The Tennessean has a nice article on the taping of the CMT Crossroads show: “Jimmy Buffett passes tiki torch to Zac Brown“. The CMT Crossroads episode airs at 9 p.m. Central on Friday, March 19.
Jimmy Buffett had this reaction when he saw the Zac Brown Band in concert: “He reminds me of what I was doing 25 years ago and it’s nice to see that passed on.”
No one’s sound is completely his own, Buffett said on Wednesday night in Franklin during a taping of CMT’s genre-mixing performance series Crossroads; Buffett’s own work was informed by Harry Belafonte, for one.
So in that spirit, during the taping, Buffett announced the passing of the “tiki torch.”
“Here’s the torch, man,” Buffett said, motioning to Brown and then adding, “I’m not going anywhere.”