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...early days as a singer-composer, Jimmy Buffett did some of his best work in grocery stores. "I was a good shoplifter," he recalls, emphasizing good in his soft Alabama accent. Buffett barely earned beer-and-cracker money in the 1960s, playing hotels and red-walled cocktail lounges...
Things are better now. Buffett, 30, belongs to a wave of laid-back Dixie performers, including Oklahoma-born James Talley and Tennessean Sid Selvidge, who are just now getting wide recognition. Buffett's seventh album, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, is 20th among country LPs, and last month he packed off on tour as the opening act with the Eagles...
...pairing is a sunny one. The Eagles' sounds are quintessential Southern California, while Buffett's music is countrified Caribbean. He lives aboard a 33-ft. ketch called Euphoria, and island-hops through the Antilles. His music, like his lifestyle, is a gentle blend of folksy Southern rock and infatuation with the Caribbean. Buffett writes, often puckishly, of Gulf Stream idyls, Latin crimes of passion, and tequila-filled days. His themes, presented in simple rhythms and sung in an engaging baritone, have the languorous appeal of a fishnet hammock. As he sings in Wastin' Away Again in Margaritaville...
...Buffett's seagoing impulses were bred in Mobile, where his father was a naval architect at a local shipyard. His grandfather, to whom Buffett dedicated an album, was a retired ship captain who first sailed aboard a whaler at the age of 14. Buffett himself left home at 18, bounced through a series of Southern colleges and took guitar lessons. He began touring the Southern honky-tonk circuit and recorded his first album in Nashville. Says he: "It was a terrible record...
Gypsy Soul. When a gig in Miami fell through in 1972, Buffett stayed in Florida and settled in Key West. The shrimpers' bars suited him perfectly: "I could go out at night and come home with a hell of a story." From the sandy Key West beaches sprang a string of albums during the next few years. Among them: AI A, named for the access road near his home, Havana Daydreamin' and the waggishly titled A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean...