{"id":807876,"date":"2020-05-28T10:55:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T16:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1006379"},"modified":"2020-05-28T10:55:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T16:55:22","slug":"rs-interview-special-edition-with-jimmy-buffett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/rs-interview-special-edition-with-jimmy-buffett\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018RS Interview: Special Edition\u2019 With Jimmy Buffett"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/buffett-thum-clean.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI came to Key West [Florida] with a little bit of luggage and a lot of songs,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-buffett\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-buffett\" data-tag=\"jimmy-buffett\">Jimmy Buffett<\/a>, who talks about his entire career, including its earliest days, in a wide-ranging conversation with senior writer Brian Hiatt on the latest episode of the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rolling-stone-interview-special-edition\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rolling-stone-interview-special-edition\" data-tag=\"rolling-stone-interview-special-edition\">Rolling Stone Interview: Special Edition<\/a><\/em> video series. Buffett is riding out lockdown in a \u201clittle trailer\u201d he owns on the coast of California, in Malibu, a situation he compares to the days when he\u2019d live on a boat for months on end.<\/p>\n<p>During the exclusive interview, Buffett breaks down his new album, <em>Life on the Flip Side<\/em>, explaining that he intended it to reflect the spirit of his beloved first three LPs. \u201cI went back and listened to those a lot,\u201d he says. He recalls hanging out with Hunter S. Thompson and Bob Dylan; muses on his business success; recalls his short-lived career as a music journalist; discusses the origins of classic songs, including \u201cMargaritaville,\u201d \u201cCome Monday,\u201d \u201cDeath of an Unpopular Poet\u201d; and explains how he realized it was time to cut back on his partying around the time he turned 40.<\/p>\n<p>Buffett also discusses why he\u2019s optimistic that vaccines, testing, and other medical breakthroughs will allow him to be in front of a big crowd of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/qa-jimmy-buffett-2-171062\/\">Parrotheads<\/a> again. \u201cI\u2019m waiting for that day,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what I tell people \u2014 whenever it is, and wherever it is, it\u2019s gonna be a hell of a show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest installment of&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s latest new video series,&nbsp;<em><a id=\"auto-tag_rs-interview-special-edition\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rs-interview-special-edition\/\" data-tag=\"rs-interview-special-edition\">RS Interview: Special Edition<\/a>,<\/em> featuring in-depth conversations with notable figures in music, entertainment, and politics. Episodes premiere every Thursday afternoon on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RollingStone\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>Rolling Stone\u2019<\/em>s YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jimmy-buffett-new-album-interview-video-1006379\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI came to Key West [Florida] with a little bit of luggage and a lot of songs,\u201d says Jimmy Buffett, who talks about his entire career, including its earliest days, in a wide-ranging conversation with senior writer Brian Hiatt on the latest episode of the Rolling Stone Interview: Special Edition video series. Buffett is riding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 01:42:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}