Jimmy Buffett

December, 1974

We first saw Jimmy Buffett a few years ago in Key West. He had just moved there from Nashville and was playing for beers in a Duval Street bar, having a very good time of it. Green Label foam laced his walrus mustache, there was an illegal gleam in his eye and he was tenderly crooning a last-call lament--"Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?"--which last year became the B side of his first hit single, The Great Filling Station Holdup, and has since been worn to raw grooves on every...