Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way

And it was there, in those waning outlaw days at the last American exit, where Buffett, like Hemingway before him, found his voice and eventually brought to life the song that would launch Parrot Head nation. Filled with interviews from friends, musicians, Coral Reefer Band members past and present, and business partners who were there, this book is a top-down joyride with plenty of side trips and meanderings from Mobile and Pascagoula to New Orleans, Key West, down into the islands aboard the Euphoria and the Euphoria II, and into the studios and onto the stages where the foundation of Buffett's reputation was laid. In Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way, acclaimed music critic Ryan White has crafted the first definitive account of Buffett's rise from singing songs for beer to his emergence as a tropical icon and CEO behind the Margaritaville industrial complex, a vast network of merchandise, chain restaurants, resorts, and lifestyle products all inspired by his sunny but disillusioned hit "Margaritaville". Buffett wasn't always the pied piper of beaches, bars, and laid-back living. Born on the Gulf Coast, the son of a son of a sailing ship captain, Buffett scuffed around New Orleans in the late '60s, flunked out of Nashville (and a marriage) in 1971, and found refuge among the artists, dopers, shrimpers, and genuine characters wh

was good, ( Read it in three days ) Mark Woodward I have been a JB Fan, since 1975, way before Parrot Heads. I will admit I had set my expectations a bit too high for this book.Overall, was good , ( Read it in three days ), but I thought the author just skimmed the surface, nothing very revealing. He tending to "bob and weave" with no clear focus, which at times was confusing. Also, the author's mention of each album and each s. Chery Rout said A good read for all Parrotheads. I enjoyed this book, after I got into it. The beginning is a little heavy on the music biz in general and a lot of people I knew nothing about. However, I enjoyed all those great stories about how some of my favorite Buffett songs got written. It was great to hear some of the inside scoop from friends and people who worked with him. It seems the advent of the Parrothead phenomen. "Disappointing" according to John Paul Sassone. There are some biographies (think Hemingway) that actually add to the experience of reading the authors books. Knowing about them makes their works come more alive. Some biographies and autobiographies of musicians (think Springsteen and Carole King) do the same for their music. Unfortunately this isn't one of those books. While the book is interesting as a history of Nashville