The Houston Press has a review of last nights show: “Jimmy Buffett At Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion” and a slideshow of photos.
Blowing through the jasmine of our mind, Aftermath once got it in our head somehow that Jimmy Buffett wrote “Margaritaville” not about some low-rent Gulf-shores resort but our own state capital of Austin. We were hoping he might shed some light on the beach-bum anthem’s mysterious origins at our first-ever trip inside Parrothead Nation Thursday night at The Woodlands.
He didn’t, only introducing “Margaritaville” as a “Cinco de Mayo surprise” (heh), but he clued in a lot of the younger Parrotheads on hand about their own potential origins before “Come Monday.” First calling it his “Date Night” song, he immediately Autocorrected to “a little sneakin’ to the back of the lawn and makin’ out kind of song.”
By “makin’ out,” he meant the kind of makin’ out people do when they’re nekkid: “This could be part of your heritage.”
As lighthearted as he was laid-back, the 64-year-old Buffett also brought up his tumble offstage back in January several times. After a typically sunny cover of “Brown Eyed Girl,” he said. “I had this little problem in Australia a couple of months ago. What can I say? Shit happens.”