From the Alabama Press-Register: “Jimmy Buffett performs surprise concert in Gulf Shores, drawing over 2,000 people”
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At about 6:30 p.m. Lucy Buffett delivered some bad news: Bluesman Sonny Landreth, who was supposed to play at her waterfront restaurant, Lulu’s at Homeport Marina, had had to cancel his scheduled show. But, working a family connection, she had procured a substitute performer: her brother and south Alabama favorite son Jimmy Buffett.
Buffet and his seven-piece Coral Reefer Band then launched into a two-hour set before a very stoked crowd that grew through word of mouth to well over 2,000.
Though he played unannounced in 2000 at his mother’s birthday party at the old Lulu’s on Weeks Bay, tonight was his first performance at his sister’s much larger location in Gulf Shores.
Buffett, who wore a T-shirt on which he had scrawled “We’ll be back Sunday,” was ferried to the show via the Intracoastal Waterway by a boat that moored near the outdoor stage.
“It was a hard secret to keep,” Fisher said. “Jimmy wanted to play as soon as the other show was canceled.”