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...until the day they wandered out on this teak-wood deck with an ocean view and thatched umbrellas over the ashtray tables where you set the kind of Caribbean concoctions that come in gutted coconuts and topless pineapples; that was when, with the help of a little juice, Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville music came marimba-ing out of the loudspeakers. This is Florida, man! You may not be no pith helmet, mama honey, but I sho do lak the way you squeeze my tanning butter. Make that a double rum punch, bubbles. Me and my Foster Grants...
...COUPLE OF FRIENDS OF MINE used to take Jimmy Buffett intravenously, back when he was a cult figure, him and his imaginary Coral Reefer Band, back before his 1977 smash "Margaritaville" salted the airwaves 40 times a day on every pre-programmed all-the-kids-are-doing-it AM radio station in the country. They still made his concerts last year, but mainly for the sake of the old songs, like "They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More," and for a commode-huggin' good time. They thought "Margaritaville" was a lemon...
...Fleetwood Mac: Rumours (Warner Bros.). Soft, rocking, love-gone-wrong songs turn out right on a tasteful album that not only earned critical praise but became the bestselling album of the year. Jimmy Buffett: Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes (ABC). Countrified Caribbean and laid-back Southern rock blended together like a well-mixed Margarita. Waylon Jennings: Ol' Waylon (RCA). Country music's amiably gruff outlaw puts heart into honky-tonk-and Luckenbach, Texas, squarely on the map. The Phil Woods Six (RCA, 2 LPs). A master saxman and his friends hotfinger their way through familiar jazz standards...
...sunbathers and turistas" discovered Key West in droves, Buffett moved on in his ketch. Says he: "I've found other places and other sources just traveling around the Caribbean. There are a lot of incredible characters down there, as migratory and as gypsy-souled as I am." Buffett petitioned the Cuban government for permission to sail into Havana harbor. It was denied, but he plans to try again...
...that success will give him more private time. "I've had to do 200 concerts on the road each year to support a band and pay my bills," he notes. "It's got to the point where I don't have to do that any more." Buffett has set up his own publishing company and negotiated a new contract with ABC Records. None of it seems to be going to his head. "Every now and then when I'm in a grocery/ I'll take a little but not much," he sings in Peanut Butter...