This is JB's official video for the song "Bama Breeze" off of his new album. This video put a tear in my eye...and only those of us who understand know why.
You’ve moved on to much nicer beaches, Jimmy. But we’ll keep the booze in the blender down here and keep your spirit alive through songs like these. Thank you for everything!
Most of us have some sort of “bama breeze” type place in our lives. So many relatable things in the song. What is mentioned in the song touches us on a deeper level and puts us in a mindset we can recall. Brings a little tear to the eye.
In the 80s in rock hill, sc it was glory days. Great house band, great days, great memories. Just like the song, ''good GOD, I feel at home down there."
About the FloraBama, but made at the remains of the Firedog Saloon in Bay St Louis, MS after Hurricane Katrina. It is 4 years later and we are still recovering from that storm...
This was shot in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina and my church was there cleaning up and as a treat they took us to the site and let us watch them shoot some of it. It was amazing.
That was the old Firedog Saloon. It used to be one of our favorite places before Katrina. They never built it back. There is a parking lot there now. We live about six blocks from there. But, there are a lot of new bar/grill/restaurants there now.
@@ralphholiman7401 BSL is not the same, remember the Good Life??? I will take the before katrina BSL, I used to work camp Stanislaus those hypocrite caltholic bastards
I grew up in Gulf Shores, Alabama, and this song hits the nail on the head on exactly what it was like growing up down there, especially pre-ivan, gives me chills every time i hear it.!
I’m a long ago veteran of Gulf Shores too (1965-05). Man has that place changed! I’d have to say Frederic, in 1979, was a major turning point. That’s when the real commercial development, high rise condos etc, started. Sure miss our little fishing village with one gas station, 3 restaurants, and a semi functional draw bridge that could leave you stranded on the island.
@@tommathews3964 Yessir. I am a veteran of Gulf Shores too. Remember when you could pull you car off to the side of the road on the main road and go jump in the gulf. There was a Holiday inn and few gas stations. Most residents were fishermen or oil workers. I remember the old draw bridge just to the west of hwy 59 that would handle all 50 cars that would pass over in a day. After Hurricane Frederick I saw the changes happening to our secret paradise. I have been to beaches all over the world but we still go to Gulf Shores every year and as long as I'm alive I will take it over any beaches I've ever seen. We still go down and stay at Ft Morgan rd where although it has changed it really hasn't. The small fishing houses have now become 6 bedroom mansions but its still the secluded, off the beaten path place that I remember from my youth.
I lived on the gulf coast for 5 years and it was amazing. People from the upper states ask "How do you live with gators and hurricanes?" It's the price you pay for living in the greatest place in the greatest country on earth. It was a small price. I miss Naples-Fort Myers like someone else misses their family. It was paradise.
Unfortunately the new generation has turned it all to shite my friend. I left when the wannabe gangsters started rapping and shooting and nothing even felt the same anymore. If you ain't heard of the Island Boys then you're a lucky duck! 😂❤ but I'll raise a beer for you and me and Ole Jimbo and what it used to be like. My cousin in his younger days is even in this very video!! ❤
He just dedicated it to all the little dive bars along the coast he grew up playing in from Texas to the Keys. Now they're just about gone. It's all casinos and high rise condo developments. Not like it was even in the 80's much less the 70's when he was coming up.
This song brings it all back. Left home in shorts and tshirt, with a guitar, $2 and 3 pair of underwear. Rode my thumb to Pass-A-Grille Beach, FLA in 1971. Lived on the beach for a while then with the Crazy Girls. Somehow drank for free and played air hockey all day in Shadracks on 8th Avenue. Got a house across from the Don CeSar and Hubbards Pier. Did my share of smugglin. And then this guy from Key West way comes along and puts it all to music. Ah The Stories We Could Tell. Thanks Jimmy
JBs music is not a music to lke or dislike, its a lifestyle to either like or dislike. If you didnt grow up on the beach you just wouldnt understand really. Especially the Gulf Coast beaches which are the prettiest in the US in my opinion and theyre very laid back beaches to say the least. The Keys are a lot like the Gulf Coast really as its very laid back too. I just achieved my dream of buying a place in the Keys this past month and I am now living in Islamorada!
Jimmy wrote this song as a tribute to all of the local beach bars and dives that were destroyed in the tragic hurricane seasons of 2004-05. The video was shot in the ruins of the Firedog Saloon right off South Beach Blvd in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi. This area was one of the worst hit during Katrina and the people of the Mississippi still need our help to restore the infrastructure and get the ball rolling to rebuild better and stronger than before.
Might be the same reason it brings a tear to my eye...I recall that as the Firedog Saloon and had many a good time there with my husband who is now also gone forever.
it doesnt matter what Jimmy does... everything that comes from his music touches every one of us in some way .... I used his music alot when i was in Afghanistan...... brings you back to "that state of mind"...
As a veteran, I have spent a lot of time in some great towns by the Gulf from Tampa Fla. to Brownsville Tx. I even lived in Galveston for years. There is no other place like the Gulf coast! The people, the food, the ease of living in paradise...thats where I want to be! Ive seen many great coastal bars and clubs disappear from the earth after our hurricanes and storms, but somehow...they get rebuilt. It is heartbreaking to see something around so long and then its gone. Thats how we feel after the storms. We call it a small price you have to be willing to pay to live in paradise. This song takes me back! Fins up!!!
Pure Excellent! This artist has been able to do what very few have done, cross many lines of music styles. Hes heard on classic rock, easy listening, oldies, country, and on and on. And his music is about real life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I grew up in Gulf Shores Alabama, and this song pretty much sums up what it was like growing up on Alabama's beautiful Gulf Coast...this song always gives me chills...love it!
FYR...this song was written and the video produced to raise funds for Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina devastated the coast. No, New Orleans wasn't the only area affected by Katrina, it was the squeaky wheel as other poorer states like Mississippi suffered in silence, wiped out in catastrophic proportion. To all the sheeple trying to spread the hate on this board, God help you out of your darkness. Long live Jimmy Buffet and the blissful state of mind his music puts a b'zillion folks on the planet in. Peace.
Spent summers down there. Pensacola, Gulf Shores, Destin, Panama City all over really. As for the latter I hear The Strip is gone now. 80's growing up that was the place to be. For a while I lived in Pearl River after the storm. Seems outside of NOLA nobody cared but also outside of the city was another mentality. You can still see traces of the storm 10 years later but also see people who put their heads down, got through it and rebuilt. There was a bar in Slidell that got destroyed in the storm, rebuilt, burned down just before reopening and rebuilt again. Southside I wanna say. Real easy to spend a Sunday there drinking.
When I first heard this song I was at Patrick AF Base for training. I fell in love with it and did get a little sentimental and did a little research. I learned why it was so important to the local people as well as Jimmy Buffett. One day I would like to go down to the gulf coast and see some of this wonderful watering hole. FINS UP!!!!
The place they filmed it at, the old Firedog Saloon in Bay Saint Louis, MS, is gone. But, the FloraBama, which is probably the place the song was based on, is still there. Although it has taken a beating or two from hurricanes over the years. We used to go the FloraBama when it was just a shack on the beach back in the early 80's. It's so big now, I don't even know where the old part actually was.
The Fire Dog, where this video is filmed, is in Bay St. Louis, MS. It was across the street from the beach and was a great place to hangout before that damn storm. Just up the road from it on the beach was a dive called The Good Life or as we called it the "low life". It had a downstairs open air bar that opened right out onto the beach and was about 20 yards from the water. Good times, good times. Thats what this song is about, Good Times.
god bless you for your tour and sacrifice... I am from Canada and want you to know that we Canadians support ALL the troop over there... god bless, and thank you for fighting for my freedom.
Seeing Jimmy live is one thing every person should be able to experience at least once before they die. A Buffett concert is like no where else on earth, for a few short hours, all the world seems right!
Makes me wanna move back down south and start a bar on the beach and call it the "Bama Breeze"... Don't know what ever possessed me to make me leave Bama. I was born and raised in the south and spent many-a-day/night on those beaches and miss em. Never heard that song till tonight and it took me back (as allota Jim's songs do).. Thanks Jimmy, say hi to Lulu for me.
My mom loved JB; I've heard his music all my life. A few yrs ago I wrote to ask for his autograph for my mother's b-day, explaining how much she enjoyed his music & him. The day prior to her b/day, an photo came in her mail w/personalized happy b-day & a little note about my request. I can't recall the last time my mom cried out of sheer happiness over a b-day gift. You just can't grow up in the bayous or on the delta w/o knowing Jimmy Buffett & his music. Cheers to Jimmy from 2 grateful fans.
This song paints the picture of the Alabama Gulf Coast. These joints on the beach are the best. Don't care what you wear, Don't care how much money you have, let's just have a drink and have a good time. Miss seeing ole Ken Stabler at some of these places in Baldwin County. He was always just one of the guys. LuLu has her own place now on the intercoastal that brings in hundreds of thousands a year.
There really was a Bama Breeze, on the coastal highway outside of St. Georges Island, Florida. And then the storm took it and turned it into kindling. I know its not the one Jimmy's really singing about, but I can close my eyes and pretend it is, anyway.
His sister Lucy, who owns a place called LuLu's in Gulf Shores, Alabama, said it was based on several bars along the gulf coast. She said particularly the Flora-Bama, a bar right on the Florida-Alabama line.
I know what is is to miss home, I'm from mississippi, we moved to charlotte after Katrina for 5 years. This song brings back a lifetime of memories, the bar I turned 21 in was "the DOCK in ridgeland MS....stumbled out with the sun there so many wonderful times...
Reminds me of old Key West, stationed down there in the USN, 72-74... No Mallory Sq., just shrimp boats, run-away hippies, shrimpers, artie-craftie types and Buffett at Capt. Tonys...
Just went to key west last week it was very disappointing with the amount of trash and disrespectful ppl visiting there it’s said what has happened to it
i thought that was the firedog. My ex and I lived there back in '94-'98. Best years of my life. I was a cop in the Bay and it breaks my heart to see the damage after all these years.
DAM I LOVE JIMMY.......THIS IS KINDA OF A SAD SONG ABOUT YOUTH,WE ALL GO THROUGH IT,TIMES CHANGE...AND WE MOVE ON........BUT WE NEVER FORGET OUR GOOD TIMES......
NIce Video of one of my favorite Sings. Nice to See Jimmy's sister Lulu playing the Bar owner and getting up and singing with the band with a beer in her hand. While it's based on the Flora Bama he always says it's about most any bar that is on the water and the fu time people have had there.
I know what this song means even though I have no idea what that place is. A place that was destroyed by the hurricanes that will never be rebuild but the memories live in the stories of those that lived and stayed in that bar. The bar will live on in the minds of the ones that went there all the time.
Granted its all adults. But add a few kids. It would be just like the Beer joint that I use to go to with my mom and dad back in the 70s. When it was safe to take kids to these kind of places.
Jan 6th 2020.. just got back from the bama breeze (florabama).. went by myself, had a blast. If you really live it, it gets in your blood. I love that place, area, life style. Memphis is my work area, but the coast holds my heart.
I myself grew up listening to a lot of JB as we grew up in the same area of LA (lower Alabama) ;) I used to go down to the Judge Roy Beans bar to see JB play or Wet Willie play after a day on the beach at Gulf Shores. I take my user name from my old home away from home the Flora-Bama Lounge. This is why I have always related to JB as he is 11 years older than I am as I am now 52. JB went to the Univ. of Southern Miss. For a couple of years with my older brother.
"Bama Breeze" is a great song loosely based on a little bar we all know and love on the Florida/Alabama line...that was covered in 20 feet of sand after Hurricane Ivan hit a couple of years ago. Jimmy filmed the video in Bay St. Louis, MS. and New Orleans in July, and at the last minute called LuLu asking her to play the bar owner at the end of the song to the lyrics:
Being sober now for almost 20 years, this song gives me a bittersweet feeling...I miss the old days. That being said, a great song and video. "What the hell could it hurt?"
I have lived on the Gulf side of Florida for over twenty years. It’s paradise and Jimmy Buffett brought that feeling to everyone and anyone who loved him RIP.
I love this song. I grew up In DeFuniak Springs, FL and the place to hang out in my days was Miracle Strip Amusement Park. Man I love this town. and all the memories with frinds and family.
@FloraBama Even those of us who did not grow up near the beach but have visited there several times as children can identify with this. I love the ocean and the beach. Brings such good memories back.
Us Gulf coast people know what this song is all about! Many of us have lived and loved in places like that all over the Gulf. From Texas to Fla, we all had our Bama Breezes. Great people, great memories. Cant help but shed a tear when I hear this song. Thanks JB for telling our tale.
+molly mills As someone who grew up on the Gulf Coast I completely agree with your statement! Also, I think that the Gulf Coast is probably the most underrated part of the United States. Those of us that grew up here know what a special place it is, not to mention the fact that we have the absolute best people in the United States in my opinion. At the very least, some of the friendliest and most interesting people that you will meet in the U.S. are here on the Coast. Also, as you said many great little places (ie. Bama Breezes). This song definitely brings a tear to my eye too.
+molly mills Tennessee people do too. Every word of this song is so true!! I've been dragging my boat down to Orange Beach for years. For us it's like home with a beach. The first year we went, I told my wife, damn, the people are cool here. I feel like I know them. I've been all over central America and the US. lot of good people in those places, but, this song is so true. I'll be your neighbor when I retire!!
Demon50 a lot of it fits The Flora-Bama, but I don’t think it’s 100% about the Flora-Bama because Lulu was never an owner of the Flora-Bama. In my opinion, it’s kind of like some of the fictional places from “Tales From Margaritaville” that are in the general area of southern Baldwin County - there’s enough reality so you can almost pinpoint exactly where he’s talking about, but not quite...
Thanks Jimmy for all the great tunes. I remember, sitting and talking all night long with Frank Brown. Had my purse stolen & he found it. The warm fireplace in the back was cozy in the wintertime albeit a little lonesome with most folks gone for the winter. Just a few of us regulars. You sounded great even then with your acoustic guitar, just a couple of us sittin' around having a few......Thanks for remembering Joe & the Gang....
WISH I HAD A DOLLAR FOR EVERYTIME I WALKED THRU THE FRONT DOOR AT THE FLORA BAMA, WE USED TO PARTY THERE ON FRI N SAT NITES THEN AT 2AM CAUSE THE BAMA IS REALLY IN FLORIDA AND BARS THERE CLOSE AT 2AM OR SO , BUT THEN WE'D DRIVE A COUPLE MILES TO CANAL RDAND PARTY AT THE KEG TIL DAYLITE, CAUSE IN ALABAMA THE BARS STAY OPEN LONGER, AND SUNDAYS AT THE BAMA WAS A GREAT PLACE TO JUST BE LAZY AND ENJOY THE DECK OUT BACK AND EAT RAW OYSTERS AND DRINK BEER ,LOL,MISS IT!
I wanted to comment on this video because this is an awesome song but, I lived in GS for several years and loved every second of it. In September of 2004 when hurricane Ivan hit, I found out what ppl there have lived like for decades. I cried a lot for leaving and what we went through but more for what the Islanders there went through. God Bless you guys and I hope you are enjoying what I am missing out on just being an Islander for a short period of time.
Nice I never heard this one before.I used to play in a JB tribute band.I have been a fan since oh hell the 1970's! JB was a big influence on my playing and songwriting.Thanks for the good times Jimmy!
I had recently retired from the Navy and had just obtained my civilian mariners license when Katrina hit. I'm from Slidell, La. I went to work out of Houma La between Katrina and Rita. I rode Rita out on a 180' DSV in Houma, La. I saw the damage up front and personal... I spent about the next 14 years working out of south Louisiana, and weathered many more, though none as bad. I understand this song, I grew up in that special part of the world too...
this reminds me of summer at the river and beach. Nothing beats listening to this when you have the wind blowing in your hair and in your face. One of the best feelings in life. Man I love those days, they just seemed Perfect🙂
Thanks to Jimmy and the band for raising money for hurricane relief, advocating for normal, and trying to make peace with Brits after we whooped thier asses in the RevilutionaryWar. Here’s to Jimmy, Ronnie and the boys!
My thoughts exactly! Growing up on the Gulf was amazing. I grew up on the Mississippi coast, and have been to the Fire Dog. Bay St. Louis was such a beautiful and historic town. While I am from Gulfport and saw the tragedy and destruction there, I almost felt worse seeing the devastation that happened to the Bay.
Rest in peace Jimmy Buffett. You'll be missed!
I've been listening to his songs on loop ever since i found out he passed.
Damn, This is hitting me hard. 💔
I miss my Margarita Man daily❤❤😢
@@WishesofShelleme too man..ima getting waisted in.honor of jimmy❤
Rest in Paradise, Jimmy. Thank you for the great tunes and lovely memories ❤
You’ve moved on to much nicer beaches, Jimmy. But we’ll keep the booze in the blender down here and keep your spirit alive through songs like these. Thank you for everything!
Most of us have some sort of “bama breeze” type place in our lives. So many relatable things in the song. What is mentioned in the song touches us on a deeper level and puts us in a mindset we can recall. Brings a little tear to the eye.
In the 80s in rock hill, sc it was glory days. Great house band, great days, great memories. Just like the song, ''good GOD, I feel at home down there."
About the FloraBama, but made at the remains of the Firedog Saloon in Bay St Louis, MS after Hurricane Katrina. It is 4 years later and we are still recovering from that storm...
I spent a lot of time at the Flora Bama and the Fire Dog! I now live in Bay St. Louis and I used to live in Orange Beach!
This was shot in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina and my church was there cleaning up and as a treat they took us to the site and let us watch them shoot some of it. It was amazing.
That was the old Firedog Saloon. It used to be one of our favorite places before Katrina. They never built it back. There is a parking lot there now. We live about six blocks from there. But, there are a lot of new bar/grill/restaurants there now.
@@ralphholiman7401 BSL is not the same, remember the Good Life??? I will take the before katrina BSL, I used to work camp Stanislaus those hypocrite caltholic bastards
I was thinking it was about florabama now I know thanks
@@ralphholiman7401 You answered my question. The bridge and building look very familiar. Had some great times there.
@@vernholmes7940 , a new bar just opened on the old Firedog site called Rags to Ritches.
I grew up in Gulf Shores, Alabama, and this song hits the nail on the head on exactly what it was like growing up down there, especially pre-ivan, gives me chills every time i hear it.!
I grew up in Baldwin County too❤
Is there a bar called that or is he singing about the florabama?
Oh the firedog in bay St. Louis after Katrina ok
I’m a long ago veteran of Gulf Shores too (1965-05). Man has that place changed! I’d have to say Frederic, in 1979, was a major turning point. That’s when the real commercial development, high rise condos etc, started. Sure miss our little fishing village with one gas station, 3 restaurants, and a semi functional draw bridge that could leave you stranded on the island.
@@tommathews3964 Yessir. I am a veteran of Gulf Shores too. Remember when you could pull you car off to the side of the road on the main road and go jump in the gulf. There was a Holiday inn and few gas stations. Most residents were fishermen or oil workers. I remember the old draw bridge just to the west of hwy 59 that would handle all 50 cars that would pass over in a day. After Hurricane Frederick I saw the changes happening to our secret paradise. I have been to beaches all over the world but we still go to Gulf Shores every year and as long as I'm alive I will take it over any beaches I've ever seen. We still go down and stay at Ft Morgan rd where although it has changed it really hasn't. The small fishing houses have now become 6 bedroom mansions but its still the secluded, off the beaten path place that I remember from my youth.
I've been a "Parrot Head" for about 45 years now. This is one of my favorites...
I lived on the gulf coast for 5 years and it was amazing. People from the upper states ask "How do you live with gators and hurricanes?" It's the price you pay for living in the greatest place in the greatest country on earth. It was a small price. I miss Naples-Fort Myers like someone else misses their family. It was paradise.
Unfortunately the new generation has turned it all to shite my friend. I left when the wannabe gangsters started rapping and shooting and nothing even felt the same anymore. If you ain't heard of the Island Boys then you're a lucky duck! 😂❤ but I'll raise a beer for you and me and Ole Jimbo and what it used to be like. My cousin in his younger days is even in this very video!! ❤
He just dedicated it to all the little dive bars along the coast he grew up playing in from Texas to the Keys. Now they're just about gone. It's all casinos and high rise condo developments. Not like it was even in the 80's much less the 70's when he was coming up.
This song brings it all back. Left home in shorts and tshirt, with a guitar, $2 and 3 pair of underwear. Rode my thumb to Pass-A-Grille Beach, FLA in 1971. Lived on the beach for a while then with the Crazy Girls. Somehow drank for free and played air hockey all day in Shadracks on 8th Avenue. Got a house across from the Don CeSar and Hubbards Pier. Did my share of smugglin. And then this guy from Key West way comes along and puts it all to music. Ah The Stories We Could Tell. Thanks Jimmy
JBs music is not a music to lke or dislike, its a lifestyle to either like or dislike. If you didnt grow up on the beach you just wouldnt understand really. Especially the Gulf Coast beaches which are the prettiest in the US in my opinion and theyre very laid back beaches to say the least. The Keys are a lot like the Gulf Coast really as its very laid back too.
I just achieved my dream of buying a place in the Keys this past month and I am now living in Islamorada!
Jimmy wrote this song as a tribute to all of the local beach bars and dives that were destroyed in the tragic hurricane seasons of 2004-05. The video was shot in the ruins of the Firedog Saloon right off South Beach Blvd in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi. This area was one of the worst hit during Katrina and the people of the Mississippi still need our help to restore the infrastructure and get the ball rolling to rebuild better and stronger than before.
Went to the Firedog Saloon many times. Jimmy never forgot that he was from Mississippi.
My cousin is in the video❤
Everyone needs a Bama Breeze
True. The Florabama's a legendary spot. This song reminds me of it, actually.
RIP Mr Buffett!
Might be the same reason it brings a tear to my eye...I recall that as the Firedog Saloon and had many a good time there with my husband who is now also gone forever.
it doesnt matter what Jimmy does... everything that comes from his music touches every one of us in some way .... I used his music alot when i was in Afghanistan...... brings you back to "that state of mind"...
God Damn..
This brings tears to my eyes in a BIG way.
Places like this are super rare these days. I hung out in a ton of them.
As a veteran, I have spent a lot of time in some great towns by the Gulf from Tampa Fla. to Brownsville Tx. I even lived in Galveston for years. There is no other place like the Gulf coast! The people, the food, the ease of living in paradise...thats where I want to be! Ive seen many great coastal bars and clubs disappear from the earth after our hurricanes and storms, but somehow...they get rebuilt. It is heartbreaking to see something around so long and then its gone. Thats how we feel after the storms. We call it a small price you have to be willing to pay to live in paradise. This song takes me back! Fins up!!!
Pure Excellent! This artist has been able to do what very few have done, cross many lines of music styles. Hes heard on classic rock, easy listening, oldies, country, and on and on. And his music is about real life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One thing we gotta have while on the boat is Margaritaville on Sirius Radio. Love every Buffet song!
LBFT
I grew up in Gulf Shores Alabama, and this song pretty much sums up what it was like growing up on Alabama's beautiful Gulf Coast...this song always gives me chills...love it!
Yep, that's Bay St Louis, Mississippi, wrecked and ravaged by Katrina and looking really damn good these days!
RIP Jimmy!
The old Fire Dog Saloon.
FYR...this song was written and the video produced to raise funds for Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina devastated the coast. No, New Orleans wasn't the only area affected by Katrina, it was the squeaky wheel as other poorer states like Mississippi suffered in silence, wiped out in catastrophic proportion. To all the sheeple trying to spread the hate on this board, God help you out of your darkness. Long live Jimmy Buffet and the blissful state of mind his music puts a b'zillion folks on the planet in. Peace.
Well put.
+Isla de Milagros Wow, Isla, such deep and great musings. I feel the same. Thanks for your posting, Andy.
+Isla de Milagros SORRY YOU THE WRONG COLOR WRONG VOTER DEMOGRAPHIC
Spent summers down there. Pensacola, Gulf Shores, Destin, Panama City all over really. As for the latter I hear The Strip is gone now. 80's growing up that was the place to be. For a while I lived in Pearl River after the storm. Seems outside of NOLA nobody cared but also outside of the city was another mentality. You can still see traces of the storm 10 years later but also see people who put their heads down, got through it and rebuilt. There was a bar in Slidell that got destroyed in the storm, rebuilt, burned down just before reopening and rebuilt again. Southside I wanna say. Real easy to spend a Sunday there drinking.
I'm from Slidell and I approve this message, although not a fan of Southside Café, too expensive.
When I first heard this song I was at Patrick AF Base for training. I fell in love with it and did get a little sentimental and did a little research. I learned why it was so important to the local people as well as Jimmy Buffett. One day I would like to go down to the gulf coast and see some of this wonderful watering hole. FINS UP!!!!
The place they filmed it at, the old Firedog Saloon in Bay Saint Louis, MS, is gone. But, the FloraBama, which is probably the place the song was based on, is still there. Although it has taken a beating or two from hurricanes over the years. We used to go the FloraBama when it was just a shack on the beach back in the early 80's. It's so big now, I don't even know where the old part actually was.
I’m missing my man right now. His concerts made me so happy. Jimmy created a lifestyle. And was such a happy vibe. Thanks for all the memories!!
This song came out at a tough time in my life - Helped me through... Buffett ROCKS!!!!!!
How the hell this song did not get more radio play and go to the top of the charts is beyond me! Anybody over 30 can totally relate to this song!
I here yah.
The Fire Dog, where this video is filmed, is in Bay St. Louis, MS. It was across the street from the beach and was a great place to hangout before that damn storm. Just up the road from it on the beach was a dive called The Good Life or as we called it the "low life". It had a downstairs open air bar that opened right out onto the beach and was about 20 yards from the water. Good times, good times. Thats what this song is about, Good Times.
Thank God for Jimmy Buffett
god bless you for your tour and sacrifice... I am from Canada and want you to know that we Canadians support ALL the troop over there... god bless, and thank you for fighting for my freedom.
Seeing Jimmy live is one thing every person should be able to experience at least once before they die. A Buffett concert is like no where else on earth, for a few short hours, all the world seems right!
2/25/97 Orlando O-Rena. RIP Jimmy
That's for sure!!!❤ I had the pleasure of seeing him a handful of times and I'll never forget each one!❤ rip Jimmy! 😢
Kickin my butt, straight into no particular harbor. Much love, rest in paradise. ❤❤❤
We all have our "Bama Breeze" we lost somewhere. The good memories keep it alive!
This is Jimmy at his best. Love this video.
I met Jimmy years ago. He's one rock and roller that didn't turn out to be a real SAP! He's the real deal.
as long as we remeber those times and places they will never be truly lost...
i am 13 years old, ive been listening to JB for such a long time. hes a legend and my biggest hero FINS UP
Makes me wanna move back down south and start a bar on the beach and call it the "Bama Breeze"... Don't know what ever possessed me to make me leave Bama. I was born and raised in the south and spent many-a-day/night on those beaches and miss em. Never heard that song till tonight and it took me back (as allota Jim's songs do).. Thanks Jimmy, say hi to Lulu for me.
'Here's to Ronnie and the boys'.
Thank you JB, you were many things to many people, RIP.
Eat a cheeseburger for us, Jimmy. We will miss you.
Takes me back to living on Perdido Key, going to the Florabama all the time. Hope to get back there one day.
jimmy buffett is a pirate 200 years to late,he is the man!! lives the life he sings about.
My mom loved JB; I've heard his music all my life. A few yrs ago I wrote to ask for his autograph for my mother's b-day, explaining how much she enjoyed his music & him. The day prior to her b/day, an photo came in her mail w/personalized happy b-day & a little note about my request. I can't recall the last time my mom cried out of sheer happiness over a b-day gift. You just can't grow up in the bayous or on the delta w/o knowing Jimmy Buffett & his music. Cheers to Jimmy from 2 grateful fans.
This song paints the picture of the Alabama Gulf Coast. These joints on the beach are the best. Don't care what you wear, Don't care how much money you have, let's just have a drink and have a good time. Miss seeing ole Ken Stabler at some of these places in Baldwin County.
He was always just one of the guys. LuLu has her own place now on the intercoastal that brings in hundreds of thousands a year.
There really was a Bama Breeze, on the coastal highway outside of St. Georges Island, Florida. And then the storm took it and turned it into kindling. I know its not the one Jimmy's really singing about, but I can close my eyes and pretend it is, anyway.
His sister Lucy, who owns a place called LuLu's in Gulf Shores, Alabama, said it was based on several bars along the gulf coast. She said particularly the Flora-Bama, a bar right on the Florida-Alabama line.
I know what is is to miss home, I'm from mississippi, we moved to charlotte after Katrina for 5 years. This song brings back a lifetime of memories, the bar I turned 21 in was "the DOCK in ridgeland MS....stumbled out with the sun there so many wonderful times...
Makes me want to pack a bag and head down to the gulf. Stay a while...
Reminds me of old Key West, stationed down there in the USN, 72-74... No Mallory Sq., just shrimp boats, run-away hippies, shrimpers, artie-craftie types and Buffett at Capt. Tonys...
George Gilkenson thanks for sharing:)
Thank you for you service!
Just went to key west last week it was very disappointing with the amount of trash and disrespectful ppl visiting there it’s said what has happened to it
Key Largo, now CentFla..still visit...Met the Capn couple times early 80s
i thought that was the firedog. My ex and I lived there back in '94-'98. Best years of my life. I was a cop in the Bay and it breaks my heart to see the damage after all these years.
DAM I LOVE JIMMY.......THIS IS KINDA OF A SAD SONG ABOUT YOUTH,WE ALL GO THROUGH IT,TIMES CHANGE...AND WE MOVE ON........BUT WE NEVER FORGET OUR GOOD TIMES......
The song Bama breeze was filmed in Bay St Louis Mississippi after hurricane Katrina. The building where it was filmed at was the fire dog saloon
I had some good times at a bar called Florida-Bama right outside of Pensacola.
I was stationed at the Naval air station for over a year.
Seen Jimmy in St. Louis last night what a wonderful time! All his concerts are all about fun, even Jimmy had no shoes on!
Rest in peace to the legend
Best singer ever!!!!
NIce Video of one of my favorite Sings. Nice to See Jimmy's sister Lulu playing the Bar owner and getting up and singing with the band with a beer in her hand.
While it's based on the Flora Bama he always says it's about most any bar that is on the water and the fu time people have had there.
Its cool to know theres still awesome people like you n your church members..one love❤
most amazing performer of any era thank you Jimmy
I love Jimmy grew up listening to Jimmy and My kids are growin up Listening to the man so long live Jimmy Buffett
Love the parrotheads for life
Jimmy's best video...
Never get tired of watching this...
Celestino...
I know what this song means even though I have no idea what that place is. A place that was destroyed by the hurricanes that will never be rebuild but the memories live in the stories of those that lived and stayed in that bar. The bar will live on in the minds of the ones that went there all the time.
Granted its all adults. But add a few kids. It would be just like the Beer joint that I use to go to with my mom and dad back in the 70s. When it was safe to take kids to these kind of places.
Jan 6th 2020.. just got back from the bama breeze (florabama).. went by myself, had a blast. If you really live it, it gets in your blood. I love that place, area, life style. Memphis is my work area, but the coast holds my heart.
What a story teller Mr. Buffett is! I want to live in the world shown in this video.
Rip jimmy 😇😇😥😥🐐🐐🌅. Probably my favorite song of his
Rest in Peace Jimmy thank you for your music.😢
There’s so much emotion on n this song from the lyrics to Jimmy’s vocals and the guitar solo, I choke up every time I hear it.
Just saw this guy in concert at Nissan Pavilion in Manassas, Va and when this song played everyone was cheering and screaming. He is great in concert
I myself grew up listening to a lot of JB as we grew up in the same area of LA (lower Alabama) ;) I used to go down to the Judge Roy Beans bar to see JB play or Wet Willie play after a day on the beach at Gulf Shores. I take my user name from my old home away from home the Flora-Bama Lounge. This is why I have always related to JB as he is 11 years older than I am as I am now 52. JB went to the Univ. of Southern Miss. For a couple of years with my older brother.
HERE'S TO RONNIE AND THE BOY'S !!!!!! DAMN RIGHT.
EVERYBODY MAKE SOME NOISE!!!!!
"Bama Breeze" is a great song loosely based on a little bar we all know and love on the Florida/Alabama line...that was covered in 20 feet of sand after Hurricane Ivan hit a couple of years ago. Jimmy filmed the video in Bay St. Louis, MS. and New Orleans in July, and at the last minute called LuLu asking her to play the bar owner at the end of the song to the lyrics:
The bar on the state line was the Florabama I believe
The Florida state flag is shown in the video.
@@knightime It also says "Bama"", but this bar was in bay st. louis or pass christian, but i'm leaning more to BSL
@@poppaluv it was filmed at the Firedog Saloon in Bay St. Louis which was another awesome bar fitting the description described in “Bama Breeze”.
Being sober now for almost 20 years, this song gives me a bittersweet feeling...I miss the old days. That being said, a great song and video. "What the hell could it hurt?"
I have lived on the Gulf side of Florida for over twenty years. It’s paradise and Jimmy Buffett brought that feeling to everyone and anyone who loved him RIP.
I love this song. I grew up In DeFuniak Springs, FL and the place to hang out in my days was Miracle Strip Amusement Park. Man I love this town. and all the memories with frinds and family.
this video and song reminds me of when i used to live in galveston. god damn those were good times. i would give anything to go back.
Im not from galveston. Im from old Florida but i know how you feel
Jimmy Buffett - my hero in the 70's ---- and still is..... forever a parrothead
Wow the lyrics actually make sense and not a lot of repeating of the same words over and over like most music!!!!! This one's a winner
@FloraBama Even those of us who did not grow up near the beach but have visited there several times as children can identify with this. I love the ocean and the beach. Brings such good memories back.
Us Gulf coast people know what this song is all about! Many of us have lived and loved in places like that all over the Gulf. From Texas to Fla, we all had our Bama Breezes. Great people, great memories. Cant help but shed a tear when I hear this song. Thanks JB for telling our tale.
+molly mills As someone who grew up on the Gulf Coast I completely agree with your statement! Also, I think that the Gulf Coast is probably the most underrated part of the United States. Those of us that grew up here know what a special place it is, not to mention the fact that we have the absolute best people in the United States in my opinion. At the very least, some of the friendliest and most interesting people that you will meet in the U.S. are here on the Coast. Also, as you said many great little places (ie. Bama Breezes). This song definitely brings a tear to my eye too.
+molly mills Tennessee people do too. Every word of this song is so true!! I've been dragging my boat down to Orange Beach for years. For us it's like home with a beach. The first year we went, I told my wife, damn, the people are cool here. I feel like I know them. I've been all over central America and the US. lot of good people in those places, but, this song is so true.
I'll be your neighbor when I retire!!
molly mills
Wasn’t this particular bar he’s singing about located on the coast of Pensacola FL?
@@maddiesgamingchannel8163 The Flora Bama
Demon50 a lot of it fits The Flora-Bama, but I don’t think it’s 100% about the Flora-Bama because Lulu was never an owner of the Flora-Bama. In my opinion, it’s kind of like some of the fictional places from “Tales From Margaritaville” that are in the general area of southern Baldwin County - there’s enough reality so you can almost pinpoint exactly where he’s talking about, but not quite...
I know this is a southern song but reminds me so much of Long Beach, NY ... family and an amazing brotherhood that Sandy will never take away
Reminds me of OC Md when there was sand dunes instead of hotels and condos~
LOVE living in FL. There is nothing like it. Stay up north Northerners....just come visit from time to time.
"The Last Great American Roadhouse" lives on! As a resident of LA (Lower Alabama) this brings tears to my eyes as well. The Flora-Bama rocks!
Just about the best goddamn song ever
My brother lived in Semmes Alabama a suburb of Mobile.Beautiful place.Gulf Shores,Floribama.Great memories
God, this went somewhere I really didn't think it was going. I legit started crying at that last scene.
Thanks Jimmy for all the great tunes. I remember, sitting and talking all night long with Frank Brown. Had my purse stolen & he found it. The warm fireplace in the back was cozy in the wintertime albeit a little lonesome with most folks gone for the winter. Just a few of us regulars. You sounded great even then with your acoustic guitar, just a couple of us sittin' around having a few......Thanks for remembering Joe & the Gang....
This is already a good song, but the video makes it so much more intense, & truly makes me wish I had a place I could reflect on like this.
FloraBama!
double yep
WISH I HAD A DOLLAR FOR EVERYTIME I WALKED THRU THE FRONT DOOR AT THE FLORA BAMA, WE USED TO PARTY THERE ON FRI N SAT NITES THEN AT 2AM CAUSE THE BAMA IS REALLY IN FLORIDA AND BARS THERE CLOSE AT 2AM OR SO , BUT THEN WE'D DRIVE A COUPLE MILES TO CANAL RDAND PARTY AT THE KEG TIL DAYLITE, CAUSE IN ALABAMA THE BARS STAY OPEN LONGER, AND SUNDAYS AT THE BAMA WAS A GREAT PLACE TO JUST BE LAZY AND ENJOY THE DECK OUT BACK AND EAT RAW OYSTERS AND DRINK BEER ,LOL,MISS IT!
lenny moses the canal road party ? been their a million times but never knew of that one. lol.. rtr
hell to the yea yea.
Ceezy song is amazing i cant wait to blast this song while sitting on the beach
I wanted to comment on this video because this is an awesome song but, I lived in GS for several years and loved every second of it. In September of 2004 when hurricane Ivan hit, I found out what ppl there have lived like for decades. I cried a lot for leaving and what we went through but more for what the Islanders there went through. God Bless you guys and I hope you are enjoying what I am missing out on just being an Islander for a short period of time.
Nice I never heard this one before.I used to play in a JB tribute band.I have been a fan since oh hell the 1970's! JB was a big influence on my playing and songwriting.Thanks for the good times Jimmy!
I had recently retired from the Navy and had just obtained my civilian mariners license when Katrina hit. I'm from Slidell, La. I went to work out of Houma La between Katrina and Rita. I rode Rita out on a 180' DSV in Houma, La. I saw the damage up front and personal... I spent about the next 14 years working out of south Louisiana, and weathered many more, though none as bad. I understand this song, I grew up in that special part of the world too...
this reminds me of summer at the river and beach.
Nothing beats listening to this when you have the wind blowing in your hair and in your face.
One of the best feelings in life.
Man I love those days, they just seemed Perfect🙂
Thanks to Jimmy and the band for raising money for hurricane relief, advocating for normal, and trying to make peace with Brits after we whooped thier asses in the RevilutionaryWar. Here’s to Jimmy, Ronnie and the boys!
My thoughts exactly! Growing up on the Gulf was amazing. I grew up on the Mississippi coast, and have been to the Fire Dog. Bay St. Louis was such a beautiful and historic town. While I am from Gulfport and saw the tragedy and destruction there, I almost felt worse seeing the devastation that happened to the Bay.
Only those that have lived through a severe hurricane can understand the loss. Ours was Hugo.
This was filmed in Bay St. Louis, MS after Katrina in what is left of "The Firedog Saloon".
THIS ONE MAKES ME CRY A LITTLE,