Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band plans to continue following his death at 76 on September 1st from skin cancer.
His last words were, “keep the party going,” and his guitarist Mac McAnally tells Billboard, “The Coral Reefer Band is second family to all of us. We are a family. And Jimmy wants us to continue and we want to continue… There’s ongoing discussions about the best way to do that, the most practical way to do that and how to do it in a way that is worthy of the legacy that we’re part of… I can’t wait until we [figure it out] because we miss being out there, playing his songs to people and feeling that alternating current go back and forth from the stage to the crowd. I don’t know who’s got more energy, them or us.”
The Coral Reefer Band played its last concert with Buffett on May 6th at San Diego’s Snapdragon Stadium. Buffett’s last performance was with McAnally on July 2nd in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
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