Art Over Margaritas!: The Battle for Shrimpboat Sound and the Soul of Key West

Two visions square off over Jimmy Buffett’s old Shrimpboat Sound Studio — one led by Parrot Heads chasing art and charity, the other by developers chasing dollars and frozen drinks.

I. The Battle of Lazy Way Lane

There it squats — sun-bleached, windowless, proud — the concrete chapel of sound on Lazy Way Lane, where Jimmy Buffett once captured the heartbeat of the islands. Shrimp…