Remember that night you got locked out of your beach house and had to sleep under the boardwalk? Or that time you underestimated the amount of space you had to do a flip off the diving board and ended up doing an epic belly-flop that landed you in the ER? Remember when your 4th of July fireworks caught your neighbors house on fire? Maybe you don’t remember anything after a tequila-fueled night of debauchery… Well, you’re in luck! Inspired by the crazy summer mis-adventure from their latest music video for “Knee Deep,” Zac Brown Band wants to hear your funniest summer mishap story. Tell us below for your chance to win!
Grand Prize is the message in a bottle used in the Knee Deep vid signed by both Zac Brown and Jimmy Buffett! Winner will also receive a Knee Deep T-Shirt and Kingsford Grill Pack.
2 Runner Ups will receive a Kingsford Grill Pack including: “You Get What You Give” CD, Southern Ground Cookbook, ZBB Guitar Pick a Kingsford Cookbook, Memphis Grill set, Kingsford Koozie and a coupon for a free bag of Charcoal!
Jimmy Buffett was recently on the Bob Edwards Show, where he gave a lengthy interview:
Jimmy Buffett is like a pied piper, but with a guitar, leading his Coral Reefer Band and his legion of fans known as Parrot Heads. Bob visits with Buffett in the state of mind called Margaritaville to talk about the song, his many commercial enterprises, the satellite radio channel and about Buffett’s connection to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
Jimmy Buffett took the Welcome to Fin Land Tour to Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio on Tuesday night, playing there for the first time since 2004.
The Chicago Sun Times has an interesting article/interview with Jimmy Buffett where he reminisces about the time he spent in Chicago with Steve Goodman and others:
“I had just gotten into Chicago and was told we were going to have dinner at Steve’s place,” Buffett said in a Tuesday phone conversation. “And we were going to shoot this album cover.” Buffett had met Goodman at the Earl of Old Town. In the early 1970s, Buffett was an opening act at Richard Harding’s Quiet Knight, adjacent to the L tracks on West Belmont Avenue.
Buffett had his first major market success in Chicago. He opened for Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Neil Sedaka and others at the Quiet Knight. “I was loyal to Richard,” Buffett said. “He played me there many times, and I stayed when I started getting a following. That’s how it was then.”
Buffett was the outsider who was born in Pascagoula, Miss.
“It is a Chicago style not necessarily identified with the city,” Buffett explained. “There were just so many good people doing solo acoustic guitar shows. The Holstein brothers, Bonnie Koloc, Mike Smith. And those singer-songwriters also had to be comedians and emcees. I had to do that in my early New Orleans days. Stephen Stills and [Eric] Clapton were the guitar players I idolized. My natural strength seemed to lie in the ability to bulls— on stage. I had that talk with myself. I thought, ‘It’ll take a lot of hard work and practice, so if I’m successful, I can hire a good guitar player.’ After New Orleans, when I got to Chicago I worked places that were minor league ballparks, the Steak & Ale circuit. So meeting all those people in Chicago was a renaissance for me.
“They were great storytellers, bulls— artists on stage and performers. I gravitated toward that. I found my place.”
The Miami Herald has an article on Savannah Buffett, Jimmy’s eldest daughter, who just launched a clothing line called A1A:
The 32-year-old has launched an apparel brand called A1A, inspired by her legendary dad’s 1974 album. She also runs a namesake website, which offers recommendations on living the good life. She talked to us about her Parrothead-y world:
What inspired you to start a fashion line?
I started A1A as sort of an offering for people around my age and people from around Florida. Part of it is a love letter to the state. and a part of it takes its inspiration from my dad’s work — the old-school days of him being down in Key West and Miami and that vintage, throwback feel of what sort of made him who he was.
You started an “anti-socialite’s blog’’ www.savannahbuffett.com. What is that about?
I wanted to make it my Internet island of cool stuff from everything to travel recommendations to music recommendations and everything in between. I consider myself a ‘lifestylist’ so it’s about life, turning people onto to music and to travel. People can look at certain cities I visited to find some spots they wouldn’t necessarily find otherwise. Whenever I travel I know I like to know a local or find a local to give me the inside info. I always have that internal fear of being a tourist. [Laughs]. Not that there’s anything wrong with tourists!
Only four songs separate Jimmy Buffett from his second number one song. “Knee Deep,” the duet with the Zac Brown Band, moved up to #5 from #8 this week.
It’s the 13th week on the charts for the single.
Preview and download the single below from AmazonMP3, or get it at iTunes:
The Zac Brown Band is giving away the message in a bottle from the “Knee Deep” music video:
Jimmy Buffett’s Gulf Coast concert that was broadcast live on CMT is up for a VH1 Do Something Award.
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“Knee Deep,” the duet with Jimmy Buffett and the Zac Brown Band, moved up one spot this week to #4 on the Billboard Top Country Songs Chart.
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