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Jimmy Buffett Tickets – Jimmy Buffett’s ‘Encores’ Attract Flocks of Parrotheads
Jimmy Buffett has made a name for himself over the years as a must-see live act for his eventful and tropical-themed live performances. Aside from the hula skirts and booze in the blender, part of the quintessential Jimmy Buffett concert experience is his acoustic set of encores at the end of each and every live show. Buffett has placated Parrotheads at concerts with encores for the last two decades, and he’s recently expanded his encore empire past that ‘one particular harbour.’
Last month, Buffett released a double disc of 22 live renditions of encores from concerts recorded during 2008 and 2009 tour dates. The compilation, aptly titled Encores, dropped at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 during the first week of May, becoming one of his only Top 10 hits recently. Jimmy Buffett, a niche artist whose success isn’t measured in album sales but rather in concert tickets, hasn’t seen a Top 10 release on the Billboard 200 since 2006’s Take the Weather with You, but now he’s riding high once again as a leading performer in the music industry.
Buffett’s live Encores compilation is chock-full of summery Buffett classics, ranging from clever tunes like “Growing Older but Not Up” to yearning slow-down songs like “He Went to Paris” and ultimate classics such as “A Pirate Looks at Forty” and “Coast of Carolina.” The Parrothead-in-chief explained his reasoning behind Encores in the liner notes of the album, with RTT News reporting him saying, “‘Encores’ is a collection of well known and not so well known songs that I think provide a happy ending to a musical meal… and dessert has always been my favorite.”
While some Parrotheads snack on <a href=”http://www.stubhub.com/jimmy-buffett-tickets/”>Jimmy Buffett tickets</a> to attend concerts in Hawaiian shirts and catch Buffett croon his most popular encores live on stage, most Buffett fans can agree that his lively concerts are absolute all-out displays of Caribbean-soaked action and entertainment.
The adult’s equivalent to a day spent at Disney World, Jimmy Buffett concerts allow music fans of all ages the chance to let their hair down, providing a platform for Parrotheads to get dressed in coconut bras and leis while sipping margaritas at pre-show tailgates. Buffett’s annual tours rake in millions of dollars and consistently top lists of the most popular tours of the year, and with his carefree demeanor and sun-splashed songs, who can blame fans for flocking to Buffett concerts?
Jimmy Buffett has been selling out concert tickets around the country ever since the 1970s, when he first set sail in the music industry with an album titled A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean. The album featured a hit song called “Why Don’t We Get Drunk” as well as a hearty amount of spunk and sass throughout the rest of the tracks, and the album pushed the Mississippi native onto the music scene for good.
Known for his clever songs, risqué lyrics and carefree attitude, Jimmy Buffett quickly climbed the rungs of the music industry. Smash singles like “Come Monday,” “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes,” “Volcano,” “Margaritaville” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise” helped Buffett construct the walls of his musical empire, and the laidback singer/songwriter continues to be a huge presence on the music scene today.
Buffett’s current Under the Big Top Tour is blazing a path through the country this spring and summer as Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band make the annual rounds, and Buffett concerts constantly sell out in the snap of a finger, making them hot items for sale on <a href=”http://www.stubhub.com/”>StubHub</a>.
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