Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett's first album, Down to Earth, sold just 324 copies after it appeared in August 1970. Decades later, he had sold over 20 million certified records worldwide. James William Buffett became a singer-songwriter, a bestselling author and a businessman whose name now sits on restaurants, hotels and retirement communities. His devoted fans call themselves Parrotheads.
How does a musician who began with a few hundred buyers build a whole lifestyle that people pay to step into? What did he borrow from country, rock, folk and calypso to make his sound? And what happened offstage, in the planes, the courtrooms and the hospital rooms, while the songs kept promising an endless vacation?
Pascagoula, Mississippi, is where Buffett was born on the 25th of December 1946, and part of his childhood unfolded in Mobile and Fairhope, Alabama. Water ran through his family. His grandfather, also named James Delaney Buffett, was a steamship captain from Newfoundland. His father worked for the United States Army Corps of Engineers and was a marine engineer and sailor. Jesuits educated young Buffett as a Catholic, and he served as an altar boy.
In 1961, a folk music ensemble in Biloxi convinced him that he wanted to be a musician. A month later he played his first hootenanny, using a Stella guitar. Years before that, at age 8, he had played trombone in the band at St. Ignatius School. He graduated from McGill Institute in 1964.
At Auburn University, a Sigma Pi fraternity brother taught him guitar, reportedly to win attention from girls. Buffett failed out in April 1966, unable to balance music and girls against his classes. That same year he played acid rock in the Upstairs Alliance, a band that tried to sound like Jefferson Airplane. He later earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg in 1969, after time at Pearl River Community College. He worked in a shipyard as an electrician and welder, and a college deferment and a failed physical exam kept him out of the Vietnam War.
After graduating, Buffett moved to New Orleans. He played for tourists on Decatur Street and for rowdy crowds in the Bayou Room, a nightclub on Bourbon Street. In 1970 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, hoping for a country career. Music jobs were scarce, so he became an editorial assistant at Billboard, where he was the first to report that the bluegrass duo Flatt and Scruggs had split.
Barnaby Records gave him a two-album contract. The masters of his second album, High Cumberland Jubilee, were recorded in Berry Hill, Tennessee, in 1971. The label allegedly lost them, and they turned up only in 1976, after Buffett had become popular.
In the fall of 1971, an impromptu audition won him a slot at the Exit/In, a Nashville club, opening for Dianne Davidson. Still, he was unhappy with Nashville's business climate. His first marriage, to Margie Washichek in 1969, was heading toward the divorce that came in 1972. Country singer Jerry Jeff Walker, whom Buffett had met while working as a journalist, offered him a place to stay in Coconut Grove. In November 1971 the two went to Key West to busk. Buffett liked it so much that he moved there in the spring of 1972.
Key West had a literary scene, and Buffett fell into it. He met the writers Thomas McGuane, who married Buffett's sister, Jim Harrison, Tom Corcoran and Truman Capote. David Wolkowsky hired him to play for drinks at the Chart Room Bar in the Pier House Motel. A connection made there led to a day job as first mate on the yacht of Foster Talge, heir to The Rival Company.
The Chart Room gave him something else too. A University of South Carolina student named Jane Slagsvol walked in while on spring break, and she never went back to school.
In 1973, ABC/Dunhill Records, then run by Don Gant, signed Buffett. When Jim Croce died in a plane crash in September of that year, the label promoted Buffett as a replacement. His first release for the label, A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean, was recorded at Tompall Glaser's Glaser Sound studio on Music Row and released in June 1973. It carried the singles "Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit" and "Why Don't We Get Drunk," plus "I Have Found Me a Home," about his Key West life. The album's earnings bought his first boat.
Living & Dying in 3/4 Time, recorded in October 1973 and released in February 1974, stepped away from the island theme. It held "Come Monday," written for his girlfriend and future wife. That song became his first single on the Billboard Hot 100. A1A followed in December 1974 and included "A Pirate Looks at Forty," written about a drug smuggler.
In 1975 he formed the Coral Reefer Band. He credits his future wife with tidying their look, which had featured ripped Levi jeans and collarless shirts. In August 1975 the band opened for the Eagles. Two years later, the Eagles played at his wedding to Jane in Aspen, Colorado.
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes arrived in January 1977 with its title track and his breakthrough, "Margaritaville." Buffett claims he wrote most of it in six minutes. The Recording Industry Association of America ranks it 234th on its list of "Songs of the Century." The song gently mocks tourists in Key West, yet it increased tourism to the city. That year Buffett sublet his Key West apartment to Hunter S. Thompson.
In 1978 Buffett first traveled to Saint Barthélemy and soon moved there. The island gave him inspiration for songs and for characters in his books. Son of a Son of a Sailor came out in March 1978, and its "Cheeseburger in Paradise" reached number 32 on the Hot 100. In August 1979 he released Volcano, home to "Fins" and the title track. Together with the songs named above, they make up what fans call "The Big 8."
In 1983 Buffett sued the restaurant company Chi-Chi's for trying to trademark "Margaritaville" as a drink special, and he won. In October 1985 he released the compilation Songs You Know By Heart, which gathered all eight of those songs. It became his best seller, passing 7 million copies by 2005.
"Drunken Caribbean rock 'n' roll" was Buffett's own label for his music. It blended country, rock, folk, calypso and pop with coastal and tropical lyrics. In 1989, a Washington Post critic wrote that he mixed "tropical languor with country funkiness into what some have called the Key West sound, or Gulf-and-western." The name plays on Country & Western. Gulf+Western was also the former parent company of Paramount Pictures.
In 2020, The Associated Press praised a "special Gulf Coast blend of country, pop, folk and rock, topped by Buffett's swaying voice." It added that few could mix steelpans, trombones and pedal steel guitar so effortlessly. Buffett himself was blunt about the aim: "It's pure escapism is all it is." He said he tried to make work at least 50/50 fun. Greg "Fingers" Taylor, a former Coral Reefer Band member, cites him as an influence. So do Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson and Zac Brown, who latched on to his seaside-and-booze themes.
The crowds had a name by 1985. At a concert that year at the Timberwolf Amphitheater at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, Buffett noticed everyone in Hawaiian shirts and parrot hats. They kept returning, he said, just like Deadheads. Timothy B. Schmit, then in the Coral Reefer Band, coined the term "Parrot Head." The first Parrothead club was founded in Atlanta in 1989. Younger fans and children of Parrotheads are called "parakeets" or "keets."
Each year in Key West, a five-day festival called Meeting of the Minds follows Fantasy Fest and draws approximately 5,000 Parrotheads. The fanbase is mostly baby boomers, and Buffett's concerts were known for tailgate parties and heavy drinking.
The name even reached a basketball court. On the 4th of February 2001, a referee ejected Buffett from a Miami Heat game against the New York Knicks for cursing. The referee did not know who he was. When Heat coach Pat Riley tried to explain, he asked whether the referee had ever been a "Parrothead." The referee took it as an insult.
Buffett was a devoted New Orleans Saints fan who had attended the team's first game at Tulane Stadium in 1967. On the 1st of April 2012, he made Saints head coach Sean Payton an honorary member of the Coral Reefer Band at a New Orleans concert. It was a protest of the National Football League's suspension of Payton over the team's bounty scandal.
In 1994 Buffett dueted with Frank Sinatra on a cover of "Mack the Knife" for Sinatra's final studio album, Duets II. In May 1999 his song "Math Suks" drew condemnation from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the National Education Association over its alleged effect on children. Jon Stewart joked about it on The Daily Show in a segment called "Math Is Quite Pleasant."
By 1999 he had settled into 20 to 30 concerts a year, mostly on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. In 2003 he teamed with Alan Jackson on "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere," which spent a then-record eight weeks atop the Hot Country Songs chart. It won the Country Music Association's Vocal Event of the Year, his first award in 30 years of recording. In July 2004, License to Chill sold 238,500 copies in its first week and put him atop the U.S. pop albums chart for the first time. By 2010 he ranked as the tenth biggest touring artist of the decade, with 4.5 million tickets sold.
A T-shirt shop in Gulf Shores, Alabama, opened in 1984 and failed. Buffett and a friend tried again in Key West in 1985. By 1987 it had grown into Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville, the seed of a business empire. Under the Margaritaville and LandShark Bar & Grill names, restaurants spread to places including Atlantic City, New Orleans, Nashville, the Cayman Islands, The Bahamas, Las Vegas, Jamaica, Orlando and Baltimore. The cafe on the Las Vegas strip was possibly the highest grossing restaurant in the United States.
In 2002, with Bloomin' Brands, he founded the Cheeseburger in Paradise chain. Luby's bought it for $11 million in 2012, and it shut down in 2020. Through the Margaritaville brand, he also licensed hotels, casinos, cruise experiences, packaged foods, spirits, outdoor furniture, appliances and apparel.
In 1992 he launched Margaritaville Records, distributed through MCA Records, a deal that ended in 1996. In 1999 he started Mailboat Records to release live albums. In May 2005 he signed with Sirius Satellite Radio to carry Radio Margaritaville, which had been online-only since 1998. The channel broadcasts from the Margaritaville Resort Orlando in Kissimmee, Florida.
Corona sponsored his concerts, and the partnership was credited with boosting the beer's sales. Wanting his own brand, Buffett partnered with Anheuser-Busch in 2006 to brew Landshark Lager.
In 2013, Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City opened a $35 million Margaritaville-themed complex with a giant blender, a tiki bar, 12 themed table games and 160 slot machines. A Margaritaville Casino and Restaurant in Biloxi, Mississippi, licensed his name and operated from May 2012 to September 2014. Plans for a Buffett casino there had been underway since 2000.
From the 8th of May 2009 to the 5th of January 2010, the Miami Dolphins' stadium was called LandShark Stadium under an eight-month naming deal. Buffett also wrote new lyrics to "Fins" for the team to play at home games. As a baseball fan, he was part-owner of the Miami/Fort Myers Miracle from 1989 to 2014 and the Madison Black Wolf from 1996 to 2000.
THQ released a "Margaritaville Online" game for Facebook in 2012, and it was discontinued two years later. In 2016 he partnered with FunPlus on a new game.
In 2017, Buffett and the Minto Group announced Latitude Margaritaville, a 3,900-home, $1 billion retirement village near Interstate 95 in Daytona Beach, Florida. Similar communities were announced for Hilton Head Island that year and for Panama City Beach in 2021. In September 2018 he licensed "Coral Reefer" marijuana through Surterra Holdings. It launched in April 2019, and the license ended in April 2023.
Buffett's closest tie to old-fashioned finance began in the 1980s, when he befriended Warren Buffett and bought shares in Berkshire Hathaway, increasing his stake over the years. The two called each other "Cousin Jimmy" and "Uncle Warren," though they were not related.
Tales from Margaritaville and Where Is Joe Merchant? each spent over seven months on The New York Times Best Seller fiction list. His 1998 memoir, A Pirate Looks at Fifty, went straight to number one on the nonfiction list. That made him one of the few authors to reach the top of both lists.
With his eldest daughter, Savannah Buffett, he co-wrote the children's books The Jolly Mon and Trouble Dolls. The original hardcover of The Jolly Mon came with a cassette of the two reading the story over a score by Michael Utley. A Salty Piece of Land arrived on the 30th of November 2004 with a CD single of its title song, and it became a bestseller. His book Swine Not? followed on the 13th of May 2008.
In 1994 Buffett began developing a musical from Herman Wouk's 1965 novel Don't Stop the Carnival. He wrote the music and lyrics, and Wouk wrote the book. It debuted in Miami in 1997, drew negative reviews and ran just six weeks. The album of its songs, released in April 1998, was certified gold.
A second musical fared better. Escape to Margaritaville ran at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego from May to July 2017, then toured New Orleans, Houston and Chicago to good notices. Greg Garcia and Mike O'Malley wrote the book, and some Buffett lyrics were rewritten to suit the story. Previews on Broadway began at the Marquis Theatre on the 16th of February 2018 under director Christopher Ashley, and it officially opened on the 15th of March. New York critics were mixed. It closed on the 1st of July after 29 previews and 124 regular performances. A national tour launched in Providence, Rhode Island, in the fall of 2019.
On screen, he wrote the soundtrack for, co-produced and acted in the 2006 film Hoot, directed by Wil Shriner from Carl Hiaasen's book. The film dealt with conservation, a cause dear to Buffett, but it was neither a critical nor a commercial success.
His songs turned up in many films. "Don't Bug Me" went to Arachnophobia in 1990. "I Don't Know (Spicoli's Theme)" went to Fast Times at Ridgemont High in 1982, and "Hello, Texas" to Urban Cowboy in 1980. FernGully: The Last Rainforest used "If I'm Gonna Eat Somebody (It Might As Well Be You)," sung in the film by rap artist Tone Loc.
His cameos ran from Repo Man, Hook, Cobb and Congo to From the Earth to the Moon. He sang "Caribbean Amphibian" with Kermit the Frog in the Sesame Street special Elmopalooza. From 2011 to 2020 he appeared in seven episodes of the Hawaii Five-0 reboot as helicopter pilot Frank Bama. In Jurassic World in 2015, he holds two margaritas while the dinosaurs escape. He played himself in the 2019 film The Beach Bum. On Blue Bloods he played both himself and a con artist named Dickie Delaney, who posed as the singer to trick people. His final TV appearance, in the 2024 Life & Beth episode "Who Dat?", had him busking "I Will Play for Gumbo" on a New Orleans sidewalk.
In 1981, Buffett and former Florida governor Bob Graham founded the Save the Manatee Club. In 1986 he began work on a "Save the Manatee" license plate with a West Indian manatee on it, with proceeds going to the club. He was also a major donor to the Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory, and in 1987 he lobbied for reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
He liked playing for U.S. troops, and in 2002 he played at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. After the 2004 hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne, he performed at the Surviving the Storm relief concert in November. In January 2008 a Hong Kong concert raised money for the Foreign Correspondents' Club Charity Fund to help needy children.
On the 11th of July 2010, he played a free beach concert in Gulf Shores, Alabama, with Jesse Winchester and Allen Toussaint. About 35,000 people came, the aim being to draw tourists back after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Buffett changed some lyrics to refer to the disaster. After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, he flew tents in by seaplane for people who had lost their homes. After Hurricane Irma, he sent private planes to ferry supplies and gave a benefit concert in Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy. In November 2017 he also joined Kenny Chesney and Toby Keith for another hurricane relief show.
His politics leaned Democratic. He sang in Florida for Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign and for Clinton at the White House in August 2000. He hosted fundraisers for Obama in 2008 and for Hillary Clinton in 2016. In November 2018, at a West Palm Beach rally for Andrew Gillum and Bill Nelson, he rewrote song lyrics to disparage Rick Scott and Donald Trump. Some conservative fans pushed back.
His love of flying brought real danger. On the 25th of August 1994, at about 3:00 p.m. Eastern time, he crashed his Grumman G-44 Widgeon into the water off Nantucket, Massachusetts. The plane nosed over. Buffett swam to safety with only minor injuries.
In January 1996, Jamaican police shot at his Grumman HU-16 airplane, Hemisphere Dancer, believing it was smuggling marijuana. Aboard were Bono of U2, his wife and two children, Island Records producer Chris Blackwell and co-pilot Bill Dindy. The damage was minimal. Jamaica admitted its mistake and apologized, and Buffett turned the episode into "Jamaica Mistaica."
On the 6th of October 2006, French customs officials in Saint Tropez detained him for allegedly carrying over 100 ecstasy pills after his jet landed at Toulon-Hyères International Airport. He paid a $300 fine. He said the pills were a B-vitamin supplement called Foltx.
On the 26th of January 2011 at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion, he fell off the stage after an encore and lost consciousness. Trauma surgeon Gordian Fulde happened to be near the stage and treated him. Buffett woke within minutes and left the hospital the next day. He joked about the fall during his 2012 shows in Brisbane and Melbourne. By 2017 he had given up sugar and carbohydrates except on Sundays, and he no longer smoked marijuana.
The Merkel-cell carcinoma diagnosis came in 2019. It is a rare, aggressive skin cancer, and Buffett kept it private while he continued to tour through treatment. In 2020 he released Songs You Don't Know by Heart, a fan-curated set of lesser-known songs rerecorded on his notable guitars.
His final full concert took place at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego on the 6th of May 2023. Later that month he was hospitalized to address issues needing immediate attention, and he rescheduled tour dates. He still made two guest appearances at concerts by Coral Reefer Band members, in Amagansett, New York, on the 11th of June and in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, on the 2nd of July. The second was his last live performance.
In late August he entered hospice care and met with family and friends one last time. He died on the evening of the 1st of September 2023, at age 76, at his home in Sag Harbor, New York. His marriage to Jane had survived a long split. They had two daughters, Savannah, born in 1979, and Sarah Delaney, born in 1992, and an adopted son, Cameron Marley, born in 1994. They separated in the early 1980s over their partying lifestyle and reconciled in 1991 after she became sober. His estate was estimated at $275 million. In 2025, Jane Buffett sued her co-trustee of the trust that held his assets, alleging mismanagement.
President Joe Biden called him a "music icon." In April 2024, a tribute concert at the Hollywood Bowl featured Paul McCartney, the Eagles, Snoop Dogg, Harrison Ford and Pitbull. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him that year in the Musical Excellence category, a distinction he had earned with two Grammy nominations, eight gold albums and nine platinum or multi-platinum albums. James Taylor presented the honor and sang "Come Monday" with Kenny Chesney and Mac McAnally. Dave Matthews performed "A Pirate Looks at Forty."
Honors had begun while he was alive. In 2015, the University of Miami gave him an honorary doctorate in music. Wearing aviator sunglasses, he quoted his song "The Pascagoula Run" to the graduates: "it's time to see the world, time to kiss a girl, and time to cross the wild meridian." That year his hometown named Buffett Bridge for him. In 2023, a newly discovered crustacean was named Gnathia jimmybuffetti.
In 2024, Florida made the 30th of August Jimmy Buffett Day and renamed State Road A1A the Jimmy Buffett Memorial Highway. It also issued a license plate benefiting his charity, Singing for Change. In October, Hattiesburg unveiled its 57th mural, "Parrots in Paradise," by Gulfport artist Lucinda L'Enfant. In 2025, Governor Ron DeSantis awarded him the Florida Governor's Medal of Freedom.
His final album, Equal Strain on All Parts, came out in November 2023. He took the title from his grandfather's description of a nap.
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Common questions
What is Jimmy Buffett best known for?
He is best known for his tropical, island-escapism music, especially "Margaritaville" from 1977, and for the Margaritaville business brand built around it.
What are Parrotheads?
Parrotheads are Buffett's devoted fans. Timothy B. Schmit of the Coral Reefer Band coined the term after a 1985 concert in Mason, Ohio, and the first club was founded in Atlanta in 1989.
What is "The Big 8"?
It is the group of eight songs most associated with Buffett: "Margaritaville," "Come Monday," "Fins," "Volcano," "A Pirate Looks at Forty," "Cheeseburger in Paradise," "Why Don't We Get Drunk" and "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes."
How did Jimmy Buffett die?
He died on the 1st of September 2023 at his home in Sag Harbor, New York, at age 76. He had been diagnosed with Merkel-cell carcinoma, a rare skin cancer, in 2019.
Was Buffett also an author?
Yes. His books reached The New York Times Best Seller list, and his memoir A Pirate Looks at Fifty went straight to number one on the nonfiction list.
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- 20NewsJimmy Buffett's hometown of Pascagoula, Miss., is naming a bridge for himBrittany Otis — NBC 15 News — September 12, 2015
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- 41NewsFor at least a day, all the world is 'Margaritaville' in homage to Jimmy BuffettBobby Caina Calvan et al. — September 2, 2023
- 42NewsJimmy Buffett looks at 50 years after his 1st Key West gigHoward Cohen — January 15, 2022
- 43NewsJimmy Buffett's Nashville country legacy: From the EXIT/IN to 'Margaritaville' and beyondMarcus K. Dowling — September 2, 2023
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- 45Jimmy Buffett's Connection To The EaglesFebruary 9, 2018
- 46MagazineJimmy Buffett, 'Margaritaville' Singer Who Turned Island Escapism Into an Empire, Dead at 76September 3, 2023
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- 50NewsSinatra and his collaborators end up odd couples in the listless 'Duets II'J. D. Considine — November 15, 1994
- 51News'Jamaica Mistaica': Jimmy Buffett Song Inspired After Plane Sprayed by GunfireOrlando Mayorquin — September 2, 2023
- 52NewsIrreverent Song Upsets Math TeachersDana Mackenzie — June 3, 1999
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- 54BookJimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the WayRyan White — Simon & Schuster — May 9, 2017
- 55MagazineRewinding the Country Charts: Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett 'Clock-ed' in at No. 1 in 2003Jim Asker — August 9, 2018
- 56MagazineMorgan Wallen's 'You Proof' Breaks Record as Longest-Leading No. 1 in Country Airplay Chart HistoryJim Asker — December 23, 2022
- 57MagazineJohnny Cash Dominates CMA AwardsNovember 6, 2003
- 58MagazineBuffett Chills At No. 1July 31, 2004
- 59MagazineBillboard Bits: 'Six Feet Under,' Buffett, 'Early Show'May 11, 2005
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- 79NewsHistory: The term "Parrot Head" coined here in 1985July 16, 2013
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- 82NewsMeeting of the MindsNovember 1, 2018
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- 86JournalTrouble Dolls (Book)Shirley Wilton — June 1991
- 87NewsBEST SELLERS: December 26, 2004December 26, 2004
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- 100MagazineNCIS: New Orleans will feature Jimmy Buffett performanceLynette Rice — September 25, 2017
- 101Jimmy Buffett has a cameo in Hulu's Life & BethFebruary 16, 2024
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- 103Was Jimmy Buffett on 'Blue Bloods'?Paulette Cohn — 2025-09-11
- 104NewsWouk/Buffett Musical Opens Today in FLApril 19, 1997
- 105NewsJIMMY BUFFETT HEADS FOR BROADWAYLarry Katz — January 5, 1999
- 107NewsEven Jimmy Buffett does not live the Jimmy Buffett lifestyle anymoreTaffy Brodesser-Akner — February 9, 2018
- 108NewsJLG to Rep MargaritavilleApril 6, 2018
- 109NewsExclusive: Jimmy Buffett-themed LandShark Bar & Grill coming to HarborplaceAmanda Yeager — June 11, 2019
- 111NewsJimmy Buffett, 'Margaritaville' Singer and Beach-Themed Businessman, DiesAnne Steele — September 2, 2023
- 112NewsJIMMY BUFFETT STARTS HIS OWN RECORD LABELScott Benarde — April 30, 1992
- 113MagazineJimmy Buffett Delivers On His Own Mailboat LabelFebruary 25, 2002
- 114NewsHow Jimmy Buffett Accidentally Charted a Course From Margaritaville to Corona to LandShark LagerAaron Goldfarb — April 18, 2019
- 115NewsJimmy Buffett almost had his own casino in Atlantic CityNicholas Huba — August 13, 2016
- 117NewsBiloxi's Margaritaville casino closing by Sept. 19Jeff Amy — July 21, 2014
- 118NewsGlut quiets casino boom: Plans begin to gather dustDave Palermo — July 30, 2000
- 119NewsThe End of the "Land Shark" Stadium Era is Almost Upon UsKyle Munzenrieder — December 9, 2009
- 120NewsJimmy Buffett's 'Fins' song and the Dolphins' fight song, Which one is the fan-favorite?Lianna Norman — August 23, 2023
- 121NewsFort Myers Miracle baseball team changes ownershipDavid Dorsey — April 28, 2014
- 122NewsSinger Buffett a baseball ownerDecember 21, 1995
- 123NewsJimmy Buffett's Margaritaville to Launch Mobile GameTodd Spangler — February 19, 2016
- 124NewsReal-life Margaritaville wows parrothead retireesSusan Taylor Martin — March 15, 2018
- 125NewsJimmy Buffett's countless ventures now include a retirement spot for the ParrotheadsBob Bestler — March 18, 2017
- 126NewsJimmy Buffett Announces Second Location For Margaritaville Adult Communities As Hilton Head, SCDana Feldman — May 25, 2017
- 127NewsWant a house in the new Panama City Beach Margaritaville Watersound community? Get in lineNathan Cobb — June 25, 2021
- 128Jimmy Buffett Gets Into the Marijuana Business With Billionaire Wrigley HeirDavid Meyer — September 11, 2018
- 129Press releaseJimmy Buffett and Surterra Wellness Launch Cannabis Brand, Coral ReeferPR Newswire — April 16, 2019
- 130NewsNew Partners in Weed Startup: Jimmy Buffett and Wrigley ScionJennifer Maloney — September 11, 2018
- 131NewsJimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer medical cannabis debuts at Surterra Wellness in TallahasseeTaMaryn Waters — April 18, 2019
- 132NewsJimmy Buffett Used His Influence To Help The Environment, Save The ManateesJon McGowan — September 2, 2023
- 134NewsGuantanamo Parrotheads are BuffettedCarol Rosenberg — December 8, 2002
- 137NewsJimmy Buffett dies aged 76 leaving behind '$1bn fortune' as heartfelt tributes flood in for legendary starGregory Robinson — September 2, 2008
- 138VideoJimmy Buffett Hong Kong concert interview Part 1January 31, 2008
- 139NewsFrom Placido Domingo to 'gulf and western' with Jimmy BuffettAndrew Sun — November 29, 2007
- 140NewsJimmy Buffett hopes to boost Gulf spirits with Sunday concertJuly 6, 2010
- 141NewsJimmy Buffett Concert Draws Crowd on Oil CoastJuly 11, 2010
- 142NewsAlong the Gulf Coast, trying to survive the oil spillJuly 18, 2010
- 143NewsJimmy Buffett brings Haiti earthquake relief 'one seaplane at a time'March 3, 2010
- 144Come Monday: A Song Jimmy Buffett Wrote For His WifeMarch 12, 2019
- 145NewsWho are Jimmy Buffett's kids? Meet the famed singer's 3 adult childrenJoyann Jeffrey — September 2, 2023
- 147NewsJimmy Buffett sells Palm Beach home for $18.5 millionJune 4, 2010
- 148NewsJimmy Buffett Picks up a Third Palm Beach Home for $1.3 MillionJune 27, 2013
- 150NewsSelling paradise: Jimmy Buffett gets $7M for Palm Beach homeJordan Pandy — December 1, 2020
- 151NewsMusician and Pilot Jimmy Buffett Flies WestJulie Boatman — September 2, 2023
- 152NewsJimmy Buffett escapes plane crashAugust 26, 1994
- 153Jimmy Buffett: more Catholic than you think?Jonah McKeown — 6 September 2023
- 154Goodman: A tribute to Jimmy Buffett, legendary sports fanJoseph Goodman — 2023-09-02
- 155NewsPHOTO: Sean Payton Plays Bongos During Jimmy Buffett ConcertBrian Floyd — April 1, 2012
- 157NewsBuffett Booted from NBA Game
- 158NewsBuffett Booted from NBA GameFebruary 4, 2001
- 159NewsJimmy Buffett putting drug 'bust' in pastOctober 10, 2006
- 160MagazineJimmy Buffett Says French Authorities Can't Tell Ecstasy From VitaminsElizabeth Goodman — October 10, 2006
- 161NewsFrench say Buffett had X; rep claims it was medicineOctober 7, 2006
- 162NewsJimmy Buffett 'Doing Well' After Sydney Concert FallJanuary 26, 2011
- 163NewsJimmy Buffett doing well after stage fallJanuary 26, 2011
- 164NewsJimmy Buffett fall: Doctor was in front row at Australian showLawrence Specker — January 27, 2011
- 165NewsEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Jimmy Buffett Was Not Breathing After Fall -- Says DoctorJanuary 27, 2011
- 166NewsHow I helped save folk rock legend Jimmy BuffettGordian Fulde — January 28, 2011
- 167NewsMargaritaville singer Jimmy Buffett returns to play in Australia after Sydney stage fall declaring 'I wasn't drunk'James Wigney — August 30, 2012
- 168NewsJimmy Buffett sings for ClintonAugust 25, 2000
- 169NewsJimmy Buffett and Paul McCartney join Hillary Clinton for star-studded fundraiserAugust 31, 2016
- 170NewsJimmy Buffett Ruffles Parrothead Feathers by Playing Rally For Florida DemocratsMaggie Serota — November 5, 2018
- 171MagazineJimmy Buffett Takes Digs at Republicans During Florida Democratic RallyNovember 4, 2018
- 172NewsJimmy Buffett reschedules concert for health issues that needed 'immediate attention'Debra Worley — May 19, 2023
- 173NewsJimmy Buffett's Cause Of Death RevealedSherah Janay Ndjongo — September 2, 2023
- 174NewsJimmy Buffett's Last Words Let Family Know the Party Wasn't OverBilly Dukes — September 6, 2023
- 175NewsBiden commemorates Jimmy Buffett as 'American music icon who inspired generations'September 2, 2023
- 178VideoJimmy Buffett offers advice in 2015 University of Miami graduation speechMay 8, 2015
- 179NewsPascagoula dedicates bridge to Jimmy Buffett; declares 'Jimmy Buffett Day'September 12, 2015
- 180NewsNewly found sea creature named for music legend BuffettHoward Cohen — August 9, 2023
- 182Hattiesburg's 57th mural honoring Jimmy BuffettWxxv25.com — October 4, 2024
- 184BookJimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the WayRyan White — Atria Publishing Group — May 9, 2017
- 185MagazineA Sunset Toast to Jimmy BuffettNick Paumgarten — September 5, 2023
- 187Matthew Mcconaughey's 'The Beach Bum' Was Inspired by Two Jimmy Buffett SongsJordan Moreau — March 29, 2019
- 188Jimmy Carter documentary to open 2020 Tribeca Film FestivalFebruary 20, 2020
- 189NewsHow Austin is part of the legend of Jimmy Buffett and MargaritavilleSharon Chapman — September 2, 2023
- 190Elmopalooza!Tony Scott — February 18, 1998
- 199Jimmy Buffett tour starts the season early with SummerzcoolAllison Reitz — February 3, 2009
- 200Buffett, JimmyUNC Press Books — 2014