{"id":2020452,"date":"2023-09-02T17:23:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jimmy-buffett-the-bard-of-americas-saltwater-cowboys\/"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:26:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:26:40","slug":"jimmy-buffett-the-bard-of-americas-saltwater-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jimmy-buffett-the-bard-of-americas-saltwater-cowboys\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Buffett, America&#8217;s Saltwater Cowboys&#8217; Bard."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjimmy-buffett-the-bard-of-americas-saltwater-cowboys%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2020452&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Remembering Jimmy Buffett<\/h2>\n<p>On my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-legal-team-prepares-for-impending-senate-impeachment-trial\/\" title=\"Trump legal team prepares for impending Senate impeachment trial\">drive home<\/a> from \u200dan overdue stop at the dry cleaners early Friday \u2064evening, I had a random urge to listen to \u200cJimmy Buffett. I cranked \u2062up the volume on \u2062&#8221;Margaritaville&#8221; and \u2063belted \u2062out the chorus, \u200btransported back to\u200b my Florida childhood for a moment, away from the \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jimmy-buffett-the-bard-of-americas-saltwater-cowboys\/\" title=\"Jimmy Buffett, America's Saltwater Cowboys' Bard.\">rush hour traffic heading westbound<\/a> out \u200bof \u2064D.C.\u200b in the first hours of a holiday weekend. &#8220;Cheeseburger in Paradise&#8221; recalled beachside snack shacks, the kind where styrofoam boxes and\u2064 tin foil \u200bserve as plates and\u200c no\u200d one ever bothers to wipe \u200dthe salty fingerprints off the ketchup bottles. And then &#8220;A Pirate Looks \u2064At Forty&#8221;\u2064 came on, \u200dand all\u200d I wanted was to\u200c be on a boat \u2063somewhere, with\u2064 nothing \u200dbut\u2063 blue horizon on every side and salty breeze battering my eyelashes as \u200dwaves crashed \u200dunder\u200b the bow. When\u200d I got\u2063 home, I lamented to my husband about Northern\u200b Virginia&#8217;s lack of those street vendors who will chop\u200b the top off a\u200d coconut with a \u200dmachete for you \u2062and \u200chand you a straw to drink \u2063from\u200b it.<\/p>\n<h3>A Musical \u2063Connection<\/h3>\n<p>The\u200b next morning, I learned the pirate had died sometime in the night. I&#8217;m no music critic, so I won&#8217;t try\u200c to elucidate how Buffett&#8217;s music managed to capture the feeling\u2064 of\u200c bringing \u2062the boat in at sunset to fry up the day&#8217;s\u200b catch and wash it \u2064down with a cold drink. I can only say\u2062 that it does.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1186697358\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9bb0eb91e4f4f735070eb3e5b4ccddf1 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9bb0eb91e4f4f735070eb3e5b4ccddf1\"><\/div>\n<p>My first memory of hearing his songs was as a kid, after a day of diving for scallops in the Gulf \u2062on my uncle&#8217;s \u200bboat with\u2062 my dad&#8217;s side of the family. I was young enough\u200c that I hadn&#8217;t yet realized he and Warren Buffett were two different people. But I have \u200ba mental snapshot of being told that the songs playing\u2062 on the radio were <em>Jimmy<\/em> Buffett&#8217;s, as I\u200c watched \u200cthe shoreline loom ever larger on \u2064the boat\u200b ride\u2063 home.<\/p>\n<p>Now\u200b that I&#8217;m \u200cgrown and\u2062 several states\u200d away, I&#8217;ll sometimes listen to\u2062 his music when I miss \u200dthat view. I&#8217;m \u200bconvinced we\u200d Americans are particularly \u2062stirred by the wide frontier of the ocean \u2014 after\u2063 all, the\u2062 country we know never would have\u2063 existed if the same tug\u2064 hadn&#8217;t burdened\u200c the\u200c hearts of\u2064 seamen centuries ago. Wide open spaces are in \u2064our blood. In \u200dan age where satellites\u200c have left no corner of the globe unexamined,\u2064 when our <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/15\/covid-rules-force-us-to-trade-substance-for-sterility-and-will-change-our-culture-forever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">risk-phobic society wraps everything in\u2062 plastic and plexiglass<\/a>, Jimmy\u200d spoke\u2064 for those \u2062who wondered if\u200b we&#8217;d arrived &#8220;two hundred years too late.&#8221; \u2063When he would &#8220;haul the sheet in as we ride on the \u2062wind that our forefathers harnessed \u2064before us,&#8221; he connected you to them \u2064too.<\/p>\n<p>After \u2063all, before there were\u200d cowboys,\u2063 there were sailors, and the ballads and ghost stories and romance were theirs.<\/p>\n<p>But as fast as\u2063 Buffett could make \u200dyou\u200d feel\u2063 that sweet,\u2063 touching \u200ckind of lonely,\u2063 he could \u200cwhisk you back to memories \u200dof cracking open beers\u200d and bottles of Mexican Coke \u200cand chowing down on the freshest fish of your life\u200d with \u200byour \u2064favorite\u200c people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b8b6e6eff342e4d102f19ee3e051d2d3 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b8b6e6eff342e4d102f19ee3e051d2d3\"><\/div>\n<p>He immortalized, just as well as the feeling of setting out on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/humans-are-smart-crabs-are-dumb\/\" title=\"Humans Are Smart. Crabs Are Dumb\">open ocean<\/a>, the\u200d feeling of coming back to your home port \u2014 maybe\u2062 after a\u200d long voyage, maybe just after an afternoon fishing trip. He could, in the words he used to describe what boats could do, both \u200d&#8221;take you around the world&#8221; and &#8220;bring you back \u2062home.&#8221; When he named \u2064a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-era-of-body-positivity-queens-fat-bottom-girls-gets-cancelled\/\" title=\"Queen's iconic song \"Fat Bottom Girls\" faces cancellation amidst the era of 'body positivity'.\">greatest hits album<\/a> &#8220;Songs You \u200dKnow By Heart,&#8221; no one could accuse\u2064 him of being hyperbolic.<\/p>\n<p>RIP, Jimmy. Now \u2062I&#8217;m\u200b off to &#8220;head \u2062uptown&#8221; and raise\u200d a glass to you.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1e17d02123427f8b6d48a03bdfaa390e fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1e17d02123427f8b6d48a03bdfaa390e\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way home from the dry cleaners, I suddenly felt like listening to Jimmy Buffett. Blasting &#8220;Margaritaville,&#8221; I sang along, momentarily transported to my Florida childhood. 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