Key West Lou / JIMMY BUFFETT WEEKEND IN KEY WEST
Key West’s Jimmy Buffett weekend has arrived. Labeled “Just a Few Friends Key West” commemorating one of Key West’s favorite sons.
Buffett died September 1 last year. Beginning today and running through September 2, his memory will be celebrated. It is proper that Key West is the place for the “party” as Key West is where he developed his signature “tropical rock” style and laid back persona. All of which helped make him a world renowned musical icon.
Enjoy the weekend! It is loaded with Buffett activity everyday through September 2.
Continuing with my rendition of Buffett’s life, today his musical style.
Buffett’s music combined country, rock, folksy calypso and pop musical with tropical lyrical themes. The sound called “gulf and western” or “tropical rock.”
Buffett called his music “drunken Caribbean rock ‘n roll.” He described it as “pure escapism…..as part of the human condition that you’ve got to have some fun.”
The Washington Post described Buffett’s music as a combination of “tropical languor with country funkiness into what some have called the Key West sound, or Gulf-and-Western.”
The Associated Press once described Buffett’s sound as a “special Gulf Coast blend of country, pop, folk, and rock, topped by Buffett’s swaying voice. Few can mix steelpans, trombones and pedal steel guitar so effectively.”
His theme can best be described as “seaside and booze.”
Tomorrow, Parrotheads.
The touted Kamala Harris interview last night on CNN. She was joined by her V-P partner Tim Walz.
Harris was a winner. No faux pas. If anything, I thought CNN’s Dana Bash was not the great interrogator anticipated. Her questioning lacked depth and significant follow up.
CNN’s format for the show basically sucked. It was disjointed. CNN tried to make it the big deal it was without any fanfare by breaking up its presentation in segments and not following up the segments timely and in proper order. Left the viewer confused.
CNN tried to do a bang up job and instead did a poor one.
Harris was fine. She will have no difficulty with Trump in the debate. May put him to shame.
Walz bothered me. Where he may have verbally misspoken in the past, he should have owned up to the few misstatements as such. It would have ended once and for all the continued questioning of insignificant issues. There are three: Service in war, rank, and the approach he and his wife used in getting her pregnant. Nothing more than lapus linguas. Refer to them as such and move on.
My researching trips me on to things I never knew. Simple things.
Let me share a few with you.
Octopuses have three hearts. Two pump blood to the gills. One pumps it to the rest of the body.
Recipes. Thousands. The oldest? For beer. It dates back to 3,900 B.C. in ancient Sumeria.
This one I question, but it’s out there. The smell of freshly cut grass is a plant distress call, produced by the grass as a defense mechanism.
RFK Jr. thinks chemicals in the environment can make kids gay. He says he will help Trump “pick the people who will be running the government.”
I have been telling you for years RFK Jr. is a whack! Can you imagine him in government helping Trump run the country? Trump is weird enough on his own. He does not need any help.
I close with a bit of Key West history you may or may not know. Certain streets in Key West are named after Key West’s first American owners. Four at one time: John Whitehead, John Simonton, John Fleming and Pardon Greene.
Enjoy your day!
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