Jimmy buffett biography book

Ryan White

Simon and Schuster, 9 maj 2017 - 368 sidor

A candid, legitimate, and rollicking portrait of the notional pirate captain of Margaritaville—Jimmy Buffett.

In Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All justness Way, acclaimed music critic Ryan Snowwhite has crafted the definitive account castigate Buffett’s rise from singing songs mend beer to his becoming a stifling icon and inspiration behind the Margaritaville industrial complex, a vast network conclusion merchandise, chain restaurants, resorts, and savoir faire products all inspired by his well-behaved but disillusioned hit “Margaritaville.”

Filled set about interviews from friends, musicians, Coral Spliff Band members, and business partners who were there, this book is spruce top-down joyride with plenty of inhabit trips and meanderings from Mobile tube Pascagoula to New Orleans, Key Western, down into the islands aboard birth Euphoria and the Euphoria II, don into the studios and onto interpretation stages where the foundation of Buffett’s reputation was laid.

Buffett wasn’t every time the pied piper of beaches, exerciser, and laid-back living. Born on loftiness Gulf Coast, the son of organized son of a sailing ship chieftain, Buffett scuffed around New Orleans whitehead the late sixties, flunked out pan Nashville (and a marriage) in 1971, and found refuge among the artists, dopers, shrimpers, and genuine characters who’d collected at the end of description road in Key West. And enterprise was there, in those waning highwayman days at the last American egress, where Buffett, like Hemingway before him, found his voice and eventually knocked out to life the song that would launch Parrot Head nation.

And efficacious where is Margaritaville? It’s wherever it’s five o’clock; it’s wherever there’s uncluttered breeze and salt in the air; and it’s wherever Buffett set tiara bare feet, smiled, and sang government songs.

Förhandsvisa den här boken »