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IMMY Buffet has traveled a lot
iles, sung a lot of songs and
partaken of a lot of mind altering
substances on his road to the top in
the world of rock 'n' roll music.
Yet through all those miles, through
all those songs and through all those
bottles of tequila (or rum, or gin, or
whatever). Buffet has held on to the
one thing that makes this fun-loving
singer from down Florida way one
heck of a performer.
jimmy Buffet has a sense of humor.
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Album Durham concert reflect Jimmy's style
He talks with not to or at his
audience and he at least acts like he's
grateful to the folks who pay his
' salary his fans for all the records
and concert tickets they buy. In short, "
Buffet has fun doing what he does.
That fun . flowed across the
footlights and -into a nearly-full
Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke
Sunday night as Buffet and his Coral
Reefer Band blew into Durham on a
warm breeze and brought a breath of
the Florida sunshine into the area that
no high pressure system or cold front
could ever match.
Buffet's stop in Durham was the
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last of a swing made through North
Carolina on his latest tour, which is
timed With the release of Buffet's
latest album, Coconut Telegraph.
Both the album and the live show
devised for this tour are vintage
Buffet If you like him, you'll love the
new album and you missed a show
you'd have loved. If you don't
particularly go for Buffet, neither the
LP or the show will or would have
changed your mind.
First, there's N the album. It is
perhaps most notable among Buffet ,
albums for its jacket art a soft
toned photo of Buffet vin a phone
booth beneath a swaying palm tree, a
drawing of a set of coconut stereo
headphones a more subdued
overall style than found on most
Buffet LPs. Once you get inside,
"though, there's not much doubt that
the music is that of Jimmy Buffet.
Side One is almost cliche. The
lilting quality of the title cut,
"Coconut Telegraph," is typical of
the a! most-reggae tunes found on
Volcano, his previous LP release. The
other songs on the first side are OK,
but the theme gets a little old.
But while the first side of Coconut
Telegraph is a little less than exciting,
the second side is much better. The
best two songs, in fact, lead off the
side. .
- "The Weather is Here, I Wish You
Were Beautiful," is almost as cute as
a song as a title. The best song,
though, is "Stars Fell on Alabama," a
tune written in 1934 which sounds
like a song Frank Sintra would croon.
Buffet does a good job on it, though,
and it offers a nice break before he
goes back into the CaribbeanGulf
Jimmy Buffet belts
out a "breath of
Florida sunshine"
to a crowd at -Cameron
Indoor
stadium at Duke
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The first single released from the
LP is a tune from Side One called ''It's
My Job," which is an OK tune, and a
song Buffet calls his theme for the
'80s (also on side one), "I'm Growing
Older But Not Up." is similarly
mediocre.
Buffet worked in these and a whole "
lot more during his two hour, 25
minute show at Duke Sunday. Buffet
uses no opening act, choosing to play,
two sets of just over an hour each
with a 15-minute break in the middle.
It was a Jimmy Buffet tour de
force. From the opening number,
"Stranded on a Sandbar," which
includes the line Buffet seems to
live "I enjoy this life as a drifter, it
seems to keep me moving around,"
to the last notes of "Stars Fell on
Alabama" in the second encore, the
audience was Buffet's.
All the Buffet favorites from
"Come Monday," "Manana," and
"The Pirate Looks at Forty," to
"Margaritaville," "Cheeseburger in
Paradise" and "Cod's Own Drunk"
were a part of the show. Buffet sang
just about everything the crowd could
have come to hear, and the Buffet,
fans were pleased.
Buffet is one of those performers
who does what he likes to do and in
doing so, he pleases the fans who like
that kind of stuff. The rest well
Buffet's come a long way and he's
making enough money to keep the
crew on the road, the record company
happy and his recreational
substances supplier in business. jv3
David Poole is a staff writer for The 1
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