A Jimmy Buffett Fan

Jimmy Buffet, “The Margaretville” singer has selected a supermodel for his new video. the singer has teamed up with the model of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, Brooklyn Decker and made the promos for “Getting the Picture” in St. Barts in the Caribbean Islands. In this new video of Buffet, the stunning beauty, Brooklyn steals the Gentle Singers very attractive guitar. This guitar was signed by Buffet and was used as a prop in the Photographs taken by the Sports illustrated. According to Buffet, for the last six months his guitar was having a goodtime, as it was caressed by some of the most beautiful women in the world.

Buffet is all thrilled with the attention he and his Guitar is getting and he even used his private plane to carry Brooklyn to St Barts for the shoot of his video. The guitar has already travelled around the world and it was handled by Fernanda Motta, Marisa Miller, and Bar Rafaeli for the bikini and nude shots for the illustrated swim suit issue. The guitar which was signed by Jimmy will be auctioned on eBay in order to raise funds for charity work which includes a “Habitat for Humanity Musicians” village and “New Orleans Musicians” Clinic.

Jimmy Buffet, the noted singer, author and business man has announced a new tour date to the joy of his fans. People in Philadelphia are going to get a chance to watch the great singer perform with the famous band, coral reefs. The show will be conducted in the home of Philadelphia Phillies, Citizens Bank Park .The Buffet concert is scheduled for June 14th of 2008.The ticket sales for the same is expected to start from Monday, 10th March. Some of the standard songs which are performed in all of the major shows of Buffet include Margaritaville, Son of a Son of a Sailor, Volcano, Cheese Burger in Paradise, fins etc.

Jimmy Buffet and Coral Reefers are a real crowd puller and they make the show more interesting by sometimes throwing references and skits about the venue in which they are performing. Jimmy Buffet has also announced the tour dates for his upcoming performances in Frisco, TX in April, in New Orleans in May, East Troy in July, and in Bridge view etc. The tour is named as” The Year of Still Here Tour” and all the Jimmy fans and Parrot Heads are looking forward to attend this tour, when it reaches their place.

Jimmy Buffet, the noted singer, author and business man has announced a new tour date to the joy of his fans. People in Philadelphia are going to get a chance to watch the great singer perform with the famous band, coral reefs. The show will be conducted in the home of Philadelphia Phillies, Citizens Bank Park .The Buffet concert is scheduled for June 14th of 2008.The ticket sales for the same is expected to start from Monday, 10th March. Some of the standard songs which are performed in all of the major shows of Buffet include Margaritaville, Son of a Son of a Sailor, Volcano, Cheese Burger in Paradise, fins etc.

Jimmy Buffet and Coral Reefers are a real crowd puller and they make the show more interesting by sometimes throwing references and skits about the venue in which they are performing. Jimmy Buffet has also announced the tour dates for his upcoming performances in Frisco, TX in April, in New Orleans in May, East Troy in July, and in Bridge view etc. The tour is named as” The Year of Still Here Tour” and all the Jimmy fans and Parrot Heads are looking forward to attend this tour, when it reaches their place.

Pulaski County from the Last Mango racing stable, which is co- owned by Jimmy Buffet, the music super star won the eighth race that took place in the Fair Grounds in New Orleans. Pulaski County is three years old and the other owners include the coach of New Orleans Saint, Sean Payton, General Manager of the team, Mickey Loomis, Drew Brees the Quarter back and several others. The jockey of the winning horse was Robby Albarado and this was the first ever victory of the Last Mango racing stable. Tom Amoss was the trainer of Pulaski for the race.

Jimmy Buffet and his partners got in to the sport of racing only in the last fall and they entered racing by having a claim of $50,000 for Pulaski County at Keene land. Pulaski County was able to take the command in the mid- stretch of the race and was able to maintain the lead. In wagering, Pulaski paid $7.80, $4 and $3.20 as the second option and the six furlong length was finished in 1: 12.54. The principal owner of last mango and the vice president of communications for NFL franchise, Greg Bensel was very happy about the win. Jimmy Buffet watched the performance of Pulaski County from his boat Last Mango III at St. Bart.

The much looked for celebration event in the American music calendar, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage festival, is planning to have a full seven day programming schedule since 2005. This year, the organizers have been able to bring in a host of musical performers and the fans will be able to enjoy a mix of gospel, rock, jazz, country, blues and many more in the 39th edition of the historical event. Some of the artistes to perform at the NOLA festival are Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, Sheryl Crow, Tim McGraw, Santana, Keyshia Cole and of course Jimmy Buffett and his Coral Reef band.

Jimmy Buffett and his musical band will be performing in the NOLA Festival, one of the world’s greatest cultural celebration centers, on May 3rd and the Buffett fans in the New Orleans region are waiting to catch their star performer perform. Quint Davis, the producer and director of the NOLA festival, says that this year’s rejuvenated festival will see all the top music artists perform live for the first time and the effort of bringing all these stars to New Orleans has gone well with the public as well. The tickets for this festival are currently on sale and judging by the sale of tickets, this fest will surely be a huge roaring success.

Jimmy Buffet started his music career in the year 1960 at Nashville in Tennessee as a country artist. Buffet’s first musical album Folk Rock Down to Earth was recorded in 1970. Later he moved to Key West and was highly influenced by the coastal culture. He incorporated the coastal and tropical themes to country, pop as well as folk music styles to create his own variety. In 1973 he released an album named “A white Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean” followed by “Havana Daydreamin” in 1976. The famous song “Magaritaville” was featured in the album “Changes in Latitudes and Changes in Attitudes” released in 1977. Jimmy shifted from album making to tour in 1980’s and within next twenty years released many albums. The two albums which require special mention are “Christmas Island” and “Parakeets”. In 2003 his duet with Alan Jackson “It’s Five ‘O’Clock Somewhere” was a huge hit. Buffet was pushed to the top position of the U.S Pop albums with “Licensed to Chill” released in 2004. Buffet was the first musician to do a concert at the famous “Wrigley Field” in Chicago. His 2006 release “Take the weather With You” has reference about the Hurricane Katrina. Jimmy Buffet has 8 Gold Albums and nine platinum to his credit so far.

Jimmy Buffett, a musician, hotelier and above all a charitable person, had given license to Outback Steakhouse to run a chain of restaurants under the name “Cheeseburger in Paradise” in August 2002. The concept of these restaurants was to provide its customers with maximum comfort and relaxation away from the hassles of their day to day activities. The Cheeseburger in Paradise had island like surroundings with colorful cocktails and live music and to add to it, Western style décor in a bid to woo customers into a party like atmosphere.

Jimmy Buffet sold his holdings in these restaurants to Outback Steakhouse Company in the year 2005 and now gets 4.5% as royalty fees from the total earnings from the restaurant business. After the closure of the first Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant in Asheville, North Carolina, there has been an announcement for the closure of Michigan Cheeseburger in Paradise as well. The reason cited for this closure is that the parent company is going for a new strategic plan and these restaurants no longer suit the new plan of the OSI restaurant partners. The company has said that the closures are a business decision that the company had to take at a particular moment and that they will serve their loyal customers at some point in the future.

There is no doubt that Jimmy Buffett still has lot of fans worldwide as this was proved by the large turnout of people who came to witness the star performer on the Jan 18^th benefit concert in Hong Kong that was organized to raise funds to support the needy children in Hong Kong. The response for this concert was so huge that the organizers had to apologize to many ardent fans, who could not get tickets to watch Jimmy Buffett perform live in their hometown. The event organizers said that their miscalculation of the Jim Buffett’s fan following and never expected people from China, Thailand and the Philippines to come and watch the show. The Hong Kong concert by Jimmy Buffett and his fans raised an astronomical sum of $420,000 and Jimmy was so very pleased to perform before such ardent fans that he said that he has plans to come back to Hong Kong next year to perform. The event organizers also praised the generosity of Jimmy Buffett for the charity concert as he performed the entire concert for free along with his band. The money collected from the sale of beer and tequila that was supplied by Jimmy was also donated to the charity.

Jimmy Buffet the man with the Midas touch was born in Pascagoula in the Gulf Coast in 1946. Jimmy Buffet is well known as a singer as well as song writer. He has varied interests and has widened his career by venturing into literature, nightclubs and into clothing business. Even in music he has excelled in different branches like the classical, folk, rock music etc. In late 60’s Buffet shifted to Nashville inorder to try his luck in country music and released an album named “Down to Earth” in 1970. Later Buffet moved to Key West and his folk rock style was absorbed from there.

Jimmy’s album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes and the song “Margaritaville” took him to new heights in the entertainment world. He faced a brief bad phase in his career at the early 80s and Buffet turned into clothing business by launching Margaritaville line of clothes as well as nightclubs. Buffet also turned into writing fictions and is considered as one the best writers. Millions of copies of his best song compilations were sold around the world. Apart from all these he also owns a satellite radio called Radio Margaritaville.

Jimmy Buffett is all set to conquer the readers of all ages with his new book titled “Swine Not” that is expected to be released on 13th of May 2008. This book talks about the adventures encountered by Rumpy, the pig in Manhattan city and Jimmy Buffett thought of writing this story based on the experiences his friend and his pet pig had when they moved to Manhattan. Rumpy is in New York City in search of her lost twin brother with her human friend and young owner Barley and the villain in the story is the head chef of the hotel in which they are staying.

As the story is based on the real events that took place in the life of Helen Bransford, the illustrator as well as the co-author of the “Swine Not” it can claim much originality. The playful narration as well as simplicity of the story will be definitely appealing to the readers. It is exciting to read how, Rumpy the pig overcomes the threats and obstacles faced by her while she stayed in the city. Although the book was originally a children’s book, Jimmy Buffet with his imagination and creativeness has turned it equally amusing for adults.