Just a girl who loves Jimmy Buffett and wants to share his music, stories and lifestyle with the world!
Captain James Delaney Buffett Sr was born in Nova Scotia in 1887 and died in Pascagoula, Mississippi in 1970. He was certainly a huge influence on Jimmy, and I imagine the rest of the Buffett family. The Captain And The Kid isn’t the only song that Jimmy writes about him in, but I believe it is the first. It is a beautiful tribute!
While JB has proved multiple times that he can write a song about rather ordinary, everyday circumstances, he also had quite unusual, extraordinary things happen to him. And of course, he wrote songs about those things too…
As Jimmy got a little older and a little more settled in his career, people might claim that he and his music got a little weird, a little quirkier, but I present you 1974’s Life Is Just A Tire Swing from the album A1A, and say that Jimmy was always Jimmy, and stayed true to himself to the end.
Living in the face of such storms must take a lot of breathing in, breathing out, and moving on. It’s hard to win against mother nature but we certainly can keep our heads up and keep trying. And it’s not just physical storms we face, it’s the storms of life.
This song was on JB’s 1974 masterpiece album, A1A. The song was never released as a single but it is absolute poetry set to music. It’s soft yet gritty; about storms and hangovers and Bloody Mary’s for solace, and the beauty of inspiration and song writing.
This song has an interesting back story. The America’s Cup is a yacht racing tournament that was first held in 1851 hosted by the British Royal Yacht Squadron. It was a race won by the New York Yacht Club with the schooner America. The trophy was named after the schooner and has been called that ever since.
This is one of the most beautiful songs that I think Jimmy ever wrote. It’s about sad news, a sense of shock and loss, and how we process that.
Even if you are not very familiar with JB’s music, you will probably know this one. It came out on Jimmy’s 1978 album called Son of a Son of a Sailor, and the single made it to 32 on the Billboard chart. Really not bad for a song about a burger.
Another fun one! It’s catchy and peppy, and has a rhythm that just makes you want to sing along, even if you are lightheartedly singing about every location you might get blown to if the volcano blows!
A person doesn’t create what Jimmy did in his life without walking through some shadows and facing some monsters – and yet overcoming with an upbeat steel drum line for harmony and an incredibly charming sense of humor.