Mac McAnally, who plays Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida on April 12, 2025. Credit: Photo by Sean Hagwell c/o 117 Group

Jimmy Buffett is gone, so his fans cling to his collaborators instead.

Members of the Coral Reefer Band were in St. Pete recently, and this weekend Pinellas welcomes another one of Jimmy’s pals, Mac McAnally, who was the late-songwriter’s sidekick for almost three decades.

Bring your gummies, too.

Tickets to see Mac McAnally play Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater on Saturday, April 12 are still available and start at $43.53.

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This article appears in Apr 3-9, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...