Bill Flanagan offers an appreciation of the 'Margaritaville' singer-songwriter, a friend for whom everything was an adventure, and whose positive life force was directed towards giving his music fans a two-hour vacation.
, was something of a workaholic. Our contributor Bill Flanagan has an appreciation:
He was a pilot and a sailor, a traveling man who felt at home in a fleabag in Timbuktu or a five-star hotel in Paris. I don't think I ever knew anyone with more positive life force. Even when he was in treatment for cancer this last year, Jimmy would come out of the hospital and, instead of resting like he was supposed to, he would jump on one of his planes and fly across the country to play a show. He got something out of his audience that was better than medicine.He started out playing bars in New Orleans and working as a journalist. In his songwriting he combined those two vocations.
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