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Music:
There is no real order to my favorite artist 's or musician's in the discography below and it varies in taste as you will see. The only exceptions would have to be Jimmy Buffett, Bertie Higgins, Mark Mulligan, Eric Stone, Gary Seiler and Rob Mehl as far as being my most favorite musicians to listen to especially when I am writing. You can also add to the growing list of independent artists Jack Mosley, Kelly McGuire, Sunny Jim White. Every artist listed below is someone I listen to weekly and collect. The list here will grow in the future, when my fingers rest. This music is apart of my life just as friends and family are. I have a lot of the old stuff still in album form, which my daughters now enjoy looking at and both wish they still made them like that, instead of CD’s. Ya’ll do remember albums and sitting for hours listening to the music and looking at the art work and reading all the great stuff the artist put on them. Think back to Elton John’s “Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy or Al Stewarts “Year of the Cat”, those were two great album cover’s and music. I would like to say one other thing before going any further with telling my story, and that is, I buy all my music, I have never down loaded anything illegally and never would. The artist’s have worked their butt’s off to give us a piece of themselves and stealing there work of art is absolutely unacceptable to me. You can click on any name listed here and go to there personal WEB Site's and buy their music. And of course there is always CD Baby, Amazon, or a multitude of other WEB stores to purchase their music from. Several of the musicians actually autograph the CD’s for you, Bertie and Jan Hammer, just to name two. So my friends, how did I become a cross pollinated Parrothead / Bonehead? When the Freebird went down in a Louisiana swamp in 1977, it forever more changed my musical taste. I was a southern rocken roller to the core, from the moment my older brother Harry turned me on to the Outlaws and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s music. Cruising the mountain roads or back roads as they were called, where I grew up, listening to the car stereo crank out the songs from 8 track tapes. Have I labeled my generation and age again by mentioning 8 track tapes. Can you remember having to stick a piece of paper under the tape to keep it tracking right, enough for nostalgia? During the mid to late seventies there were a lot of great southern rock bands. Southern bands like Thirty-Eight Special Molly Hatchet, Charlie Daniels, Marshall Tucker, Blackfoot, and the Allman Brothers, along with the names already mention, filled out the roster. Those were awesome times with great music. But after the plane crash, it was almost as if the flame was put out immediately for that type of music and it didn’t help that “disco” came roaring into the main stream to fill every radio station in the free world. Well you know the songs that they assaulted us with on a daily basis. I spent several years bouncing around listening to many different artists, bands and styles of music. My listening taste ranged from Ted Nugent too Supertramp, pretty wide ranging. While living overseas off the Mediterranean coast of Sicily, A fellow "Airdale" I was station with introduced me to jazz in the form of George Benson, Earl Klugh, Tom Scott, Spyro Grya and others. That music became my Sunday morning music, when it was a time for reflection and thought at the end of each week. Jazz, coffee and a good book were the norm for a Sunday morning. Also at this time, Jimmy Buffet was already recording and putting out great music for the past seven years and Steve Winwood had just released Ark of the Diver in late 1980. There was something about Steve’s album that fit in perfect with the Mediterranean and the beach. Many parties were held and the music blared out of monstrous stereos bought at the PX. It became a contest to see who could by the largest amount of watts. I still have my Sansui system that crank’s out 300 watts. Although I seldom get past a few watts nowadays, age has mellowed me somewhat or at least my hearing. But the actual change or conversion to becoming a Parrothead started when I met an old salt in the Navy who was probably one of the first Parrothead’s, in 1978. We spent many hours listening to Jimmy’s music, looking out over the “Chesapeake Bay’ and sipping dark rum. I remember one of his favorite sayings, “Why don’t we smoke dope, snort coke and fool around with the young and the old folk”. The man would have been a pirate had he been born several hundred years ago. Jerry was a friend to young man who was in a strange place and away from home for the first time in his life and he will never be forgotten. Sail on my friend wherever you are. It was something about the music of Jimmy Buffet and the atmosphere which centered me. Songs and tales about sailing to far away tropical islands. Pillaging and plundering the ladies, treasure, and pirates who were becoming forty. Of love lost and gained, and being drunk and the hangovers that followed and let’s not forget the brown-eyed beauties. So a lot of my music was put away and I mainly listened to Jimmy Buffet for a time. My listening taste would change again, but only slightly when I heard Bertie’s songs played for the first time in 1982 “Just Another Day In Paradise” and “Key Largo”. In ‘83’ Pirates and Poets was released and I was hooked from that point on and became a fan ‘Bonehead’ and listener of Trop Rock. The years have flown by and both Bertie and Jimmy have gotten better with age, just as wine does. Again age has mellowed me and I try not to act like a pirate, scallywag or scoundrel everyday. Once a week is about all I can muster now or I fear that my wife would make me walk the plank. Keeping my life on a steady course and storm free, just like a ship, is my main purpose nowadays. Living through your younger days when you are slightly on the wild side is quite a feat. If wisdom can be gained quickly your chances of living longer improve. Lastly, there are artists like Gordon Lightfoot, Harry Chapin, Dan Fogelberg, Al Stewart and others like them who have been putting out great music for more years than I care to remember. So now you can wonder through the pages below and see if a song or artist you have forgotten about reminds you of a time gone by or a great memory of a lost love or party you went too that still has a warm place in your heart. P
Crank It Up
**** There are three songs that would probably be classified as my most favorite of Jimmy’s. “A Pirate Looks at Forty, Island, and Little Miss Magic.” For a father of daughters, Mac McAnally writing the most awe inspiring song, “Little Miss Magic” and Jimmy singing it, is still a song to make me sniffle. ****
High Cumberland Jubilee 1) Ace 2) Rockefeller Square 3) Bend a Little 4) In the Shelter 5) Death Valley Lives 6) High Cumberland Dilemma 7) Livingston's Gone to Texas 8) England 9) Travelin' Clean 10) The Hangout Gang 11) God Don't Own a Car 12) High Cumberland Jubilee/Comin' Down Slow
Down To Earth 1) The Christian 2) Ellis Dee (He Ain't Free) 3) Richard Frost 4) The Missionary 5) A Mile High in Denver 6) The Captain and the Kid 7) Captain America 8) Ain't He a Genius 9) Turnabout 10) There's Nothin' Soft About Hard Times 11) I Can't Be You Hero Today 12) Truckstop Salvation
A White Sport Coat and A Pink Crustacean 1) The Great Filling Station Hold Up 2) Railroad Lady 3) He Went To Paris 4) Grapefruit - Juicy Fruit 5) Cuban Crime Of Passion 6) Why Don’t We Get Drunk 7) Peanut Butter Conspiracy 8) They Don’t Dance Like Carmen No More 9) I Have Found Me A home 10) My Lovely Lady 11) Death Of An Unpopular Poet Living and Dying In ¾ Time 1) Pencil Thin Mustache 2) Come Monday 3) Ringling, Ringling 4) Brahma Fear 5) Brand New Country Star 6) Livingston’s Gone To Texas 7) The Wino and I know 8) West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown 9) Saxophones 10) Ballad Of Spider John 11) God’s Own Drunk
A1A 1) Makin’ Music For Money 2) Door Number Three 3) Dallas 4) Presents To send you 5) Stories We Could Tell 6) Life Is Just A Tire Swing 7) A Pirate Looks At Forty 8) Migration 9) Trying To Reason with Hurricane Season 10) Nautical Mile 11) Tin Cup Chalice
Havana Daydreamin’ 1) Woman Goin’ Crazy On Carolina Street 2) My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink And I Don’t Love Jesus 3) The Captain And The Kid 4) Big Rig 5) Defying Gravity 6) Havana Daydreamin’ 7) Clichés 8) Something So Feminine About A Mandolin 9) Kick It In Second Winds 10) The Hotel Room
Changes In Latitudes / Changes In Attitude 1) Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitude 2) Wonder Why We Ever Go Home 3) Banana Republic 4) Tampico Trauma 5) Lovely 6) Margaritaville 7) In The Shelter 8) Miss You So Badly 9) Biloxi 10) Landfall
Son Of A Son Of A Sailor 1) Son Of A Son Of A Sailor 2) Fool Button 3) The Last line 4) Livingston Saturday Night 5) Cheeseburger In Paradise 6) Coast Of Marseilles 7) Cowboy In the Jungle 8) Manana 9) African friend “You had to be there” 1) Son Of A Son Of A Sailor 2) Pencil Thin Mustache 3) Wonder Why We Ever Go Home 4) Land Fall 5) Miss You So Badly 6) Havana Daydreamin’ 7) Margaritaville 8) Changes In Latitude, Changes in Attitude 9) Come Monday 10) Perrier Blues 11) Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit 12) God’s On Drunk 13) He Went To Paris 14) The Captain And The Kid 15) Why Don’t We get Drunk 16) A Pirate Looks At Forty 17) Tampico Trauma 18) Morris’ Nightmare 19) Dixie Diner
Volcano 1) Fins 2) Volcano 3) Treat Her Like A Lady 4) Stranded On A Sandbar 5) Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants 6) Survive 7) Lady I Can’t Explain 8) Boat Drinks 9) Dreamsicle 10) Sending The Old Man Home
Coconut Telegraph 1) Coconut Telegraph 2) Incommunicado 3) It’s My Job 4) Growing Up But Not Older 5) The Good Fight 6) The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful 7) Stars Fell On Alabama 8) Island 9) Little Miss Magic
Somewhere Over China 1) Where’s The party 2) It’s Midnight And I’m Not Famous Yet 3) I Heard I Was In Town 4) Somewhere Over China 5) When Salome Plays The Drums 6) Lip Service 7) If I Could Just Get It On Paper 8) Steamer 9) On A Slow Boat to China
One Particular Harbor 1) Stars On the Water 2) I Used To have Money One Time 3) Livin’ It up 4) California Promises 5) One Particular Harbor 6) Why You Wanna Hurt My heart 7) Honey Do 8) We Are The people Our Parents Warned Us About 9) Twelve Volt Man 10) Brown Eyed Girl 11) Distantly In Love
Riddles In The Sand 1) Who’s The Blonde Stranger 2) When The Wild Life Betrays Me 3) Ragtop Day 4) She’s Going Out Of My Mind 5) Bigger Than The Both Of Us 6) Knees Of My heart 7) Come To My moon 8) Love In Decline 9) Burn That Bridge 10) La Vie Dansante
Last Mango In Paris 1) Everybody’s On the Run 2) Frank And Lola 3) The Perfect Partner 4) Please Bypass The Heart 5) Gypsies In The Palace 6) Desperation Samba 7) If The Phone Doesn’t Ring It’s Me 8) Last Mango In Paris 9) Jolly Mon Sing 10) Beyond The End
Songs You Know By Heart 1) Cheese Burger In paradise 2) He Went To Paris 3) Fins 4) Son Of A Son Of A Sailor 5) A Pirate Looks At Forty 6) Margaritaville 7) Come Monday 8) Changes In Latitude, Changes In Attitude 9) Why Don’t We Get Drunk 10) Pencil Thin Mustache 11) Grapefruit –Juicy Fruit 12) Boat Drinks 13) Volcano
Floridays 1) I Love The Now 2) Creola 3) First Look 4) Meet Me In Memphis 5) Nobody Speaks To The Captain No More 6) Floridays 7) If It All Falls Down 8) No Plane On Sunday 9) When The Coast Is Clear 10) You’ll Never Work In Dis Bidness Again
Songs You Know By Heart 1) Cheeseburger In Paradise 2) He Went To Paris 3) Fins 4) Son of A Son of A Sailor 5) A Pirate Looks At Forty 6) Margaritaville 7) Come Monday 8) Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes 9) Why Don't we Get Drunk 10) Pencil Thin Mustache 11) Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit 12) Boat Drinks 13) Volcano
Hot Water 1) Great Heart 2) Smart Woman 3) That’s What Living Is To me 4) Home Made Music 5) Baby’s Gone Shopping 6) Bring Back The Magic 7) My Barracuda 8) L’ Air de la Louisiane 9) Prince Of Tide 10) Pre – You 11) King Of Somewhere Hot
Off To See The Lizard 1) Carnival Road 2) Take Another Road 3) That’s My Story And I am Stickin To It 4) Why The Things We Do 5) Gravity Storm 6) Off To See the Lizard 7) Boomerang Love 8) Strange Bird 9) I Wish Lunch Could Last Forever 10) The Pascagoula Run 11) Mermaid In The Night 12) Changing Channels
Feeding Frenzy 1) You’ll Never Work In Dis Bidness Again 2) The City 3) Last Mango In Paris 4) Come Monday 5) Why Don’t We Get Drunk 6) One Particular Harbor 7) Honey Do 8) Cheese Burger In Paradise 9) Pirate Looks At Forty 10) Jolly Mon Sing 11) Gypsies In The Palace 12) Fins 13) Margaritaville 14) Jamaica Farewell 15) Volcano
Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads Boats 1) Son Of A Son Of A Sailor 2) Havana Daydreaming 3) Manana 4) Treat Her Like A Lady 5) Steamer 6) Jolly Mon Sing 7) Nautical Wheelers 8) Take It Back 9) On A Slow Boat To China 10) Changes In Latitude, Changes In Attitude 11) Love And Luck 12) The Captain An d The Kid 13) Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season 14) Boat Drinks 15) One Particular Harbor 16) A Pirate Looks At Forty 17) Lovely Cruise Beaches 1) Margaritaville 2) Grapefruit – Juicy Fruit 3) Ragtop Day 4) Frank And Lola 5) Tin Cup Chalice 6) Knees On My Heart 7) Money Back Guarantee 8) When The Coast Is Clear 9) Biloxi 10) Distantly In Love 11) Coconut Telegraph 12) Stars On The Water 13) Who’s The Blonde Stranger 14) I Have Found Me A Home 15) Christmas In The Caribbean 16) Volcano 17) Brown Eyed Girl 18) Cheeseburger In Paradise Bars 1) Fins 2) The Weather Is Here Wish You Were Beautiful 3) Tampico Trauma 4) Livingston Saturday Night 5) Cuban Crime Of Passion 6) First Look 7) The Wino And I know 8) The Great Filling Station Hold Up 9) Why Don’t We Get Drunk 10) Elvis Imitations 11) Pencil Thin Mustache 12) Kick In Second Wind 13) Desperation Samba 14) When Salome Plays The Drum 15) They Don’t Dance Like Carmen No More 16) The Pascagoula Run 17) Sending The Old Man Home 18) Domino Collage Ballads 1) Come Monday 2) Defying Gravity 3) Survive 4) Incommunicado 5) I Heard I was In Town 6) Ballad Of Spider John 7) Little Miss Magic 8) California Promises 9) If The Phone Doesn’t Ring, It’s me 10) African Friend 11) Everlasting Moon 12) Pre-You 13) Middle Of The Night 14) Coast Of Marseilles 15) Island 16) He Went To Paris 17) Stars Fell On Alabama 18) Changing Channels 19) Twelve Volt Man
Before The Beach 1) Ellis Dee 2) The Missionary 3) A Mile High In Denver 4) The Captain And The Kid 5) Captain America 6) Turnabout 7) There Ain’t Nothing Soft About Hard Times 8) I Can’t Be Your Hero Today 9) Truckstop Salvation 10) Ace 11) Rockefeller Square 12) Bend A Little 13) In The Shelter 14) Death Valley Lives 15) Livingston’s Gone To Texas 16) England 17) Travelin’ Clean 18) High Cumberland Jubilee/Coming Down Slow 19) High Cumberland Dilemma
Fruitcakes 1) Everybody’s Got A Cousin In Miami 2) Fruitcakes 3) Lone Palm 4) Six String Music 5) Uncle John’s Band 6) Love The Library 7) Quietly Making Noise 8) Frenchman For The Night 9) Sunny Afternoon 10) Vampires, Mummies& The Holy Ghost 11) She’s Got You 12) Delaney Talks To Statues 13) Apocalypso
Barometer Soup 1) Barometer Soup 2) Barefoot Children In The Rain 3) Bank Of Bad habits 4) Remittance Man 5) Diamond As Big As The Ritz 6) Blue Heaven Rendezvous 7) Jimmy Dreams 8) Lage Nom Ai 9) Don’t Chu Know 10) Ballad Of Skip Wiley 11) The Night I Painted The Sky 12) Mexico
Banana Wind 1) Only Time Will Tell 2) Jamaica Mistaica 3) School Boy Heart 4) Banana Wind Instrumental 5) Holiday 6) Bob Robert’s Society Band 7) Overkill 8) Desdemona’s Is Building A Rocket Ship 9) Cultural Infidel 10) Happily Ever After 11) False Echoes
Christmas Island 1) Christmas Island 2) Jingle Bells 3) A Sailors Christmas 4) Happy Xmas (War Is Over) 5) Up On The House Top 6) Mele Kalikimaka 7) Run Rudolph Run 8) Ho Ho Ho And A Bottle Of Rhum 9) I’ll Be Home For Christmas 10) Merry Christmas, Alabama (Never Far From Home) |
