Jimmy Buffett: The Key West Years by Tom Corcoran
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Book Reviews of Jimmy Buffett: The Key West Years
Book Review: Great Buffett/Key West travel guide
Summary: 5 Stars
We bought this book on a trip to Key West. It was fun driving around and seeing (even visiting) some of Buffett's early haunts. Without the book, we wouldn't have seen nearly as many. It's not a great 'story' or biography, but it gets a parrothead around Buffet's Key West.Book Review: good guide for parrotheads
Summary: 5 Stars
I wish I had gotten this book before my wife and I went to Key West. It would have made a great guide to visiting some of Jimmy's old haunts. The stories are great. Definitely a Parrothead must have!Book Review: Jimmy Buffett: The Key West Years
Summary: 5 Stars
Great little read... lots of interesting factiods about Jimmy Buffett that would be of interest to any & all Parrotheads.Book Review: Tom Corcoran is the best
Summary: 5 Stars
If anyone can tell a story about Jimmy Buffett,, it is Tom Corcoran. I loved it.
Book Review: Your guide to Margaritaville!
Summary: 4 Stars
Tom Corcoran's book could have been called "The Parrothead's Guide to Key West." If you've ever picked out the line "Went down to Fausto's to get some chocolate milk" from Jimmy Buffett's parodic song "My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, and I Don't Love Jesus" and wondered what it meant, this book is for you. "Jimmy Buffett: The Key West Years" gives us descriptions of 35 of his old Key West haunts, combined with 39 photos (including front/back covers)--many of them taken by Corcoran himself, who as a Chart Room bartender gave Jimmy his first drink as a welcome to Key West. Later, Corcoran would turn photographer and provide the photos for a number of Jimmy's album covers (check your album photo credits!). Corcoran is such an insider that he casually mentions things that will blow away "parrotheads," who may find themselves wishing Corcoran would write a sequel. Every entry will have you recalling lines from Buffet lyrics!
I had the pleasure of interviewing Buffett in his mid-`80s Key West digs for a little magazine called "Clockwatch Review" and I started the first Hemingway Days Writer's Workshop upstairs at the current Margaritaville. I spent ten summers in Key West working the festival and started to feel like a local, but Corcoran's book told me things about Buffett and Key West that I didn't know . . . and gave me plenty of places to look up the next time I'm in town. Most entries give specific addresses, though Corcoran apparently forgot to include precise locations for the Old Anchor Inn and Logan's Lobster House. No matter. It'll give me something to ask old-timers the next time I squander an afternoon at Captain Tony's, The Green Parrot, or Schooner Wharf!