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This is your WBZ book Club.
I'm Jordan, and with the recent passing

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of music legend Jimmy Buffett, I
thought i'd recommend a book about the man,

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called Jimmy Buffett, A Good Life
All the Way by Evan White.

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It lays out a life story of
Jimmy Buffett born in nineteen forty six,

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a man who not only had hit
records, most notably Margaritaville, but it's

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the story of a guy who capitalized
on the success of that one hit record

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and created his own culture niche with
adoring fans known as parrot heads. Perhaps

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you're one of them. Jimmy got
his start in the South and the Mississippi

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and Alabama markets and clawed his way
a bit through the business in places like

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New Orleans, Nashville, and Key
West. He did so with non threatening

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music, and he was able to
turn that suggested lifestyle into one super successful

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corporate brand. It's an uplifting biography. Jimmy Buffett A Good Life All the

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Way by Ryan White. The Book
Club w Z, Boston's news radio