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A look back at our review of Jimmy Buffett's 2001 concert in Birmingham

• Published: Jan. 01, 2017, 12:00 p.m.
• Mary Colurso | [email protected]

Jimmy Buffett 2001

Jimmy Buffett played to a packed house at Birmingham's BJCC Arena on Nov. 7, 2001. (The Birmingham News file photo/Frank Couch)

Jimmy Buffett performed at Birmingham's BJCC Arena on Nov. 7, 2001. Here's a look back at our review of the show, which qualifies as one of "8 Birmingham concert reviews that you hated."

By MARY COLURSO News staff writer

Parrotheads, stop right here. This review is going to make you squawk.

If you keep reading, realize that this reporter respects your inalienable right to wear grass skirts, drink tequila, do the silly fin dance and otherwise party hearty.

Likewise, if you want to idolize Jimmy Buffett, the slacker king of the sand-sun-surf nation, well, that's just fine and dandy. Looked like 18,000 of you were having loads of fun pretending the BJCC Arena was a fabulous tropical isle on Wednesday night in Birmingham.

But for some of us -- sober, out of costume, not perpetually enthralled by the barefoot bazillionaire -- that Buffett concert was about as thrilling as sand in the shorts.

Oh, it was enjoyable at first, just watching the fan shenanigans, from the colorful, bird brained headdresses to the female blow-up doll that got batted around the floor area like a volleyball.

When it came time to ignore the jolly crowd and focus on the music, however, it was hard to understand what all the fuss was about. Simple songs -- albeit beloved ones -- sung by a little, smiling bald man in a pedestrian way.

Maybe the arena's acoustics were partly to blame. Perhaps the 13-member Coral Reefer band defers to its leader too much, letting his so-so vocals rule. Possibly listeners need to imbibe a margarita or two before they can share in the Buffett magic.

Fact is, though, that a $60 show should have sounded better.

This one was loaded with hits -- "Fins," "Margaritaville," "Why Don't We Get Drunk," "Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit," "Son of a Son of a Sailor," "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes," "Volcano," "Come Monday," "Cheeseburger in Paradise" -- but the delivery was far from staggering.

Buffett's shortcomings as a singer were most obvious during the covers of CSN's "Southern Cross" and Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl," both of which lacked a fresh twist, and failing that, came nowhere near the punch of the originals.

True, Buffett's concerts seem to have become participatory events more than traditional music performances, complete with tailgating before, chanting during and reveling afterward.

But the folks who so loudly proclaim Buffett's greatness have led first-timers to believe they're in for a rare and delightful treat, making his mediocrity all the more disappointing.

** JIMMY BUFFETT BJCC Arena Wednesday night

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Inside Jimmy Buffett’s Tribute Concert: McCartney, Margaritas, and One Hell of a Parrothead Party

By John Lonsdale

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“Good evening, Hollywood-fucking-Bowl!” Paul McCartney exclaimed to the flock of Parrotheads gathered before him. A sold-out crowd had assembled in the famed Los Angeles venue on Thursday to celebrate the legacy of Jimmy Buffett at “Keep the Party Going,” a laid-back, one-night-only tribute show full of eclectic guests.

“I had the great pleasure of knowing Jimmy , and like everyone else on the bill tonight, I said, ‘This is one great man.’ He was generous. He was funny. He’d done just about everything in his life,” McCartney said, before launching into “Let It Be .” It was a song that McCartney said he’d played for Buffett at his home during the final week of his life. Buffett died in Sept. 1, 2023, at 76 after a battle with Merkel cell skin cancer.

Along with the stacked musical lineup, “Keep the Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett” featured introductions — some via video, some in person —  from Dolly Parton, James Taylor, Woody Harrelson, Pat Riley, and Dave Matthews. Harrison Ford was there in the flesh.

“There is no other way to say it: There will never be another like Jimmy,” Ford told the crowd, before introducing the Zac Brown Band as “one of Jimmy’s favorite and most-frequent collaborators.” The group jammed through the new track “Pirates & Parrots,” out April 19, and their collab with Buffett “Knee Deep,” with Brown literally taking off his pants to play the song in shorts and a tee backed by Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band.

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“Jimmy enjoyed living life more than any person enjoyed living life,” the country star said. “I can remember we were hiking one day and we were heading up this vista and we started talking about music and songwriting and our careers and his life and my life, and death. And, ‘You know, Eric,’ [Jimmy] said, ‘Guys like us, we don’t really die.’ He said, ‘because the songs live forever.'”

“And this one will,” Church said, as the opening chords to “Son of a Son of a Sailor” rang out over the Bowl and an image of a sailboat drifting along the water was projected on a screen behind the musicians. Later, a projection of the Arc de Triopmhe appeared behind Jackson Browne as he sang his stirring rendition of “He Went to Paris,” one of Buffett’s greatest cuts from 1973’s A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean .

In the latter half, the set list shifted to songs that Buffett wasn’t exactly known for: Snoop Dogg took the stage for a performance of “Gin and Juice,” alongside psychedelic visuals of Buffett in the 2019 Matthew McConaughey film The Beach Bum . And Pitbull appeared to perform his own “Don’t Stop the Party” before being joined by Jon Bon Jovi for “Thank God & Jimmy Buffett.”

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For the home stretch, Don Johnson — no stranger to pastels and warm-weather vibes from his Miami Vice days — called to the stage “a bunch of guys [they] used to hang out with back in the day” and introduced the Eagles . Led by Don Henley and Joe Walsh, the California icons played their own miniature set featuring Henley’s “The Boys of Summer” and the band’s “Take It to the Limit” and “In the City.” The Eagles hung around to back up McCartney on the Beatles’ “Let It Be.”

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“Jimmy Buffett, get a big kick out of this,” McAnally said. “Raise a glass, show ’em how to do it.”

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“It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” – Coral Reefer Band “Grapefruit – Juicy Fruit” – Jake Owen “Pencil Thin Moustache” – Coral Reefer Band “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes” – Kenny Chesney “Back Where I Come From” – Kenny Chesney “One Particular Harbour” – Angelique Kidjo “Pirates & Parrots” – Zac Brown “Knee Deep” – Zac Brown “Son of a Son of a Sailor” – Eric Church “Volcano” – Timothy B. Schmit “Tin Cup Chalice” – Brandi Carlile “Come Monday” – Brandi Carlile “Cheeseburger in Paradise” – Coral Reefer Band “He Went to Paris” – Jackson Browne “Bubbles Up” – Coral Reefer Band “Southern Cross” – JD Souther “Why Don’t We Get Drunk” – Coral Reefer Band “Gin and Juice” – Snoop Dogg “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” – Jake Shimabukuro “Don’t Stop the Party” – Pitbull “Thank God & Jimmy Buffett” – Pitbull and Jon Bon Jovi “Fins” – Sheryl Crow “A Pirate Looks at Forty” – Jack Johnson “Brown Eyed Girl” – Zac Brown and Dave Grohl “The Boys of Summer” – Eagles “Take It to the Limit” – Eagles “In the City” – Eagles “Let It Be” – Paul McCartney , Eagles “Margaritaville” – Coral Reefer Band and Company

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• Why Don't We Get Drunk
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• Meet Me in Memphis
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• A Pirate Looks at Forty
• Barefoot Children
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• Cheeseburger in Paradise

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