{"id":5113,"date":"2023-09-02T18:56:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:58:22","slug":"a-tribute-to-jimmy-buffett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=5113","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute To Jimmy Buffett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Buffett wasn\u2019t just a singer-songwriter\u2014he was a lifestyle. A Southern boy who started his career trying to break into Nashville, Buffett eventually made his way to Key West, Florida, where he became synonymous with the shoes-off, feet-up image of island life. His music\u2014a blend of folk, country, and tropical sounds sometimes called \u201cgulf and western\u201d\u2014has an escapist quality, but a useful, reassuring one too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>FOR YOU LISTENING PLEASURE WE PRESENT THE JIMMY BUFFETT ESSENTIALS!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe id=\"embedPlayer\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 10px; transform: translateZ(0px); animation: 2s ease 0s 6 normal none running loading-indicator; background-color: #e4e4e4;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/us\/playlist\/jimmy-buffett-essentials\/pl.a59f207d9aad4004b388dbdc801a21c3?app=music&amp;itsct=music_box_player&amp;itscg=30200&amp;at=1010lLq2&amp;ls=1&amp;theme=auto\" height=\"450px\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s rife with good party jokes and Zenlike wisdom: a philosophy his fans continue to live by. For a guy whose best-known song, \u201cMargaritaville,&#8221; captures the pleasures of not doing all that much, Buffett was also a tremendously hard worker, parlaying the world of his music into nightclubs and restaurants, clothing lines and video games, best-selling novels and Broadway musicals. He also had one of the industry\u2019s most consistently busy touring schedules\u2014what the perennially understated Buffett once called \u201ca great summer job.\u201d Buffett passed away in September 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Buffett wasn\u2019t just a singer-songwriter\u2014he was a lifestyle. A Southern boy who started his career trying to break into Nashville, Buffett eventually made his way to Key West, Florida, where he became synonymous with the shoes-off, feet-up image of island life. His music\u2014a blend of folk, country, and tropical sounds sometimes called \u201cgulf and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6550,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions\/6550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}