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Jimmy Buffett: Key West
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Jimmy Buffett’s career has been as colorful as the Western Caribbean clothes that he so famously wears. He started singing in a Miami coffee house in 1972 and has not stop performing live since. Jimmy Buffett has one of the largest loyal fan bases in popular music which makes him a cultural icon it the eyes of his “parrot heads” (the term coined from the colorful hats his fans wear to concerts.) Buffett’s music has been described as tropical, wistful boozy tunes about sailors and dreamers with such hits as “Margaritaville,” “Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful,” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise.”
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Jimmy Buffett was born on Christmas Day 1946 in Pascagoula, Mississippi. His early years didn't really suggest a career in music. In fact Buffett didn't start playing guitar until he was in college. After graduating with a degree in journalism in 1969, Jimmy Buffett began his musical career in Nashville. He recorded his first album Down to Earth in 1970. Buffett spent the rest of the early '70's establishing his beach bum persona in Key West.
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Jimmy Buffett was born on Christmas Day 1946 in Pascagoula, Mississippi. He is best known for his “island escapism” lifestyle and music with hits such as “Margaritaville” and “Come Monday.” His fans are known as “Parrotheads” with the youngest memebers known as “Parakeets.” Buffett began his career as a country artist in the late 1960s and recorded his first album, Down to Earth, in 1970. It wasn’t long before he moved to Key West and began his beach lifestyle which he is now known for. Jimmy Buffett’s 1973 album, A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean, was followed by Living and Dying in 3/4 Time in 1974, with its song of marital separation “Come Monday.” Buffett released Havana Daydreamin’ in 1976 and Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes in 1977. The latter featured the breakthrough hit song “Margaritaville”, which solidified his pop stardom. The 1992 box set retrospective, Boats, Beaches, Bars, and Ballads, became one of the best-selling box sets ever and was followed in 1994 by Fruitcakes, which was one of his fastest selling album to date.
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Jimmy Buffett has been touring for decades creating legendary music and always leaving behind fans, new and old. Buffett's huge following has been due to his laid back style, talent, imagination and his down-to-earth personality that is always searching for a good time. Starting in Nashville, Buffett moved to Key West for inspiration and the rest is record-making history. Buffett has recently been inducted into Nashville's Songwriter Hall of Fame, one of his many accomplishments as a legendary performer.
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Jimmy Buffett first moved to Nashville in the late 60's. He first signed to Barnaby Records as released his first album "Down To Earth." Deciding that Nashville wasn't the place for he, he uprooted and moved to Key West, FL and adopted a more bohemian beach bum lifestyle and persona.
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Buffett began his musical career in Nashville, Tennessee during the late 1960s as a country artist and recorded his first album, the folk rock Down to Earth, in 1970. During this time Buffett could be frequently found busking for tourists in New Orleans. Country music singer Jerry Jeff Walker took him to Key West on a busking expedition. Buffett then moved to Key West and began establishing the easy-going beach bum persona for which he is known. Following this move, Buffett combined country, folk, and pop music with coastal and tropical lyrical themes for a sound sometimes called "gulf and western." Today, he is a regular visitor to the Caribbean island of Saint Barts and other islands where he gets inspiration for many of his songs and some of the characters in his books.
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