I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone Music Now. We've had way too many deaths of

legendary musicians this year and the latest is Jimmy Buffett who just died of

skin cancer at the age of 76.

Three years ago at the height of the pandemic, I sat down for an interview with Jimmy,

and today I'm going to feature a brand new edit of that conversation.

It might seem like a weird comparison but Jimmy

Buffett's catalog reminds me of Rod Stewart's in a way. There's the big

commercial artist that everyone knows and then there's the first few albums

that are entirely different and really

their best work. In Jimmy's case he started out in the 70s as a poetic and

melancholy singer-songwriter known for his story songs.

I pulled into the regular pump Dylan was feeling quite at ease.

Roll down the window and told the man if the sense were a plea.

And no less than Bob Dylan was a huge fan of that era.

After that initial run, Jimmy of course turned the island vacation hedonism that he actually portrayed quite

ambival on his 1977 song Margaritaville into a business empire and became a huge touring act as well.

In our 2020 interview conducted as he was about to release the final studio album of his lifetime,

life on the flip side.

Jimmy looked back on his whole life and career.

Here's that conversation.

He's heading up to San Francisco

for the Labor day weekend show.

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