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Jimmy Buffet and His Great Songs

Posted on 11.12.07 5:33AM under Album, Artist, Music, Songs, Uncategorized

Before 2003, Buffet used to perform at each and every of his shows 8 standard songs, which were then called the Big 8. Thanks to the success of Jimmy’s duet with Alan Jackson when they performed the song “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere“, the list of songs played at every show have been extended, and now it counts 9 songs instead of 8 - as you have guessed adding the very song “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere”. The original “Big 8″, though unspecified, include the following:

“Margaritaville”
“Come Monday”
“Fins”
“Volcano”
“A Pirate Looks at Forty”
“Cheeseburger in Paradise”
“Why Don’t We Get Drunk”
“Changes in Latitudes”

Of course, when we are talking about the Big 8, we use this “term” figuratively, cause it was not always that these songs have been played at every show. For example, “A Pirate Looks at Forty” was not played during the George, Washington ‘92 show, and “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” was omitted from opening of the Irvine show in 2006. However, it is absolutely clear that these songs, no matter 8 or 9, are the greatest and most loved in the creative work of Jimmy Buffet.