Editing Jimmy Buffett (section)

===Musical style===
[[File:Mac mcanally and jimmy buffett.jpg|thumb|Buffett ''(right)'' performing in 2009]]
Buffett's music combined country, [[rock music|rock]], [[American folk music|folk]], [[Calypso music|calypso]], and [[pop music]] with coastal as well as tropical lyrical themes for a sound sometimes called "gulf and western," "gulf rock," or [[tropical rock]].<ref name=insideme/>

Buffett called his music "drunken Caribbean rock 'n' roll".<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/jimmy-buffetts-songs-you-knew-by-heart/PRDX5CLFGZHXFOMPXZ5GUZYFGE/ | title=Jimmy Buffett's songs you knew by heart | work=[[KIRO-TV]] | date=September 2, 2023}}</ref>

<blockquote>"It's pure escapism is all it is...I'm not the first one to do it, nor shall I probably be the last. But I think it's really a part of the human condition that you've got to have some fun. You've got to get away from whatever you do to make a living or other parts of life that stress you out. I try to make it at least 50/50 fun to work and so far it's worked out." -Jimmy Buffett<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://abc7.com/jimmy-buffett-dead-passed-away-death/13728459/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230903013615/https://abc7.com/jimmy-buffett-dead-passed-away-death/13728459/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=September 3, 2023 | title=Jimmy Buffett, 'Margaritaville' singer, dead at 76 | work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] | date=September 2, 2023 }}</ref></blockquote>

In 1989, a music critic in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' described Buffett's music as a combination of "tropical languor with country funkiness into what some [have] called the Key West sound, or Gulf-and-western."<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249057487 |title=Lookin' for Margaritaville: Place and Imagination in Jimmy Buffett's Songs. | journal=Journal of Cultural Geography |date=March 1997 |volume=16 |page=99 | doi=10.1080/08873639709478339 |last1=Bowen |first1=Dawn S. |issue=2}}</ref> The name "Gulf-and-western" derives from elements in Buffett's early music including musical influence from [[country music|country]], along with lyrical themes from the coast of the [[Gulf of Mexico]]. It is a play on the form of "Country & Western" and [[Gulf+Western]] is the former parent company of [[Paramount Pictures]].

In 2020, The [[Associated Press]] described Buffett's sound as a "special [[Gulf Coast of the United States|Gulf Coast]] blend of country, [[pop music|pop]], [[American folk music|folk]] and rock, topped by Buffett's swaying voice. Few can mix [[steelpan]]s, [[trombone]]s and [[pedal steel guitar]] so effortlessly."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://apnews.com/article/956239a162a54c8b3b6ce475f0cc3ce7 | title=Review: Jimmy Buffett brings sunshine into our darkness | work=[[Associated Press News]] | last=Kennedy | first=Mark | date=May 26, 2020}}</ref>