Entries from January 2006

MP3 Downloads Soon from Mailboat

January 30th, 2006 · No Comments

From Mailboat: MP3s - Coming Soon! Stay tuned in the next few weeks for an exciting addition to the Mailboat Records offerings - the ability to purchase mp3s of your favorite live Jimmy Buffett concerts!”

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Tags: Miscellaneous

News on “Hoot”

January 27th, 2006 · No Comments

An article in this week’s Boca Beacon provides some details on the production of the movie “Hoot,” which Jimmy Buffett co-produced, acted in, and is providing the score for. New Line Cinema is pumping more money into the project, after a successful preliminary screening of the movie for an audience. Director Will Shriner and a crew [...]

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Tags: Business Empire

Watch the “Hoot” Trailer

January 24th, 2006 · No Comments

Seen the trailer yet for the upcoming movie “Hoot”? Check it out here. “Hoot” is the story of a young boy who moves to Florida and encounters a series of mysteries while trying to save a group of endangered owls. Jimmy Buffett co-produces, plays a teacher, and provides all-new music for the film. Catch it in [...]

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Tags: Business Empire · Videos

Pittsburgh Tour Date Listed

January 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

Several ticket broker sites have listed a Pittsburgh tour date for Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band. According to those sites, Jimmy will play the Post Gazette Pavilion at Star Lake in Burgettstown, PA on Thursday, June 8th. Check back often for more Tour Date announcements!

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Tags: Tour Dates

10 Year Anniversary of “Jamaica Mistaica”

January 16th, 2006 · No Comments

From KKTV: This week in 1996, Jamaican authorities opened fire on Jimmy Buffett’s seaplane, the Hemisphere Dancer, mistaking it for a drug trafficker’s plane. U-2 singer Bono was with Buffett, but neither one was hurt. Buffett wrote a song about the incident, entitled “Jamaica Mistaica,” that can be found on the album Banana Wind.

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Tags: Aviation

Buffett Working on New Album

January 14th, 2006 · No Comments

Jimmy Buffett and company have been working on a new album this month. Will Kimbrough writes: I have been in St Barths since the 3rd, writing with Peter Mayer, Roger Guth and Jimmy Buffett. I think we have some good stuff going. I think we helped Jimmy finish a couple of great songs for his next [...]

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Tags: Albums

“Pardi Gras” in New Orleans

January 13th, 2006 · No Comments

The Times-Picayune has an article on “Pardi Gras” in New Orleans: Every January since 1998, a coalition of Jimmy Buffett’s “Parrothead” fans have gathered in the French Quarter for a long “Pardi Gras” weekend. They eat, drink and dance in celebration of the cheeseburger and margarita Buffett lifestyle. So the ninth annual “Pardi Gras” kicked off [...]

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Tags: Parrotheads

Review of Dunwoody, GA Cheeseburger in Paradise

January 11th, 2006 · No Comments

Steve Rose has written a review of the new Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant in Dunwoody, Georgia for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Read the review here.

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Tags: Business Empire