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Buffett Backstories: The Pirate Edition
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Even better than the original edition that received hundreds of reviews and a 4.7 star rating!
Phil Clark was immortalized in song by Jimmy Buffett, but "A Pirate Looks at Forty" belies his privileged past. This new edition of Buffett Backstories features a 9,000-word chapter on the life and times of Phillips Clark, providing a fascinating glimpse into his reinvention as a pirate of the Caribbean. Author Scott Atwell also adds new backstories for three classic Buffett Life Is Just a Tire Swing, Pascagoula Run and Johnny’s Rhum.
Former Buffett tour manager Bob “Lipbalm” Liberman provides the foreword, and the new song additions round out a list of fifty backstories that include Railroad Lady, I Have Found Me a Home, Death of an Unpopular Poet, Cuban Crime of Passion, He Went to Paris, Grapefruit Juicy Fruit, Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Ballard of Spider John, Why Don’t We Get Drunk, Pencil Thin Mustache, Come Monday, The Wino and I Know, God’s Own Drunk, A Pirate Looks at Forty, Nautical Wheelers, Tin Cup Chalice, Captain and the Kid, Something So Feminine About a Mandolin, Woman Going Crazy on Caroline Street, My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, Margaritaville, In the Shelter, Miss You So Badly, Son of a Son of a Sailor, Cheeseburger in Paradise, Coast of Marseilles, Volcano, Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants, Fins, It’s My Job, Little Miss Magic, Growing Older But Not Up, One Particular Harbor, Twelve Volt Man, Last Mango in Paris, Gypsies in the Palace, If the Phone Doesn’t Ring, When the Coast is Clear, That’s What Living is to Me, Changing Channels, Love in the Library, Everybody’s Got a Cousin in Miami, The Night I Painted the Sky, Jamaica Mistaica, It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere, Bubbles Up.
Even better than the original edition that received hundreds of reviews and a 4.7 star rating!
Phil Clark was immortalized in song by Jimmy Buffett, but "A Pirate Looks at Forty" belies his privileged past. This new edition of Buffett Backstories features a 9,000-word chapter on the life and times of Phillips Clark, providing a fascinating glimpse into his reinvention as a pirate of the Caribbean. Author Scott Atwell also adds new backstories for three classic Buffett Life Is Just a Tire Swing, Pascagoula Run and Johnny’s Rhum.
Former Buffett tour manager Bob “Lipbalm” Liberman provides the foreword, and the new song additions round out a list of fifty backstories that include Railroad Lady, I Have Found Me a Home, Death of an Unpopular Poet, Cuban Crime of Passion, He Went to Paris, Grapefruit Juicy Fruit, Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Ballard of Spider John, Why Don’t We Get Drunk, Pencil Thin Mustache, Come Monday, The Wino and I Know, God’s Own Drunk, A Pirate Looks at Forty, Nautical Wheelers, Tin Cup Chalice, Captain and the Kid, Something So Feminine About a Mandolin, Woman Going Crazy on Caroline Street, My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, Margaritaville, In the Shelter, Miss You So Badly, Son of a Son of a Sailor, Cheeseburger in Paradise, Coast of Marseilles, Volcano, Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants, Fins, It’s My Job, Little Miss Magic, Growing Older But Not Up, One Particular Harbor, Twelve Volt Man, Last Mango in Paris, Gypsies in the Palace, If the Phone Doesn’t Ring, When the Coast is Clear, That’s What Living is to Me, Changing Channels, Love in the Library, Everybody’s Got a Cousin in Miami, The Night I Painted the Sky, Jamaica Mistaica, It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere, Bubbles Up.
232 pages, Paperback
Published July 18, 2025
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September 8, 2025
If you are a Parrothead, or even just a general fan of Jimmy Buffett, you’ll enjoy this book. Tells the history & stories behind some of his songs. Very interesting & quick read
January 31, 2026
Great book about all the back stories. A lot of stories everyone knows and a few that we all had no clue about!
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