Grinning Shark Margaritaville Twelve Volt Man A Pirate Looks At 40 Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw Fins Volcano African Friend Come Monday Changes In Latitudes Somewhere Over China God's Own Drunk Son Of A Son Of A Sailor Stars Fell On Alabama The Night I Painted The Sky Barometer Soup We’ve spent a lot of time in Florida. For four and a half years we lived on our schooner Borealis on the hook (that’s anchored out to you lubbers) in Boot Key Harbour in Marathon in the fabulous Florida Keys. We worked all throughout the Keys but our main jobs were in Islamorada and Key West. Jimmy Buffett’s music comes from The Conch Republic and we do most of it. It’s a good thing we love Jimmy’s songs because one can’t succeed as a musician in the Keys without doing Jimmy buffett songs. People go to church to hear the sermon. People go to the Keys to hear Jimmy Buffett. Since his store, first in the Turtle Kraals and later on Duval Street, was within easy crawling distance from where we worked at The Quay we got to go see Jimmy every time he played there. I don’t know if that happens anymore but it sure was great then. Jimmy used to have a lot of truly reputable people at his store… Gamble Rogers… James Taylor… Stevie Winwood. Man, those were the days! Anyway we’re making a project of recording all the Buffett tunes we do. We love renaissance music and Celtic music but we are true Parrotheads! We hope you’ll like this cd… particularly our version of God’s Own Drunk. It’s been updated to fit in East Tennessee!

Only 17 measley dollars

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Margaritaville

Obviously this is the place to start. We are not educated enough to count the number of times we have done this song… we can’t count that high. Actually Lonnie can only count to 21 and that’s because his mother put a hole in his pocket! We spent an incredible amount of time “wasting away in Margaritaville” but we enjoyed it for sure. Check out The Journey to here the tale of The Great Sake Jereboam Caper for example. We would be Nobel Prize winning authors if we could only remember what we’ve done! Have a Margarita!

Twelve Volt Man

We know a lot of you may not realize what it is to be a 12 volt Man. When you live on a boat (or sometimes even ashore in what Americans refer derisively to as third world countries) there is no electricity available. 12 volt auto batteries are the solution. Many appliances are available in 12 volt versions. Fortunately one of these is the blender! On our schooner we were 12 volt people. It makes you appreciate “the grid”. If you’re smart it also makes you conservative with energy. We are like this song.

A Pirate Looks At 40

Mother Ocean… true in more than just evolutionary terms. Once you know her and respect her you can’t stray far from her without being incurably homesick. That is why we still have our schooner… even in Tennessee. The rest of the meaning of this song is painfully evident too. I guess folk and Celtic musicians really were born 200 years too late… we hope we can find a “niche” somewhere…

Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw

Well… why don’t we?

Fins

people like this! We were on the Star Clipper out of Antigua for quite a while. We’re glad we got to enjoy the magnificent black sand beaches in Montserrat before the latest eruption. Lots of rock and roll (and other) recording artists used to lay down their tracks (in more ways than one) at that studio in Montserrat.

Volcano

Yup! That’s the reason these two songs are back to back on this cd. This song is really fun to perform. It is so alive… and we can plug in our own lyrics in the last verse. In this version, though, we did it “straight.”

African Friend

Lonnie was born and raised in Africa so she is his home. We’ve also spent a good bit of time in Haiti. Even back when Papa Doc, then Baby Doc and even Aristide were there. It is sad to see what has become of this once beautiful island nation. It is educational to see the stark contrast between Haiti and The Dominican Republic.

Come Monday

Like Margaritaville, this piece is Gospel. We love it.

Changes In Latitudes

Another song in the Gospel category. We’ve actually lived it and we assure you it is absolutely true.

Somewhere Over China

Some of you may not have heard this one. It is the quintessential song about not abandoning your dreams. No matter how chronologically old you are… don’t give up! Like Jimmy says in another song; “I’d rather die while I’m living than live while I’m dead! We can all be somewhere over China.

God's Own Drunk

This song was originated by the late Lord Richard Buckley. He was a blues and jive musician way down in New Orleans. Everybody does this song their own way. The way a musician fleshes it out is up to him.

Son Of A Son Of A Sailor

That’s Lonnie, he’s a true son of a son of a sailor. His grandfather was a sailor on ships which were called lumber schooners. They sailed “down Maine” hauling lumber to New York City to be used in the building trade in the ‘teens and twenties. Sometimes the trips went ok and sometimes ships foundered and whole crews disappeared. It was always hard work. Lonnie’s grandfather worked on a ship that struck a rock on her way from Maine to New York. They made it in to port somewhere between Maine and New York with their decks awash. Lonnie’s grandfather and the vessel’s cook concluded at that point that they had experienced enough of seafaring life. Back in those days it was frowned upon to ”skedaddle”. The cook and Lonnie’s grandfather hid in a haystack for three days ‘til they were sure they could bow out with no opposition! Lonnie’s grandfather then moved to Illinois and became a sharecropper farmer.

Stars Fell On Alabama

We included this song just because it is so pretty. It really happened too. In the late 1800’s there was a huge meteor shower. That became the impetus for this song. Jimmy Buffett as you know was born in Alabama.

The Night I Painted The Sky

We’ve been to Sint Maarten many,. many times. We’ve stood on the beach mentioned in this song. Why we really like it though is because it contains the line “and the people everywhere put away their differences for a while”. We really wish we’d put away our differences for ever.

Barometer Soup

We just like this song a whole lot… it’s our cd… so we put it on. We’ll wager that you’ll like it too.