Just a girl who loves Jimmy Buffett and wants to share his music, stories and lifestyle with the world!
My Google search on Pascagoula today told me that I am 1 day and 10 hours away from Pascagoula, Mississippi … by flight! Which is not at all correct if a person shops better than Google is trying to shop for me. I might even be able to drive it in 34 hours if I only stopped to get gas and pee. I swear, Montana is not at the end of the world!
Today is a big day in Jimmy Buffett’s world, even though he might not be with us on the physical plane of this big round ball we call Earth, he is certainly with us in spirit. Today is the release day of Equal Strain On All Parts. We have been able to hear several of the songs from the record already, and we already know that there is one song that already has captured the hearts of his fans, which is Bubbles Up. It already ties to us in an emotional way that maybe equals the emotional attachment we have to He Went To Paris, which for me, has always been deeply sentimental.
Mañana turns out to be a very special day for Parrotheads everywhere, because tomorrow, November 3rd, is the day that Jimmy’s album Equal Strain On All Parts is officially released! I have been waiting for it since summer when I heard the first stirrings on RadioMargaritaville, when I first heard My Gummie Just Kicked In. Then, September 1st kicked me in the gut, and I knew that things would never be the same. But right now, we have a gift coming mañana and I am so grateful for that.
In the sense of this song, I define gypsy as a free-spirited person or one who lives a nomadic existence, or raids pantries full of food and booze. In concert, Jimmy has introduced this song as “the scariest song you’ll hear tonight” with his trademark sense of humor and gentle drawl. I never got the chance to housesit for Jimmy Buffett, so I can’t promise if I might not have acted a bit like a gypsy myself. Cheers to whomever inspired the writing of this vastly entertaining song.
Tomorrow marks two months on this earth without Jimmy with us. Today is Halloween, and tomorrow marks the Catholic holidays of All Saint’s day, and then after that, All Souls Day. I wasn’t raised catholic, but Jimmy was, so I don’t know how he felt about these holidays, but in a worldwide perspective, with the season of Dia De Los Muertos with us, this seems like a perfect time to honor not just Jimmy, but his father and father’s fathers, and all the ancestors in his line, both paternal and maternal. If it wasn’t for them, there would not have been him!
It’s a crowd favorite. It’s a bar room favorite. It’s a favorite of mine while singing in the shower or the car. It’s both funny and more than a bit true. And that combination was a great part of Jimmy’s songwriting charm.
I have always liked this song, from the first time I popped this CD into the player, I connected with it. Not sure if it’s the fun, fast paced lyrics, or the rhythm, or just the concept, but I think it’s a wonderful song. Certainly, it tells us a little about Jimmy, but perhaps it also tells us a little about ourselves.
Of the many aspects of Jimmy’s song writing, one of the things I appreciate most is his sense of humor. It’s there in all his songs, but some of them seem more overt in that sense than others. This is one of those…
I dare you not to like this song. I. Dare. You. Fins up! Fins to the left… Fins to the right…
This is one of those songs that speaks for itself. It has a charm that completely carries you away with the lyrics, and you are left feeling like you had a wild weekend that will take at least a week to recover from, and you enjoyed every darn minute of it!