Ryan White, the author of Springsteen: Album by Album and Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way, has twice been named one of the top feature writers in the country by the Society for Features Journalism. He spent sixteen years at The Oregonian covering sports, music, and culture. He's written for The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, The Sacramento Bee, The Dallas Morning News, and Portland Monthly. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
"Finally--a full-length Jimmy Buffett bio that's accurate and
entertaining. Ryan White captures a life of creativity, of
strumming songs, taking care of business, and of owning the stage
while dancing to the bank. Great writing makes for great reading,
and this book outshines all earlier looks at Buffett's career and
lifestyle. White has interviewed dozens of the man's colleagues,
influences and guides, and asked all the right questions. Now we
get to enjoy new insights and correct info right down to the
sunburn. Thank goodness for Ryan White. He delivers a fine tale
and, like Buffett, super entertainment." - Tom Corcoran, author of
Crime Almost Pays and The Quick Adios (Times Six).
"A buoyant new Jimmy Buffett biography sings. . . . [White
interviewed] dozens of Buffett's fellow Key West, Florida,
barflies, record producers, bandmates, friends, and business
associates, and the portrait that emerges is affectionate and
admiring but devoid of Parrot Head fawning--the proper key for such
a bio. It helps that White's prose bears a music of its own,
vividly evoking Buffett's formative journey from Mobile, Alabama,
to New Orleans, to Nashville, and then to Key West." --GARDEN &
GUN
"A gifted storyteller with a beat reporter's nose for hidden
details, Ryan White has crafted a definitive portrait of one of
America's most potent cultural icons. And yet this is so much more
than an account of sandy-footed slacker king Jimmy Buffett. It's
also a peek into the yearning heart of overworked Americans
searching for their own shaker of salt and helping drive the
fantasy that turned Buffett's tequila-stunned 1977 smash
'Margaritaville' into the keystone of a multi-billion dollar
leisure industry." -Peter Ames Carlin, New York Times bestselling
author of Bruce
"Ryan White has written a highly entertaining and very informative
book about Jimmy Buffett; one that manages to go well beyond the
mythology and legends while still giving them their just place in
the grand design. An excellent read."
- Patterson Hood, Drive-By Truckers
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