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    Jimmy Buffett Admits to Relearning Old Songs to Make 'Songs You Don't Know By Heart'

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    Speaking about his follow-up to ‘Life on the Flip Side’, the ‘Margaritaville’ singer claims that it was actually meant to be an online video performance series during the coronavirus shutdown.

    Dec 11, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Easy-listening star Jimmy Buffett had to do his homework before recording his new album of old songs, because he’d forgotten the lyrics to so many of his lesser known tunes.
    The singer’s latest release, “Songs You Don’t Know By Heart”, was initially the idea for a video performance series online during the coronavirus shutdown, and it’s all thanks to his daughter Delaney, and her pal.
    “It started out as one of those silver lining things that actually do happen, fortunately, to some people during this pandemic…,” Buffett told U.S. breakfast show “Today”.
    “Delaney and a friend of hers from high school, who had been working for us for a little while, came up with the idea to go to fans and ask them, ‘Hey, he’s not doing shows, what songs would you like to hear that he hasn’t played in 20 years?’ so that became ‘Songs You Don’t Know By Heart’.”

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    However, Buffett admits he didn’t expect fans to dig so deep – and he had to brush up on his old lyrics once they narrowed down the tracklisting.
    “There were a lot of them that I had to go back and learn…!” the 73-year-old laughed. “I’m old, and I’ve been doing this for 40 years!”
    “They (Delaney and her friend) got like 10,000 setlists (suggested by fans) in a short period of time, and so we collected 50 of the most voted on songs, and went to 15 which we could do, and that was the video (series),” he explained.
    “And then we started getting mail back from people saying, ‘Why doesn’t your dad go in the studio and do an acoustic album?’ So as a person who hadn’t made an album in seven years, I made two in three months!”
    “Songs You Don’t Know By Heart” is the follow-up to “Life on the Flip Side”, which he dropped in May. Prior to that project, he hadn’t released a new album since 2013’s “Songs from St. Somewhere”.

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      Jimmy Buffett, 73, Calls Off Grand Ole Opry Debut Following Spike in U.S. Coronavirus Cases

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      The ‘Margaritaville’ hitmaker has decided to cancel his scheduled trip to Nashville for the upcoming weekend Grand Ole Opry performance due to Covid-19 concerns.
      Jun 21, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Jimmy Buffett has cancelled his debut at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee on Saturday night, June 20, 2020 over COVID-19 fears.
      The “Margaritaville” hitmaker was billed to perform with Brad Paisley and songwriter Mac McAnally as part of the Opry’s weekly TV and radio variety show, but a spike in coronavirus cases has forced him to pull out of the gig – even though he would have been playing to an empty theatre.
      “I would just like to say how disappointed I am that because of circumstances with the recent spikes in COVID-19, I have had to postpone my trip to Nashville to play with Mac and Brad Paisley,” a Facebook statement reads.
      “I have loved the Grand Ole Opry since the days I covered shows at the Ryman (Auditorium) as a Billboard reporter on Music Row in the early 70s before I moved to Margaritaville. As soon as it is safe for me to travel back to Music City and meet up with Mac and Brad, I will come play for you. Can’t wait. See you then and keep your Fins Up.”
      Opry bosses have been staging their weekly TV and radio shows throughout the pandemic, sticking rigidly to health guidelines, employing as few staff as possible, and banning the public from attending the gigs.

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      Jimmy Buffett Felt Guilty for Playing Many Drunken Shows

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      The ‘Margaritaville’ singer decides to clean up his act and seek therapy for his alcohol addiction as he felt terrible for playing numerous hangover concerts.
      May 31, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Jimmy Buffett knew it was time to sober up for concerts when he realised he was cheating fans out of the best gig.
      The “Margaritaville” hitmaker admits he has played a series of hangover gigs and he always felt terrible about cheating fans.
      “I’ve done it and I’m not proud of it… they call it take-the-money-and-run shows, where you might not be feeling your best and you know that you can get away with something and the audience won’t know it because they’re so happy to be there anyway and I felt terrible when those things happened,” the singer tells Rolling Stone. “I never wanted to do another.”
      “You can do the amazing hangover show because adrenalin kicks in… but when all of a sudden it was two days and you’re still feeling funky… I thought, ‘Recovering from this is taking, like, surgical recovery days. I don’t wanna do this anymore’, and I just didn’t. I scared myself a few times.”
      Buffett started sobering up in his 40s and turned to therapy for a little help and now, at 73, he’s amazed he wasn’t a rock ‘n’ roll casualty, like so many of his friends.
      “You think you’re bulletproof at that age… but to me, at that point in time, I didn’t want to make my family ashamed of me, and that was a very strong deterrent from doing that and to make that change in my life at that time.”
      “I had friends who are gone along the way to that (sic)… and I always wanted to emulate those guys… Jim Morrison was 27 years old when he died and Mama Cass was 32 and I’m sitting here at 73… I forgot about how young people went away and I just feel lucky I got through it. I made some kinda right decision at the right time…”
      But his decision to clean up his act meant he had to steer clear of some good friends, like writer Hunter S. Thompson. “We had an amazing relationship but there were times I didn’t wanna be around him because I knew he was going there…,” Jimmy explains.

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