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...TIME's interview with the music veteran continues here. Read these extra questions with Jimmy Buffett...
...enjoy listening to your own music and what's your favorite album of yours? -Carson Grubb in Spokane, Wash.You know, I don't listen to me much. I listen to Radio Margaritaville [on Sirius satellite radio]. The good thing about having your own radio station is they play everything you ever did. [laughs] That is not something that happens in normal earth-bound, terrestrial radio. So as I'm cruising along, I more or less listen to Radio Margaritaville because I hear things and I go "wow, that song's pretty cool, maybe I should put that back...
...have multiple albums with an awesome variety of music. Why do the radio stations only seem to have two of your songs on hand? -Dolores Gormley, Scottsdale, Ariz.Well, I think that's the way radio has always been. It is a controlled business-you have to sound a certain way to get on it. I never altered my music to do that. I made some albums where I might have bent my music, and they probably weren't some of my best efforts. But I always knew that if I had that parallel performing career, radio wouldn...
...Facebook opened its online platform to anyone who wants to build applications for it, from music-sharing services to carpool arrangers, making it a potentially much more useful tool. Some in Silicon Valley wonder excitedly if the company--which reportedly turned down a billion-dollar buyout offer from Yahoo! last year--might become not just the hottest tech IPO since Google but also the next major stage in the Web's evolution. First there was the browser, then the search engine. Now we'll move on to what Zuckerberg calls the "social graph," the filter of personal connections that defines...
MANY JAZZ EXPERTS CREDIT Bill Barber as creator of the modern jazz tuba. While playing "cool" Big Band music for Claude Thornhill, Barber impressed pioneering arranger Gil Evans with his mastery of the tuba, a background staple of early jazz bands that had become practically obsolete by the '30s. Convinced the instrument could be a tonal force in its own right, Evans included the tuba in his innovative arrangements for a nine-piece band--a body of work, featuring Barber, that became Miles Davis' legendary 1957 Birth of the Cool album...