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Jimmy Buffett / Music / Topsail Tuesday

#127 – Defying Gravity

The last week has been full of challenges, such as a freak winter weather storm, resulting in two power outages within ten hours, the second of which lasted three days. And when things like that happen, all you can do is the best you can within the circumstances you have to work with and move forward despite the challenges. And afterward, you can look back and appreciate what was accomplished and what was overcome. Defying gravity is a term that means overcoming, resisting, or rising above limitations or challenges, even defying constraints and breaking boundaries, and soaring up and above, against all odds, and is tied to empowerment and personal freedom. Considering the lead up circumstances to this post, Defying Gravity seems like the perfect Jimmy Buffett song to focus on.

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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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#91 – Wonder Why We Ever Go Home

Wonder Why We Ever Go Home is a song that Jimmy Buffett wrote in the seventies, having had a couple twists and turns and reinventions along the way, before making its final form appearance on his noteworthy 1977 album, commonly referred to as “Changes” to his fans. It is soft and reflective, soulful and sad, and seems to capture the deeper parts of Jimmy’s songwriting talents.

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Day #45 – Havana Daydreamin’

Havana is a city that shows up more than once in Jimmy’s songs. It seems like it’s either a place people are trying to leave or a place that people are trying to get to. Havana is the capital and largest city by population in Cuba, and the second largest populated city in the Caribbean. Known as La Habana in Spanish, it’s a city that’s history and architecture stir up dreams of the past and the tropics.