Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band continued their 2014 This One’s For You Tour on Wednesday night at the First Niagara Pavilion in Pittsburgh PA.
The set list from the show is now available. A change to the set list included the song “School Boy Heart” last performed on March 10, 2012 in San Diego, CA.
The Post-Gazette has a review of the show: “Buffett’s ‘This One’s For You’ tour is about the fans”
In vintage Buffett fashion, a quarter of the 28 songs he played were covers of artists such as Van Morrison, Grateful Dead and Crosby, Stills & Nash, which he sprinkled in with his own crowd-pleasers like “Cheeseburger in Paradise” and “Come Monday.” No song of his from the past decade made an appearance as he stuck to the classics, closing with the beloved “Margaritaville” before predictably returning for an encore that included the racy “Why Don’t We Get Drunk” played within the more modern “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere.” Throughout the show, the 67-year old entertained, dancing around in his barefeet, cracking jokes and making plenty of Pittsburgh references.
To the fans, Buffett is known simply as “Jimmy” and they casually tell stories about him like a best friend or neighbor. All of the concert-goers are close to him. Close enough even to forgive him when he started a verse of “A Pirate Looks at Forty” with the wrong words and was corrected by the audience, because when Buffett performs, the musical component is just a bonus. The party is what people love. And the fans make the party happen.