The 1990's
1990: A second live album Feeding
Frenzy is released, recorded in
1990: JB does the song "Don't Bug Me" for the Arachnophobia movie soundtrack.
1990: Jimmy sings backing vocals on
Zachary Richard's "Women in the Room."
1991: Jimmy and Jane reconcile and
move back to
1991: A second children's book by
Jimmy Buffett and his daughter Savannah Jane called Trouble
Dolls is published.
1992: Jimmy's second novel Where
Is Joe Merchant? is released and makes
it to #1 on the NY Times fiction bestseller's list
1992: Boats
Beaches Bars & Ballads
is released and becomes one of the best
selling box sets ever for MCA.
1992: Jimmy starts his own record
label (Margaritaville Records) in
1992: JB sings a duet and produces Evangeline's self titled album under the Margaritaville Records label. The duet "Gulf Coast Highway" is eventually covered by Nancy Griffith.
1992: Jimmy Buffett, Gloria Estefan,
"Weird Al" Yankovic, Paul Simon, Crosby Stills and Nash, the Bee Gees
and Ziggy Marley took part in a benefit concert in
1992: A Margaritaville Cafe and
store opens in
1993: Jimmy and Jane move to
1993: Before
The Beach is released containing songs
from Down to Earth and High
Cumberland Jubilee
1993: Jimmy is the executive producer and does three songs for Margaritaville Cafe Late Night Menu including a cover of "Another Saturday Night" and a new song called "Reggae Accident."
1993: Jimmy records the song "Stars Fell on Alabama" for More Songs For Sleepless Nights.
1993: JB's song "Stars on the Water" appears on the soundtrack for the movie The Firm.
1993: Jimmy is the executive
producer on The
Iguanas'
self titled album
1993: Jimmy begins working with Herman
Wouk on a musical
adaptation of Wouk's novel Don't
Stop the Carnival. Herman
Wouk on a musical
adaptation of Wouk's novel Don't
Stop the Carnival.
1994: Jimmy records the song "Mr.
Spaceman"
for the Muppet's collection of songs Kermit
Unpigged.
1994: Jimmy records "Mac
the Knife" with Frank Sinatra (mixed in) which appears on the album Duets
II.
1994: Jimmy has a cameo appearance in the movie Cobb.
1994: Jimmy and Jane Buffett adopt a son Cameron Marley.
1994: Jimmy's father James Delaney Buffett is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease
1994: Fruitcakes
is released
1995: Barometer
Soup is released
1995: Jimmy has a cameo appearance as a pilot in the movie Congo.
1995: Margaritaville
Cafe New Orleans is released with two
songs by Jimmy, "Goodnight Irene"
and "Sea
Cruise."
1995: The
Parakeet Album is released containing
JB songs sung by kids form the
Nov 16, 1995
: Jimmy buys a new plane: 1954 Grumman Albatross
Seaplane HU-16 N928J,
The
Hemisphere Dancer,
60 feet long with an 80ft wingspan.
1996: Jimmy is the executive producer for the soundtrack to the movie Phenomenon.
1996: Jimmy has a part as a cop in the audio play "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas."
1996: A Christmas Album titled Christmas
Island is released by JB and the CRB.
April 1997: The musical "Don't
Stop the Carnival"
opens and has a successful six week run at the Coconut
Grove Playhouse in
1997: Jimmy's mother has a stroke.
1997: Jimmy records "Purple People Eater" with Iko-Iko for the movie Contact.
1997: Jimmy records the song "Trouble
on the Horizon"
for Music
for our Mother Ocean II.
Sept 1997: JB performs at the
Oct 1997: Universal Pictures purchases the film rights for "Where is Joe Merchant?"
Jan 13, 1998
: Re-release of Rancho
Deluxe CD by MGM/Rycodisc
Feb 1998: JB records the song
"
1998: C.
F. Martin & Co. honors Jimmy
Buffett with a signature edition guitar. Only 424 were made originally going for
$3650.00. The significance of the "424" was the address on Fleming
Street in Key West where JB's original Margaritaville Store was located.
1998: Jimmy goes to
1998: JB has the role of a journalist in the HBO Mini-series From the Earth to the Moon
April 28, 1998
: The soundtrack for Don't
Stop the Carnival performed by JB and
the CRB is released. It was certified gold by on
1998: Jimmy co-writes and sings
back up on the song "South American"
on Brian Wilson's Imagination
solo release.
June 9, 1998
: Jimmy's book A
Pirate Looks at Fifty is released. He
becomes the sixth writer to reach the number one spot on both the NY Times
fiction and non-fiction best seller's list (other notables include Ernest
Hemingway and John Steinbeck).
July 1998: A Margaritaville retail
store opens in Charleston,
Sept 1998: Jimmy sells his home in
Oct 1998: JB covers John Glenn's return to space
March 4, 1999
: Radio
Margaritaville debuts with a live show
from the new Margaritaville in
May 18, 1999
: Beach
House on the Moon is released
Aug 10, 1999
: Calaloo
CD is released exclusively at Best Buy stores
Nov 9, 1999
: Buffett
Live: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays
is released
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