The singer-entrepreneur created a world that many wanted to live in forever.
Buffett’s time in Key West created the fodder and the spirit for a vast body of work.When I heard on Saturday that Jimmy Buffett had died, I wrote a condolence e-mail to his longtime friend Thomas McGuane, the novelist.
In the film, McGuane says that he hates old photographs and generally disdains nostalgia. “All That Is Sacred,” just a half hour long, is a taut refutation, or at least a balm to anyone who might disagree. The film relies on footage from an older documentary called “Tarpon,” made in 1973, by Guy de la Valdene and Christian Odasso, but for many years seen by pretty much no one. It chronicled the Key West scene, focussing more on the fishing than the writing.
Buffett did the soundtrack to “Tarpon.” He was more or less a nobody at the time, a Nashville washout playing for beers in the local bars. But he was also about to release “A White Sport and a Pink Crustacean,” his second album , and the one that got him going. Or that got him enough money, anyway, to buy a boat. He slowly built an audience, on the basis of the songs and his ease and charm at performing them.
On Sunday night, down in Daytona Beach, at Latitude Margaritaville, the residents held a vigil outside the house Buffett owned there. They’d made a little shrine, with a surfboard, a straw hat, flowers, a bottle of premixed margarita, and a Jimmy Buffett for President T-shirt. I reached out via text to two guys who’d schooled me in“He created a world that the everyday guy could escape to, with his music,” McChesney replied. “For the people here it has become a reality.
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