{"id":117485,"date":"2024-04-11T12:02:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T12:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/11\/ahead-of-all-star-tribute-concert-sheryl-crow-remembers-jimmy-buffett-as-a-great-man\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T12:02:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T12:02:32","slug":"ahead-of-all-star-tribute-concert-sheryl-crow-remembers-jimmy-buffett-as-a-great-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/11\/ahead-of-all-star-tribute-concert-sheryl-crow-remembers-jimmy-buffett-as-a-great-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of all-star tribute concert, Sheryl Crow remembers Jimmy Buffett as a &#8220;great man&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-10\/Getty_JimmyBuffett_031124.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Tim Mosenfelder\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Sheryl Crow<\/strong> is just one of the big names performing at <em>Keep The Party Going: A Tribute to <strong>Jimmy Buffett<\/strong>,<\/em> a concert in honor of the late singer taking place April 11 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodbowl.com\/events\/performances\/3231\/2024-04-11\/keep-the-party-going-a-tribute-to-jimmy-buffett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>at the Hollywood Bowl<\/strong><\/a>. <strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong>,<strong> Bruce Springsteen<\/strong>,<strong> Jon Bon Jovi<\/strong>, the<strong> Eagles <\/strong>and<strong> Jackson Browne<\/strong> are also on the bill. Sheryl says she and Buffett met even before she was famous: He hired her to sing backup vocals on a project after her two-year stint on the road singing backing vocals for the King of Pop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was blessed enough to get to spend some really good quality time with him,&#8221; she tells ABC Audio. &#8220;Actually, it&#8217;s interesting \u2014 he was my first recording session after I came home from the <strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong> tour, and I flew down because the band I used to sing with in St. Louis became [Buffett&#8217;s]<strong> Coral Reefer <\/strong>[<strong>Band<\/strong>] \u2014 and that was in 1989.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sheryl says she loved Buffett because of the way he approached his career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He emulates exactly how I wish I could be, which is just so in the joyful moment of making music,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Y&#8217;know, sometimes we get so in our analytical head and decide if something is good or bad, or if we&#8217;ve delivered\u00a0&#8230; and he was not that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was somebody who was there for the fans, and loved what he did and was just a great man.&#8221;<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Other artists on the bill include <strong>Jack Johnson<\/strong>, country stars<strong> Kenny Chesney<\/strong>,<strong> Eric Church<\/strong> and<strong> Zac Brown<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong> Pitbull<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Mosenfelder\/Getty Images Sheryl Crow is just one of the big names performing at Keep The Party Going: A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett, a concert in honor of the late singer taking place April 11 at the Hollywood Bowl. Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, the Eagles and Jackson<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/11\/ahead-of-all-star-tribute-concert-sheryl-crow-remembers-jimmy-buffett-as-a-great-man\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}