Once the current season of Strictly Come Dancing ends, fans have a one-off Christmas spectacular to look forward to.
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A.D. Amorosi Across 30 studio albums since 1970, Buffett fueled his scenic songs’ tropical, country-ish lilt with a smart, conversational brand of daylight-noir storytelling.
With the release of “Equal Strain on All Parts,” his last studio album completed before his death in September of this year, it can be said that Buffett continued to write and sing from the same generous heart and curious mind he had in 1970, and with the same balance of tartness, holy goofiness and astute, picturesque, character-driven narratives that made his finest work ring true. From its title track’s ruminations on his grandfather’s wise words to an album-closing cover of Bob Dylan’s “Mozambique” (featuring Emmylou Harris), with its “goodbye to sand and sea,” Buffett’s last studio album manages to be deeply elegiac, gorgeously melancholy, and weirdly, wordily sunny all at the same time.
Fans couldn’t have hoped for a more magnificent or fulsome finale. Featuring Buffett’s longtime instrumentalists of renown, the Coral Reefer Band, and guests such as Harris, Angelique Kidjo and Paul McCartney, the singer’s wise and wily party commences with “University of Bourbon Street,” featuring the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
As you’d expect, a Crescent City vibe is present, and rollicking, with credit given to Orleans parish’s usual suspects, the Neville Brothers, Tennessee Williams and Jean Lafitte. Yet, to make it uniquely Buffett-esque, its author throws in this musical stanza: “I sang on a paddlewheel boat Floated down the Mississippi Helped build a Mardi Gras float And smoked a joint with a beautiful hippie”
If Buffett could be inspired by his grandfather’s advice about napping as a necessary key to life (“slipping away to God knows where”) on his
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died in September, and several of his favorite artists honored him with a performance at the CMA Awards on Wednesday.Ahead of the tribute, Mac McAnally, a guitarist and longtime member of Buffett’s Coral Reefer band, spoke to Fox News Digital about the late singer-songwriter, even sharing some of his final words.“I saw him 24 hours before he was gone,” McAnally said, “and he was smiling wider than his head and saying, ‘What a hell of a ride, keep it going, keep the party going,’ and it’s our intention to do that.”“I didn’t know what to say,” he admitted of that final visit with Buffett, “and I didn’t know if I could talk without crying, but I picked up a guitar and played, and we told a couple of tour stories and laughed.
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