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Q&A: Jimmy Buffett

Mark Kemp, Rolling Stone, 22 August 1996

IT'S BEEN nearly 20 years since Jimmy Buffett bided his time wasting away in Margaritaville. Today, rock's romantic poet-pirate has become a virtual one-man theme park. Buffett's concert tours are consistent top-grossers, and his cult following, dubbed Parrotheads, is so large that it rocketed the singer's recent album, Banana Wind, to No. 4 on the chart.

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