Utley on keyboards… you couldn’t be covered in keyboards better than that. And then you drop on top of that a little Jake Shimabukuro on ukulele who we found in Hawaii. Mac said “you gotta go see this kid.” And the next thing you know I hired him. I said, “I want you to come play in my band.” Uh a virtuoso, ya know, and an amazing and not only player, but he brings such a great energy.
And, uh, yeah, you get all these guys in there and it happens and uh, and it’s still fun to do, and, but it is serious work and we take it that way. It’s not like, “Ok, what’re we going to do?” There’s a lot of thought that goes into this. LOL!
Reggabilly Hill:
Steve: We’re up to Reggabilly Hill
Jimmy: Up Reggabilly Hill, now there’s one, I mean this one, I got a great note, I wish I could remember the story-- this email I got from the writer, but this came as like a demo through, gosh I’m trying to think of uh Russ Titelman who I'd worked with before had done an album on (Steve: Jared Tyler) Jared Tyler… thank you very much, Mr Know It All (Steve: That's where I first heard the song, yeah). You’re like Mr –remember on Rocky and Bullwinkle, there was Mr Know It All? (Steve: I do remember that) that’s kinda like… You’re gonna be my Mr. Know It all.
Steve: Well, Russ Titelman is a great fellow and produced with you, Far Side of the World, and that was his next project after Far Side of the World, so with both, it caught each our ???
Jimmy: He came to me looking for a deal on Jared Tyler, that’s what it was, and I heard the record and I loved the record, but I really loved that song and it, that was one I knew I was gonna do.
Steve: That’s why we’ve always played Jared Tyler's version (Jimmy: yeah) on Radio Margaritaville. (Jimmy: it was such a) And it was in your back pocket.
Jimmy: Well, I knew it was such a Jamaican thing and, you know, I got a little contact in Jamaica and I had been down to, a friend of mine had a 60th Birthday Party at Goldeneye and I was with Chris Blackwell and he had a band playing and I said “Who’s that band?” And he said, “Well that’s Ernie Ranglin” and Ernest Ranglin is a legendary guitar player, for those who don’t know who was on all of the initial Bob Marley stuff, going back to Millie Small on My Boy Lollipop and Ernie is just a classic gentleman… a player and I said I want that original, the original reggae chinka chinka chinka… that’s Ernie Ranglin.
So we took him to London and he’s on this-- he’s on this and he’s on Silver Wings, and so Ernest is on this record too. (Steve: That’s fabulous)
And I wanted him on Reggabilly Hill because this is for some, this and me, this is my second favorite song on the record. I don’t know why, but it just speaks to me. I just like the story and I like what it says and I love that groove and it’s another one of those you can hear that double bass and then there’s Ernie Rangel in there and it’s just, and it's pretty straight ahead. I mean it was the…
Steve: you can hear the Coral Reeferettes singing on it too.
Jimmy: Well, when you think about it, you know, most reggae was basically... it came about from country radio being broadcast on those old huge AM stations and that’s all they could get in Jamaica back in the 50's and then the Jamaicans took that and made reggae out of it, so it’s pretty, you know, it’s pretty connected and if you go into the country of Jamaica now or any of the Caribbean islands where I go all the time, ya know, country music still is really big and I think it comes from those days when it was only those high powered radio stations broadcasting… that’s all they can pick up. And it left, uh, and then, you know from soca to ska to everything else you listen to a lot of the, you know, and calypso, it’s connected and I think that what Reggabilly Hill kinda says.
Steve: On Radio Margaritaville with Jimmy Buffett Sirius 31
Reggabilly Hill
Steve: Reggabilly Hill on Jimmy Buffett's new one, Take The Weather With You on Radio Margaritaville Sirius 31
Steve: We’re up to Reggabilly Hill
Jimmy: Up Reggabilly Hill, now there’s one, I mean this one, I got a great note, I wish I could remember the story-- this email I got from the writer, but this came as like a demo through, gosh I’m trying to think of uh Russ Titelman who I'd worked with before had done an album on (Steve: Jared Tyler) Jared Tyler… thank you very much, Mr Know It All (Steve: That's where I first heard the song, yeah). You’re like Mr –remember on Rocky and Bullwinkle, there was Mr Know It All? (Steve: I do remember that) that’s kinda like… You’re gonna be my Mr. Know It all.
Steve: Well, Russ Titelman is a great fellow and produced with you, Far Side of the World, and that was his next project after Far Side of the World, so with both, it caught each our ???
Jimmy: He came to me looking for a deal on Jared Tyler, that’s what it was, and I heard the record and I loved the record, but I really loved that song and it, that was one I knew I was gonna do.
Steve: That’s why we’ve always played Jared Tyler's version (Jimmy: yeah) on Radio Margaritaville. (Jimmy: it was such a) And it was in your back pocket.
Jimmy: Well, I knew it was such a Jamaican thing and, you know, I got a little contact in Jamaica and I had been down to, a friend of mine had a 60th Birthday Party at Goldeneye and I was with Chris Blackwell and he had a band playing and I said “Who’s that band?” And he said, “Well that’s Ernie Ranglin” and Ernest Ranglin is a legendary guitar player, for those who don’t know who was on all of the initial Bob Marley stuff, going back to Millie Small on My Boy Lollipop and Ernie is just a classic gentleman… a player and I said I want that original, the original reggae chinka chinka chinka… that’s Ernie Ranglin.
So we took him to London and he’s on this-- he’s on this and he’s on Silver Wings, and so Ernest is on this record too. (Steve: That’s fabulous)
And I wanted him on Reggabilly Hill because this is for some, this and me, this is my second favorite song on the record. I don’t know why, but it just speaks to me. I just like the story and I like what it says and I love that groove and it’s another one of those you can hear that double bass and then there’s Ernie Rangel in there and it’s just, and it's pretty straight ahead. I mean it was the…
Steve: you can hear the Coral Reeferettes singing on it too.
Jimmy: Well, when you think about it, you know, most reggae was basically... it came about from country radio being broadcast on those old huge AM stations and that’s all they could get in Jamaica back in the 50's and then the Jamaicans took that and made reggae out of it, so it’s pretty, you know, it’s pretty connected and if you go into the country of Jamaica now or any of the Caribbean islands where I go all the time, ya know, country music still is really big and I think it comes from those days when it was only those high powered radio stations broadcasting… that’s all they can pick up. And it left, uh, and then, you know from soca to ska to everything else you listen to a lot of the, you know, and calypso, it’s connected and I think that what Reggabilly Hill kinda says.
Steve: On Radio Margaritaville with Jimmy Buffett Sirius 31
Reggabilly Hill
Steve: Reggabilly Hill on Jimmy Buffett's new one, Take The Weather With You on Radio Margaritaville Sirius 31
Elvis Presley Blues:
Steve: And, uh, what a great batch of tunes; some uh (Jimmy: Yeah we're gettin there, LOL) some you’ve come up with and some you found in other places, like this one (Jimmy: Yeah), Elvis Presley Blues
Jimmy: Gillian Welch
Steve: Yeah
Jimmy: A Berklee School of Music student
Steve: hmm
Jimmy: Yeah, I mean there...
Steve: She there at Liv Taylor’s class? LOL!
Jimmy: I, uh, I don’t know, I can’t remember, but uh, we, I love this song, I love her stuff, but then when I heard it, uh, I wanted to do this arrangement, I wanted to do it like… well, Johnny Cash had just died and when I was thinking about it, we took Elvis Presley Blues, but I wanted to do it like the Tennessee Three used to play with Johnny Cash. Ya know I used to see them because back in another life, uh, my first wife was an assistant talent coordinator on the Old Johnny Cash Show in Nashville, back when they did it in the Opry House and an incredible number of people came through and saw that show, uh, and I used to go to all the shows and sneak in cause my ex-wife could get me in, but I mean, I saw Derek and the Dominoes. I saw Neil Young back there, Joni Mitchell-- I knew. Cash had not only all the country stars, but he reached out, and whoever has those tapes, they ought to put them back out (Steve: Yeah), because there was some amazing people— Dylan came through in those days. (Steve: Right)
So, but, Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three would always open that show and I loved that little trio so we went to that and I said Pete Mayer, you now have to, you have to be, LOL, think Tennessee Three, and boy did he come through. Pete really shines on this thing and, and it’s exactly what I wanted it to be and uh, I just uh-- and it’s a far cry from, from Gillian’s arrangement on her album, so I hope that she likes it but, uh, it just seemed, it needed to be a Rockabilly thing I thought— for me. And so, that’s what we did.
Steve: Elvis Presley Blues on Radio Margaritaville Sirius 31
Elvis Presley Blues
Steve: Elvis Presley Blues from the pen of Gillian Welch on Radio Margaritaville. Jimmy Buffett doin' it on Take The Weather With You. And we’re going through all the songs, so this is, this is as good a travel log as you could get into the (Jimmy: Yeah) music that Jimmy is putting out on this new album.
Steve: And, uh, what a great batch of tunes; some uh (Jimmy: Yeah we're gettin there, LOL) some you’ve come up with and some you found in other places, like this one (Jimmy: Yeah), Elvis Presley Blues
Jimmy: Gillian Welch
Steve: Yeah
Jimmy: A Berklee School of Music student
Steve: hmm
Jimmy: Yeah, I mean there...
Steve: She there at Liv Taylor’s class? LOL!
Jimmy: I, uh, I don’t know, I can’t remember, but uh, we, I love this song, I love her stuff, but then when I heard it, uh, I wanted to do this arrangement, I wanted to do it like… well, Johnny Cash had just died and when I was thinking about it, we took Elvis Presley Blues, but I wanted to do it like the Tennessee Three used to play with Johnny Cash. Ya know I used to see them because back in another life, uh, my first wife was an assistant talent coordinator on the Old Johnny Cash Show in Nashville, back when they did it in the Opry House and an incredible number of people came through and saw that show, uh, and I used to go to all the shows and sneak in cause my ex-wife could get me in, but I mean, I saw Derek and the Dominoes. I saw Neil Young back there, Joni Mitchell-- I knew. Cash had not only all the country stars, but he reached out, and whoever has those tapes, they ought to put them back out (Steve: Yeah), because there was some amazing people— Dylan came through in those days. (Steve: Right)
So, but, Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three would always open that show and I loved that little trio so we went to that and I said Pete Mayer, you now have to, you have to be, LOL, think Tennessee Three, and boy did he come through. Pete really shines on this thing and, and it’s exactly what I wanted it to be and uh, I just uh-- and it’s a far cry from, from Gillian’s arrangement on her album, so I hope that she likes it but, uh, it just seemed, it needed to be a Rockabilly thing I thought— for me. And so, that’s what we did.
Steve: Elvis Presley Blues on Radio Margaritaville Sirius 31
Elvis Presley Blues
Steve: Elvis Presley Blues from the pen of Gillian Welch on Radio Margaritaville. Jimmy Buffett doin' it on Take The Weather With You. And we’re going through all the songs, so this is, this is as good a travel log as you could get into the (Jimmy: Yeah) music that Jimmy is putting out on this new album.
Hula Girl At Heart:
Steve: Here’s one that is an original and what a great effort
Jimmy: Well, ya gotta like, ya gotta love Hula Girl At Heart..(Steve: You gotta) I mean, come on.
Steve: If this doesn’t turn out to be a parrothead favorite...
Jimmy: Listen, every now and then I gotta write a Jimmy Buffett song and I can write 'em probably better than most people. (Steve: Yeah) A lot of people try to these days it seems, but I still have to hold my own up. I have to be able to write Jimmy Buffett songs better than most people I’m thinking, LOL, and this is my attempt at that, but it’s my love of Hawaii put into many facets of, of dancers that.. you know there’s nothing about a hula… a beautiful woman doing a hula that I don’t like… from the motion to the dress to the costume to the backdrop, nothing about it, ya know, and it’s kinda, ya know and I've got one of those hula lamps that wiggles… so that’s where I was when I got, that kinda started it.
Steve: If you’ve got one of those (Jimmy: Wigglin hula lamp, turn it on, listen to this song) turn it on right now… Hula Girl At Heart
Jimmy: It'll work, watch what happens...
Hula Girl At Heart
Steve: Here’s one that is an original and what a great effort
Jimmy: Well, ya gotta like, ya gotta love Hula Girl At Heart..(Steve: You gotta) I mean, come on.
Steve: If this doesn’t turn out to be a parrothead favorite...
Jimmy: Listen, every now and then I gotta write a Jimmy Buffett song and I can write 'em probably better than most people. (Steve: Yeah) A lot of people try to these days it seems, but I still have to hold my own up. I have to be able to write Jimmy Buffett songs better than most people I’m thinking, LOL, and this is my attempt at that, but it’s my love of Hawaii put into many facets of, of dancers that.. you know there’s nothing about a hula… a beautiful woman doing a hula that I don’t like… from the motion to the dress to the costume to the backdrop, nothing about it, ya know, and it’s kinda, ya know and I've got one of those hula lamps that wiggles… so that’s where I was when I got, that kinda started it.
Steve: If you’ve got one of those (Jimmy: Wigglin hula lamp, turn it on, listen to this song) turn it on right now… Hula Girl At Heart
Jimmy: It'll work, watch what happens...
Hula Girl At Heart
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Wheel Inside The Wheel:
Steve: With Jimmy Buffett, on Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31. On the occasion of Take The Weather With You. A new record. I love the way you refer to 'em as records.
Jimmy: Yeah
Steve: 'Cause they are recordings, and no matter what configuration they come out in...
Jimmy: Well, still being somebody who actually takes a band into a studio, sits down, and plays with the band, and that's how we always made records, so I just still think about that. But it's, it's odd when you do this, and we made this record in a lotta places. The basic tracks were done in Key West, but we did a lot of overdub, and then picked up things, we worked in New York a bit, we worked a lot in Muscle Shoals, and we worked in England. But you go into other studios, and they're, they're very un-used to how we work., LOL! Which is the way we always have worked, which is live. So ah...
Steve: I gotta figure that if they, if they're not familiar with they outta get familiar with it because... ???
Jimmy: Well they don't see it that much any more...
Steve: I hope it doesn't go away altogether...
Jimmy: No, it's, not just that, it's no, it's, alot of things are done with computers and technology. Hell, I do it, you know, when I make my own little stuff, I mean you can become a slave to these toys, and... But when we go and do the real deal, it's the real deal, everybody's in that room, well the rhythm section's in there, we don't, we didn't.??? The one thing we did on this album is, our little studio in Key West is little, so what we did is took the rhythm section in, and then for feature players like Robert and Ralph, who need a lot of room and need the sound of a room where you can really turn mics up, they came in later, but they didn't record with us. We did that once we, we actually on, I think, on License to Chill or Far Side of the World, we had everybody in the room, and it was like steerage on a freighter, I mean, Jesus Christ there was stuff everywhere, and it kind of got kind of annoying in a way so we decided to make that little change. But that's the only thing we actually did was, but the rhythm section sits down and plays, which is one of the great things, still to me and that's the fun of it when when you sit down with players like Sonny and Billy Payne, and Utley and Mac, and we're all sittin there, and Pete and Roger and Jim. We've been doing this awhile, and it's kinda like a seasoned team. We know each other well enough and when the material is good and everybody still gets excited about the songs, but they take their great ability in there, it's a lotta fun. And these tracks, we actually cut more than, I think we actually cut 21.
Steve: And the album is loaded with songs. So many good songs.
Jimmy: Yeah, and we cut, we got more, we had to, you know, the natural selection process, there are a few of them. That, that, you know, I don't know how to do it any other way, than I kinda make it look, I make set lists up like for shows. So when I make an album, I kinda look at the highs and lows, and where you take the songs in an energy situation, and :::COUGH::: you listen to what fits and what doesn't, and, and usually it works itself out, and we've rarely had any huge arguments between us about which songs would stay and which songs would go. I think there's four that didn't make the cut here, but don't worry, LOL, we didn't throw 'em in a trash can!
Steve: LOL! No, I wouldn't think so, why waste them.
Jimmy: LOL! You will hear them again.
Steve: This song, Wheel Inside The Wheel, has so much going on in it.
Jimmy: Well, you know, that uh, the thing of it is, you know, the collections of songs started... The first thing I started to write on this was, was Party At The End Of The World, and I was actually in Argentina, and fishing, and there was a little town called Ushuaia, which literally is at the end of the world, I think it is THE most southern point on the globe. And, you know, I'd heard stories of Tierra Del Feugo, and from my grandfather, and from reading, and from movies and the Roaring 40's, and the notorious weather. And I expected it to be kinda like the surface of Mars down there, where we were going. And we ran into a funky little town, at the end of the world, Ushuaia, with duty free shops, and a cruise ship taking off for Antarctica, and a great five star, little Italian restaurant, so... It was like Key West at the end of the World. There really was, so... It was a pleasant enough experience, and we wound up going to a party, that somebody invited us to so, there you have it.
So it started with that song, and then you know, the collection of, of tracks came in, and so as I was writing I was listening to other things and, and Mac played me the Mary Gauthier album, I remember that. And, it was intriguing because I know the name. Most people would call her Mary "gaw-tee-aye" or something, but coming from Pascagoula, there's a town called Gauthier, which I, my aunt lived in... So I kinda knew it, and I just, ah, anybody named Mary Gauthier and looked like she, LOL, Mary Gauthier looks like she's, LOL, the picture on the album, this a woman that's been around. And it intrigued me, and then, ah, you know, you play, we play her alot, I mean, I think she's one of the best country writers out there. Cause, it's kind of a no holds barred kind of approach to things, and I started listening to the album, and that song just jumped out to me, as somebody who has lived in New Orleans, and actually kinda cut my teeth... in the French Quarter, I mean not in New Orleans. If you lived in the French Quarter, pre-Katrina, you saw, that, what is explained in that song, and that's life in the French Quarter. And it's just kinda the ultimate tribute to the Mardi Gras philosophy.
And I think, that if when I look back at having been lucky enough to do this for as long as we have I, I truly believe, that one of the reasons we do it is, is ah, that little intangible asset, of I was raised in a Mardi Gras culture, and somehow it comes across when we go do concerts, and we go to towns people... You know, I was raised to believe, that, you know, as an example, I was a terrible student in high school, and college, and I didn't really care much about studying... I shouldn't say that, but it's true... But I'd made A's in "float decorations" LOL, and that's where my heart and soul were, so... And I think somehow, when I came out of having started on Bourbon St, and playing in New Orleans for all those years, and being such a part of that and growing up there, somehow, that, without knowing it, has been transferred out there to Middle America, when We come to town, so...
Wheel Inside The Wheel is to me the ultimate kinda Mardi Gras song, and then not only to have the song, but then you have Sonny Landreth come in on this guitar that he, he does on this track is, he's a pretty amazing fellow. And I, I sit there, when we, we're are on stage, and I just look at him play, he's like, he and Robert are two of those players that you, yeah, it's a guitar, but how does he make that damn thing do it? The same way Robert yeah, yeah, those are pans are made out of gas cans. How in the hell does he make those things sound like that? So, you know, Sonny on this album was the perfect kinda icing on the cake, I thought. So, I never expected anybody other than our radio station would ever play it, cause it's way too long and it's way too weird and... But when you get to be this age and you're making your 40th record, you can be long and weird. LOL! So there it is. LOL.
Steve: Wheel Inside The Wheel. Jimmy Buffett from the new one, Take The Weather With You on Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31
Wheel Inside The Wheel
Steve: With Jimmy Buffett, on Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31. On the occasion of Take The Weather With You. A new record. I love the way you refer to 'em as records.
Jimmy: Yeah
Steve: 'Cause they are recordings, and no matter what configuration they come out in...
Jimmy: Well, still being somebody who actually takes a band into a studio, sits down, and plays with the band, and that's how we always made records, so I just still think about that. But it's, it's odd when you do this, and we made this record in a lotta places. The basic tracks were done in Key West, but we did a lot of overdub, and then picked up things, we worked in New York a bit, we worked a lot in Muscle Shoals, and we worked in England. But you go into other studios, and they're, they're very un-used to how we work., LOL! Which is the way we always have worked, which is live. So ah...
Steve: I gotta figure that if they, if they're not familiar with they outta get familiar with it because... ???
Jimmy: Well they don't see it that much any more...
Steve: I hope it doesn't go away altogether...
Jimmy: No, it's, not just that, it's no, it's, alot of things are done with computers and technology. Hell, I do it, you know, when I make my own little stuff, I mean you can become a slave to these toys, and... But when we go and do the real deal, it's the real deal, everybody's in that room, well the rhythm section's in there, we don't, we didn't.??? The one thing we did on this album is, our little studio in Key West is little, so what we did is took the rhythm section in, and then for feature players like Robert and Ralph, who need a lot of room and need the sound of a room where you can really turn mics up, they came in later, but they didn't record with us. We did that once we, we actually on, I think, on License to Chill or Far Side of the World, we had everybody in the room, and it was like steerage on a freighter, I mean, Jesus Christ there was stuff everywhere, and it kind of got kind of annoying in a way so we decided to make that little change. But that's the only thing we actually did was, but the rhythm section sits down and plays, which is one of the great things, still to me and that's the fun of it when when you sit down with players like Sonny and Billy Payne, and Utley and Mac, and we're all sittin there, and Pete and Roger and Jim. We've been doing this awhile, and it's kinda like a seasoned team. We know each other well enough and when the material is good and everybody still gets excited about the songs, but they take their great ability in there, it's a lotta fun. And these tracks, we actually cut more than, I think we actually cut 21.
Steve: And the album is loaded with songs. So many good songs.
Jimmy: Yeah, and we cut, we got more, we had to, you know, the natural selection process, there are a few of them. That, that, you know, I don't know how to do it any other way, than I kinda make it look, I make set lists up like for shows. So when I make an album, I kinda look at the highs and lows, and where you take the songs in an energy situation, and :::COUGH::: you listen to what fits and what doesn't, and, and usually it works itself out, and we've rarely had any huge arguments between us about which songs would stay and which songs would go. I think there's four that didn't make the cut here, but don't worry, LOL, we didn't throw 'em in a trash can!
Steve: LOL! No, I wouldn't think so, why waste them.
Jimmy: LOL! You will hear them again.
Steve: This song, Wheel Inside The Wheel, has so much going on in it.
Jimmy: Well, you know, that uh, the thing of it is, you know, the collections of songs started... The first thing I started to write on this was, was Party At The End Of The World, and I was actually in Argentina, and fishing, and there was a little town called Ushuaia, which literally is at the end of the world, I think it is THE most southern point on the globe. And, you know, I'd heard stories of Tierra Del Feugo, and from my grandfather, and from reading, and from movies and the Roaring 40's, and the notorious weather. And I expected it to be kinda like the surface of Mars down there, where we were going. And we ran into a funky little town, at the end of the world, Ushuaia, with duty free shops, and a cruise ship taking off for Antarctica, and a great five star, little Italian restaurant, so... It was like Key West at the end of the World. There really was, so... It was a pleasant enough experience, and we wound up going to a party, that somebody invited us to so, there you have it.
So it started with that song, and then you know, the collection of, of tracks came in, and so as I was writing I was listening to other things and, and Mac played me the Mary Gauthier album, I remember that. And, it was intriguing because I know the name. Most people would call her Mary "gaw-tee-aye" or something, but coming from Pascagoula, there's a town called Gauthier, which I, my aunt lived in... So I kinda knew it, and I just, ah, anybody named Mary Gauthier and looked like she, LOL, Mary Gauthier looks like she's, LOL, the picture on the album, this a woman that's been around. And it intrigued me, and then, ah, you know, you play, we play her alot, I mean, I think she's one of the best country writers out there. Cause, it's kind of a no holds barred kind of approach to things, and I started listening to the album, and that song just jumped out to me, as somebody who has lived in New Orleans, and actually kinda cut my teeth... in the French Quarter, I mean not in New Orleans. If you lived in the French Quarter, pre-Katrina, you saw, that, what is explained in that song, and that's life in the French Quarter. And it's just kinda the ultimate tribute to the Mardi Gras philosophy.
And I think, that if when I look back at having been lucky enough to do this for as long as we have I, I truly believe, that one of the reasons we do it is, is ah, that little intangible asset, of I was raised in a Mardi Gras culture, and somehow it comes across when we go do concerts, and we go to towns people... You know, I was raised to believe, that, you know, as an example, I was a terrible student in high school, and college, and I didn't really care much about studying... I shouldn't say that, but it's true... But I'd made A's in "float decorations" LOL, and that's where my heart and soul were, so... And I think somehow, when I came out of having started on Bourbon St, and playing in New Orleans for all those years, and being such a part of that and growing up there, somehow, that, without knowing it, has been transferred out there to Middle America, when We come to town, so...
Wheel Inside The Wheel is to me the ultimate kinda Mardi Gras song, and then not only to have the song, but then you have Sonny Landreth come in on this guitar that he, he does on this track is, he's a pretty amazing fellow. And I, I sit there, when we, we're are on stage, and I just look at him play, he's like, he and Robert are two of those players that you, yeah, it's a guitar, but how does he make that damn thing do it? The same way Robert yeah, yeah, those are pans are made out of gas cans. How in the hell does he make those things sound like that? So, you know, Sonny on this album was the perfect kinda icing on the cake, I thought. So, I never expected anybody other than our radio station would ever play it, cause it's way too long and it's way too weird and... But when you get to be this age and you're making your 40th record, you can be long and weird. LOL! So there it is. LOL.
Steve: Wheel Inside The Wheel. Jimmy Buffett from the new one, Take The Weather With You on Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31
Wheel Inside The Wheel
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Silver Wings:
Steve: Jimmy Buffett's brand new one, Take The Weather With You is out, and we've got Jimmy on Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31. We're gonna jump right to Silver Wings.
Jimmy: Well, again, you know, I don't, I don't go far from, you know, it's interesting, that you know, and I'm glad that people have picked me up on country radio after two or three failed careers in country, but I have always loved those traditional songs, and Merle Haggard is, you know, still out there doing it, and those, you know, they're, what do you say about Merle Haggard, I mean, a living legend.
And, that, as I said before, one day I will do Early Morning Rain, but Silver Wings and Gordon Lightfoot's Early Morning Rain are my favorite two airplane country songs. And, so as a pilot I thought, as spending a lot of time in a plane and flying a plane around, we pilots like certain kinds of songs, and this is one of them. So this is for anybody who flies out there, or wants to fly, or is afraid of flying. Put it on, and, and sit back and you might not be as afraid of flying when you finish. LOL! :::COUGH:::
Steve: Merle Haggard's Silver Wings, with Jimmy Buffett, on Radio Margaritaville
Silver Wings
Steve: Silver Wings, a nice reggae tropical arrangement on that, probably not the way Merle heard it back aah, in 70's when he wrote it in his head. Yeah?
Jimmy: Yeah.
Steve: Just great. Wonderful stuff on the new album. Take The Weather With You. Jimmy Buffett here, with me, Steve Huntington on Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31.
Steve: Jimmy Buffett's brand new one, Take The Weather With You is out, and we've got Jimmy on Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31. We're gonna jump right to Silver Wings.
Jimmy: Well, again, you know, I don't, I don't go far from, you know, it's interesting, that you know, and I'm glad that people have picked me up on country radio after two or three failed careers in country, but I have always loved those traditional songs, and Merle Haggard is, you know, still out there doing it, and those, you know, they're, what do you say about Merle Haggard, I mean, a living legend.
And, that, as I said before, one day I will do Early Morning Rain, but Silver Wings and Gordon Lightfoot's Early Morning Rain are my favorite two airplane country songs. And, so as a pilot I thought, as spending a lot of time in a plane and flying a plane around, we pilots like certain kinds of songs, and this is one of them. So this is for anybody who flies out there, or wants to fly, or is afraid of flying. Put it on, and, and sit back and you might not be as afraid of flying when you finish. LOL! :::COUGH:::
Steve: Merle Haggard's Silver Wings, with Jimmy Buffett, on Radio Margaritaville
Silver Wings
Steve: Silver Wings, a nice reggae tropical arrangement on that, probably not the way Merle heard it back aah, in 70's when he wrote it in his head. Yeah?
Jimmy: Yeah.
Steve: Just great. Wonderful stuff on the new album. Take The Weather With You. Jimmy Buffett here, with me, Steve Huntington on Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31.
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Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On:
And, here comes Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On, your chance to, mention your dear friend Matt Betton.
Jimmy: Yeah, I mean Matt has always been another of those people, that has, I think Matt can write as good a Jimmy songs, or from knowing me, as I can. And he has definitely proved that in the past with If It All Falls Down, Apocalypso. And he sent me this.
And of course! After Katrina, I was deeply affected by that. I mean, I remember being on stage at Wrigley field while New Orleans was flooding. You know, and it's still terrible down there. And then, we as a country, should just be god-damB-d ashamed of the way things are, are being handled down there. And I feel passionate about that.
But, that said! You gotta move on! And you know we do our best, and I think saving the cultural heartland of America is something that, that I'm gonna be involved with. And on a daily basis, I'm still working, because the world moves on, and, in a way, it should, but, things need to be still tended to so... Yeah, I was not gonna, not say something in an album about what happened down there, and for the people that still live there, I think, I hope that this song just says yeah, we gotta deal with it and move on. No matter how bad it is so...
That's kinda the, a quiet gesture, and not an in your face kinda thing that I wanted to do on this song.
Steve: Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On, Jimmy Buffett on Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31
Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On
And, here comes Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On, your chance to, mention your dear friend Matt Betton.
Jimmy: Yeah, I mean Matt has always been another of those people, that has, I think Matt can write as good a Jimmy songs, or from knowing me, as I can. And he has definitely proved that in the past with If It All Falls Down, Apocalypso. And he sent me this.
And of course! After Katrina, I was deeply affected by that. I mean, I remember being on stage at Wrigley field while New Orleans was flooding. You know, and it's still terrible down there. And then, we as a country, should just be god-damB-d ashamed of the way things are, are being handled down there. And I feel passionate about that.
But, that said! You gotta move on! And you know we do our best, and I think saving the cultural heartland of America is something that, that I'm gonna be involved with. And on a daily basis, I'm still working, because the world moves on, and, in a way, it should, but, things need to be still tended to so... Yeah, I was not gonna, not say something in an album about what happened down there, and for the people that still live there, I think, I hope that this song just says yeah, we gotta deal with it and move on. No matter how bad it is so...
That's kinda the, a quiet gesture, and not an in your face kinda thing that I wanted to do on this song.
Steve: Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On, Jimmy Buffett on Radio Margaritaville, Sirius 31
Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On
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Duke's On Sunday:
Steve: Take The Weather With You Is the new release, and we've got it here for you on Radio Margaritaville, and Jimmy good to have you right here in the studio. Duke's On Sunday with Jimmy Buffett on Radio Margaritaville
Jimmy: What a way to close an album. If you've ever been to Duke's, and seen Henry Kapono playing at Duke's in Waikiki, I played there awhile back and listened to him do that song. I gotta have a little bit of Hawaii in me wherever I go. And again, this song, and then what we did with an arrangement and what Mac and Michael did to arrange this, ah, I don't think Henry's heard it so maybe if Henry's listening to R.., I don't know if they get, I don't know if the satellite's up over in Hawaii, I'll have to ask Scott about that... LOL
Steve: Can get it on the internet too, he's going to be very proud of it. This is beautiful. Duke's On Sunday.
Jimmy: Yeah, and it's, ah, I'll, we'll, we'll be back, we'll be there in Oct, I'm going, going back over there in November, so I'll, I'll take him a record over there, but it's a great way to finish out, and ah, and, and leave everybody smiling, and that's what this record was supposed to do. And, you can pack the weather up and then head on. LOL
Steve: On Radio Margaritaville
Duke's On Sunday
Jimmy: Well, Steve that's it. So I hope everybody likes this album.
Steve: Jimmy, thank you so much for taking the time, and please come back anytime. And please make another record in aah three, four, five years or whenever you feel like it.
Jimmy: Well I'm already working on a new one, and unfortunately I'm already at work again, but...
Steve: Not unfortunately. Thank you so much.
Jimmy: Thanks everybody for listening, and I hope you like this, and ah, and ah, LOL, That's it. Take The Weather With You. LOL. See ya'll!
Steve: Take The Weather With You Is the new release, and we've got it here for you on Radio Margaritaville, and Jimmy good to have you right here in the studio. Duke's On Sunday with Jimmy Buffett on Radio Margaritaville
Jimmy: What a way to close an album. If you've ever been to Duke's, and seen Henry Kapono playing at Duke's in Waikiki, I played there awhile back and listened to him do that song. I gotta have a little bit of Hawaii in me wherever I go. And again, this song, and then what we did with an arrangement and what Mac and Michael did to arrange this, ah, I don't think Henry's heard it so maybe if Henry's listening to R.., I don't know if they get, I don't know if the satellite's up over in Hawaii, I'll have to ask Scott about that... LOL
Steve: Can get it on the internet too, he's going to be very proud of it. This is beautiful. Duke's On Sunday.
Jimmy: Yeah, and it's, ah, I'll, we'll, we'll be back, we'll be there in Oct, I'm going, going back over there in November, so I'll, I'll take him a record over there, but it's a great way to finish out, and ah, and, and leave everybody smiling, and that's what this record was supposed to do. And, you can pack the weather up and then head on. LOL
Steve: On Radio Margaritaville
Duke's On Sunday
Jimmy: Well, Steve that's it. So I hope everybody likes this album.
Steve: Jimmy, thank you so much for taking the time, and please come back anytime. And please make another record in aah three, four, five years or whenever you feel like it.
Jimmy: Well I'm already working on a new one, and unfortunately I'm already at work again, but...
Steve: Not unfortunately. Thank you so much.
Jimmy: Thanks everybody for listening, and I hope you like this, and ah, and ah, LOL, That's it. Take The Weather With You. LOL. See ya'll!
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