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♪ ♪ as the son of a son who saved me i went out on the sea for adventure ♪ ♪ i'm still the son of a son ♪ son of a son ♪ son of the son of a sailor. >> that year he's stuck at home as high and dry as the rest of us. >> you've been talking about taking a summer after what? o 40 years now? >> yeah. this isn't quite what i had in mind. but you know, make lemonade out of lemons, so the interesting thing is with all the tragedy and the serious things that are going on, there are -- i've been having to deal with it and i talked to a lot of other people and you find some silver linings and all this. and that's what we're doing. >> how do you like it so far? >> this is how he's using his time. doing concerts often for first

responders. ♪ >> historically you think about it. in times like this you still have to have a little fun. you still have to have a rest from what's going on. i knew that that was the case because a lot of health care workers doctors know, i know for a long time, have used my music in operating rooms and emergency rooms to calm down. ♪ >> and lately he's been able to share new music. his just-released album. life on the flip side, is already getting rave reviews for its good time anthems ♪ >> and songs like this ♪ ♪ your conflict and chaos where i y subside ♪ come from ♪ ♪ back to slack tide. >> a slak tide is the dyed

before the water turns where the world is calm and the world seems to take a beat. aveun♪ p o t worldnd thniverse tha allows you the time to kind of take a breath and it seems a lot of people aren't doing that now. if you just -- it's not you got to solve ever problem or like everything everybody else does but everybody needs to take a breaths. that's one of the underlying messages in these songs ♪ i wish the whole wide world could swim along at slack tide ♪ >> the song was written before the current political storm with you it seems all the more appropriate now. ♪ slack tide >> beautiful. thank you so much. >> that's the first time i've done thain public. >> seriously?

that's awesome. >> i thought that would be a good one. >> i quite agree. that was beautiful. thank you. let's go back a little bit. this is your first new album in seven years. i know what you've been doing part of those past seven years because i was with you for part of it. >> right. >> yeah. and this is what took up so much of his time. >> welcome to our very first reshersle for "escape to margaritaville." ♪ ♪ >> you never know what the public's going to buy. i jump out of the door of this airplane and see what happens. >> yeah. >> yeah. leap and a net will appear. hopefully. >> last time i talked to you, that was launching. >> yep. >> how did it go? >> it was five years in the making to get to can broadway. it had an audience out in the country and so we were on a two-year tour of the show ♪

it was doing great when we had to shut down. that was what was going on for about five of those years when people thought i was laying in the hammock. no. i was working. she was like she was going to work. >> depends on what kind of work it is. >> in this town, god knows. >> he's always been working. he's been going nonstop for most of his adults life ♪ ♪ heading out to san francisco ♪ >> since his young days as a street performer in new orleans. do you think there would be a jimmy buffett if there wasn't a new orleans? >> that's a very interesting question. i don't think there ever would have been. i mean, those years being here really made me a better professional player so that i thought i could make that leap and this was my training ground for all that. it's an interesting question. i think no, it probably would not have happened.

♪ ♪ work work >> now more than 50 years later he's still in the game but acknowledges there is a finish line ahead. >> a lot of your songs have dealt with serious subjects. you've talked a lot about mortality and on this album, you talk about mortality. you think about that a lot? >> you knows, there's an end coming up there. at 73, i look ahead of people that i know now. we just lost one who was a dear friend and a great inspiration. carl rieb effort at 98. then they'll look at did 8 o-year-olds that are still doing it and the late 70-year-olds who are still doing. that's what i'm watching. ♪ ♪ wasted away again in marring redaville ♪ ♪ i like that place. working seems to be the maij

elixir when you can do the things you can do at that age. ♪ ♪ some people claim that there's a woman to blame ♪ ♪ but i know >> if anything, it seems jimmy buffett is getting better with age. ♪ i don't know the reason >> there's no telling when his die heart fans, the parrot heads will hear this song in person again, but jimmy says that as soon as it's safe to go back in the water, he's going to jump in with both feet. ♪ ♪ some people claim that there's a woman to blame ♪ >> do you miss the big crowds? >> yes. i miss ilot. there's nothi like it. mean, w book on the shelf yet. there will be an end to this that we know and i plan to be there unless i tell everybody, that show, whenever it is and wherever it is, that's going to

be one hell of a show. then we're just going to keep going. ♪

>> it's said no one enjoys opera more than italians. with theaters shuttered by the pandemic, music lovers in roam are turning to an ancient venue. chris live say put on a tuxedo to take in a show. ♪ ♪ >> the heart form is synonymous with italy. but the setting is out of place and time. ♪ ♪ ♪ more than 2,000 years ago it was the circus. tonight, it's if opening night. being intercepted with a 1970 setting. but the audience is unmistakably

from 2020. safely seated more than six feet apart, something the royal opera couldn't achieve inside its concert hall or at its smaller outdoor venue. ♪ >> the circus maximum spanning more than two football fields, she says is a god send. >> it's been months since we request go to theaters because it was not a safe place. we were waiting for this to come back to life. i feel like a young, young, young singer again. >> a young singer in an old place with a history of charismatic performers. ♪ >> now picture it. this is the same racetrack where emperor nero himself would race his cheruiyot before 150,000 screaming romans. today because of social distancing and coronavirus, it's

only 1500 spectators here at the opera. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: seeing verde eed lifend we need snenld ♪ >> even the set was designed with social distancing in mind. ♪ >> when you have the energy to go through a person, you have a cart in the middle so you member you have to go to the other side. with the singing, withhe music, you can give immersions. >> if there's going to be a second act, even opera can adapt. ♪ ♪ chris live say, rome. >> that's the overnight news for this friday.

reporting from the cbs studios in washington, i'm kris van cleave. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> o'donnell: tonight, from atlanta, the final farewell to civil rights icon john lewis becomes a battle cry to revitalize a movement and urge people to vote. three former presidents come to america's freedom church to say good-bye to a warrior. >> john lewis will be a founding father of that fuller, fairer, better america. ( applause ) >> o'donnell: and former president obama had a blunt message aimed at president trump. >> there are those in power who are doing their darnedest to discourage people from voting. ♪ ♪ >> o'donnell: tonight, we hear from lewis himself, the final message he saved just for this day.