Cathy TUCKER

Great writing.

John Sutton

Nicely done. He was a great entertainer and a wonderful Dad. When his daughter attended DSOTA he took time to drop in to jam with the students on occasion. What a life experience for those lucky kids. Jimmy made the world a better place. Such a happy, talented, gifted musician, businessman and Dad. What a legacy. What a man.

Reed Sprague

Jimmy Buffett was a class act all the way, a wonderful person and a great entertainer. You did good by him, Lee. Great blog post.

Duane E Barrett

Like so many of us Buffett fans that are now in our 60’s, I started listening to Jimmy while I was in high school back in the late ’70’s. One of my best memories of seeing him was a 2-day back-to-back gig he played at Carowinds (half the park is in NC, half is in SC) while I was still in HS. I was with 4-5 other guys, all of them came from money but I of course didn’t. We stayed at the Rennaissance hotel in downtown Charlotte, which was where he and the Coral Reefers ended up staying that weekend.

We took turns Friday afternoon sitting on the front row of the concert venue, half of us would go and ride the rides, etc., and then we’d trade off. Saw him from the 2nd row on Friday night, which was awesome. We played/partied pretty hard that night and got up Saturday morning to go down to the complimentary breakfast buffet (no pun intended). I forgot something back up in the room, so left the rest of the group and got on an elevator to go back up to the room. Jimmy gets on the elevator; it’s me, him and some little geeky looking guy (definitely not a hard-core fan). Jimmy is wearing the same clothes he played in the night before. I say something like, we were going to try to come find your room last night, had some great “stuff” you might have enjoyed. He said, wish you would have, we were up all night. He gets ready to get off the elevator and I say “man, my friends aren’t going to believe this happened”. He looks me in the eye, and says “tell them it did, and it was real”.

Here’s the funny thing — I’m back down in the lobby, and the little geeky guy comes up to me and asks if that was Buffett. I said if you have to ask, you really don’t need to know.

Watched him again that Saturday night from the 1st/2nd row at Carowinds, and he nods to me/us a couple of times.

So many of us will miss him, his music, and the adventures we’ve lived vicariously through his music.

Lee, thanks for composing this tribute to such a great storyteller. When the time is right, I’ll show you what it’s like to party when you want to stay up all night and say goodbye to a true legend.

JB-RIP

Cheri

Hi, Lee. That is an amazing Memorial to Jimmy Buffett! You Sir are a gifted storyteller yourself!

Peg Spellman

Lovely tribute to a man who encouraged people to live with joy and enthusiasm. Thanks, Lee!