It’s been nearly 31 years since Jimmy Buffett’s first live album was released, and now you can finally get the double live You Had To Be There at iTunes and AmazonMP3!
You Had To Be There was recorded live in Atlanta and Miami in the fall of 1978. If you’ve never heard it, it’s unlike any of the other live albums, featuring lots of energy and several songs you’ve probably never heard live before.
Preview the tracks below:
Get the live album now at iTunes for $11.99 or at AmazonMP3 for $9.49.
Jimmy Buffett is lending his voice to a Mark Twain tribute album that is being put together by the Mark Twain Museum in Hannibal, Missouri:
The country-flavored CD is still a work in progress. Some of the audio is still scratchy around the edges. Carl Jackson’s voice fills in for Jimmy Buffett’s throughout the current product as he waits for Buffett, a late contributor, to finish recording his spoken-word turn as Twain’s ragamuffin hero Huckleberry Finn.
Clint Eastwood plays the voice of Twain in the dialog with Buffett that will buffer between the musical numbers on the album. Other artists lending their voice and musical talents include Brad Paisley, EmmyLou Harris, Vince Gill, former Shenandoah frontman Marty Raybon, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, and more.
Jimmy Buffett will soon be appearing on The Today Show with Robert Greenidge and the Coral Reefers to perform “Winter Wonderland,” a track off of A Coral Reefer Christmas.
The news was included in a promotional e-mail sent out by Margaritaville early Thursday morning. Along with promoting the album, it says “STAY TUNED: Jimmy, Robert & Coral Reefers appearing soon on the Today Show to perform “Winter Wonderland!”
A Coral Reefer Christmas is a collection of holiday songs by Robert Greenidge, along with other members of the Coral Reefer Band. Jimmy and Nadirah provide guest vocals for “Winter Wonderland” on the album.
Preview the tracks and get the album at Amazon for just $8.97.
Raised on the sounds of the steel drum on the island of Trinidad, Robert Greenidge has become one of the pre-eminent pan players in the world. Also, a member of Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band, Robert joins his bandmates, Roger Guth (Drums), Jim Mayer (Bass), Michael Utley (Keyboards), Peter Mayer (Guitar), Ralph MacDonald (Percussion) and Mac McAnally (Guitar, Mandolin and Keyboard) to deliver the ultimate Island-flavored Christmas!
Jimmy Buffett and fellow Coral Reefer’s Nadirah Shakoor, Tina Gullickson, Peter Mayer, Jim Mayer and Mac McAnally also lend their vocal talents offering a unique version of the classic “Winter Wonderland!”
Jimmy Buffett appears on the upcoming Zac Brown Band album You Get What You Give and you can listen to the entire album now, including “Knee Deep” with Buffett:
ZBB bassist John Driskell Hopkins details how Buffett and the band first got together: “We met him on a camping trip last year and just sat around the fire with him for awhile. That was a quick friendship. He’s a real cat, really down to earth and doesn’t have a whole lot of ego and just a super nice guy…We did a lot of vocals down at his place in Key West and he happened to come through, so we got him to sit in and it sounded great. It sounds like a Buffett song when he sings it. Whatever he sings sounds like a Buffett song, y’know?”
Jimmy Buffett and the Zac Brown Band collaborate on the single “Knee Deep” on the group’s upcoming album You Get What You Give, and Billboard details how they hooked up:
“We met him on a camping trip last year,” bassist John Driskell Hopkins reports, “and just sat around the fire with him for awhile. That was a quick friendship. He’s a real cat, really down to earth and doesn’t have a whole lot of ego and just a super nice guy…We did a lot of vocals down at his place in Key West and he happened to come through, so we got him to sit in and it sounded great. It sounds like a Buffett song when he sings it. Whatever he sings sounds like a Buffett song, y’know?”
The Zac Brown Band is preparing to release their much-anticipated second album in September and Jimmy Buffett appears on the album, singing on a track entitled “Knee Deep.”
You Get What You Give, set for a September 21st release, also features Alan Jackson on “As She’s Walking Away,” which will be the first single released.
The Boston Globe has an interview with Buffett where they discuss the oil spill, his Buffet Hotel and Encores albums, and a new project that will be coming out:
Q. You have the public image of a free-for-all party guy and surfer, but weren’t you just down in Haiti helping out earthquake victims? And you’re going down to the Gulf Coast to lend a hand; what are your thoughts on the oil spill?
A. You have to figure out what to do instead of just bitching about it. One thing is that we have partnered with a little boat company and we’re building these small skimmer boats that can go into shallow water and actually help with the cleanup. Having grown up on the Gulf Coast, I don’t do this for headlines, but just because I want to give back. . . . We’re about to open our [Margaritaville Hotel] in Pensacola Beach, which is right at ground zero. We had a job fair there for 40 jobs — and 1,000 people showed up.
Q. You also just put out the double-CD “Encores,’’ taken from the acoustic encores you’ve done the last two years. It gave you a way to revisit some of your more obscure tunes and to show your roots by covering songs by Jesse Winchester, John Prine, and Bob Dylan.
A. On tour we have a 17-piece band that works people into a frenzy, but as big as this thing has gotten, I never want to forget being a folk singer, because that’s what I grew out of. I want to keep the roots alive of just me and a guitar since I spent so many years doing that. By ending the shows that way feels like a nightcap. It feels good.
Q. Any other recording projects?
A. Twenty years ago I ran away to Tahiti and wrote the song “One Particular Harbour.’’ I went back to Tahiti not long ago and did an acoustic version of the whole “One Particular Harbour’’ album in a bar called Bloody Mary’s where I first played — it fits about 80 people. So we’ll put that out.
Buffett is playing two shows next weekend just outside of Boston at Mansfield’s Comcast Center.
Jimmy Buffett’s double-CD live, acoustic encores album is now available for download at iTunes for $11.99.
“Encores” features 22 of Jimmy’s intimate final encore songs recorded during the 2008/2009 tour. This unique collection showcases Jimmy solo acoustic (12 songs), features a few special guests and is unlike anything he’s released before.
It’s been nearly 31 years since Jimmy Buffett’s first live album was released, and now you can finally get the double live You Had To Be There at iTunes and AmazonMP3!
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