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Jimmy Buffett / More Monday Music / Music

#116 – Take Another Road

What does it mean to take another road? How many roads are there that can be taken? Limitless, probably. No end to the roads we can take, or the alterations we can make in our lives. It is up to us what road or how we choose, although at times life seems to divert or detour us in a way that we did not see or cannot possibly understand. I guess life makes a “course correction” for us in these cases, and we are left to have faith that it’s part of a great plan on our life’s map. But for the most part, it’s our choice to step forward, choosing the roads before us, such as staying on the same path or offering us a way to Take Another Road.

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#115 – Everybody’s Talkin’

This song has been waving at me for a little while, wanting to have it’s turn to in the sunlight, but the timing never seemed quite right. And yet, today seems like the perfect day to share it. There is a northeast wind blowing and rain is falling from the sky, and I am thinking about places where the sun keeps shining and warm ocean breezes, and the gentle vibe of this soft rock/folk song seems like it was designed for a day like today. Everybody’s Talkin’ is a song that paints a picture of a certain mood, and I would guess that almost everyone has heard at least one version of this song, although it may not have been Jimmy’s version.

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#114 – Kick It In Second Wind

This month, we are traveling back to the seventies, to “classic” Buffett, to the Key West days and the music that was part of Jimmy’s transition from folk/country to creating his own sound, which would later be termed Gulf and Western. The song we are highlighting is one of those songs that not only connect to the life that Jimmy was living at the time, as a new artist making a living touring honky tonks and beach bars and a few hotel lounges, along with the party-hard-until-you-drop mentality that came with it. Kick It In Second Wind is funny, truthful and a little bit rowdy, and captures Jimmy’s life at that time in lyrical detail.

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#113 – When Salome Plays The Drum

Some people love this song, some people do not, some people may not even know it, and therefore this post might be considered a deep dive into Jimmy’s music, but When Salome Plays The Drum has always felt captivating and interesting and tempting. It makes you really want to know more. What inspired it, what is true, or what isn’t; who was Salome, or was there ever a Salome?

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#112 – Savannah Fare You Well

Sometimes a song catches your attention because of the instrumentation, sometimes it the lyrics. Savannah Fare You Well is one of those songs that fits into both of those categories. It has an almost haunting quality, with a little darkness and a little shimmering imagery, and once you hear it, it will stick with you. Just the other day, the lyrics lamenting “fragile magic” and a “some devil’s mixing fire and ice together,” drifted out from my car radio, and this month’s song presented itself.

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#111 – Weather With You

It seems like the recent weather news had been riddled with winter storm warnings, zig zagging across the map, looking more like toddler scribbles on a piece of paper than any organized weather system, although, predicting the weather probably isn’t easy. And winter storm warnings, perhaps more than any other, can bring a serious case of anxiety and dread. Which doesn’t help lighten anyone’s mood… and this song popped right into my head, as well as right onto my car radio courtesy of RadioMargaritaville.

Weather With You…Because the idea of your mood shifting the weather around you might sound like a science fiction plot, but in many ways, our moods are like weather, and they can shape the overall feeling of our environment, or the room that we happen to walk into.

Come Music Monday / Jimmy Buffett / Music

#110 – Ti Punch Cafe

Jimmy Buffett, as a writer, whether of songs or stories, was never short on ideas, nor afraid to let his imagination flow. Some of Jimmy’s songs were based on a simple inspiration, maybe a sunset or a perfect day on the water or an iconic drink from the islands, while some of his songs had multiple inspirations, which he always managed to combine into a fantastic song, as if they were always meant to be merged and set to music. Even odd combinations, such as far away star systems and cosmic bakers, or mythologic singers and pirates, or children’s stories about princes from outer space, Ti Punch Café is one of those songs, a little bit of everything that seems to fit together into a beautiful world we would all like to visit for an hour or two, maybe even longer.

Come Music Monday / Jimmy Buffett / Music

#109 – Waiting For The Next Explosion

The world has felt edgy and uncomfortable for a while. I do not for a moment believe I am the only person feeling it, although my life has had some serious challenges recently. Certainly, in the last several months, and maybe even further back to the pandemic, although we might not have been aware of exactly what we were feeling leading up to that time… but something was coming, something was going to change things, and it was going to feel unsettling.

“Waiting for the next explosion” feels like that’s what our world has been feeling for the last several months, so the RadioMargaritaville Wheel of Fortune spun this song out to me last night, I nodded my head and said “yes, indeed” to the Universe. Perfect song at the perfect time, and I gave some words of thanks into the heavens to Jimmy Buffett for always having the right song for the right moment, as well as a nod to his foresight in writing and recording this song, which is twenty-five years old, but still feels just right to describe the way the world feels right now.

Come Music Monday / Jimmy Buffett / Music

#108 – It’s My Job

“Keep the party going” is a quote that’s been rolling through my mind the last several days, and it’s been in relation to my blog posts about Jimmy Buffett’s music. At the beginning of the year, I planned on a song post every Monday, keeping the song sharing going, that I started last year, as a tribute after Jimmy’s passing…
“It’s my job to be better than the best, and that makes the day for me…”
It’s My Job was released on JB’s 1981 album Coconut Telegraph, and it happens to be one of two songs on that album that Jimmy did not have any part of writing. It was written by Lyman Corbitt McAnally Jr. Yes, that’s Mac’s full name, the incomparable Mac McAnally, long-time friend, writing partner, bandmate, and stage side kick of Jimmy Buffett…