Jimmy Buffett

I woke up this morning with the news that Jimmy Buffett had passed away at age 76.  I "discovered" his music in spring of my senior year in high school.  Actually Twink had heard him on the local album rock station and kept singing the lyrics to one of his song.  I finally heard the song and thought it was so good.  The song was Door Number 3 about the old tv show Let's Make a Deal.  A couple weeks later Twink heard another of his songs and once I heard it I was hooked.  That song was Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw and to an immature 18 year old it was awesome.
I went over to a record store in carbondale and bought a couple of his albums.  I discovered that he had a lot better songs than the two he'd heard such as A Pirate Looks at 40 and Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season among others.  After buying the other two albums that the store had I found out I'd actually heard one of his songs before.  Come Monday was on the charts earlier in my high school time.
He hit big shortly after with Margaritaville and then Cheeseburger in Paradise and an empire was born.  Almost 50 years later I'm still a fan and still prefer his early music that he said was Gulf and Western.  While I've never considered myself a Parrothead I do consider myself a grumpy old Parrothead.