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Track Listing
1. Hey Good Lookin' - (featuring Clint Black/Kenny Chesney/Alan Jackson/Toby Keith/George Strait)
2. Boats to Build - (featuring Alan Jackson)
3. License to Chill - (with Kenny Chesney)
4. Coast of Carolina
5. Piece of Work - (with Toby Keith)
6. Anything, Anytime, Anywhere
7. Trip Around the Sun - (featuring Martina McBride)
8. Simply Complicated
9. Coastal Confessions
10. Sea of Heartbreak - (featuring George Strait)
11. Conky Tonkin' - (featuring Clint Black)
12. Playin' the Loser Again - (featuring Bill Withers)
13. Window on the World
14. Someone I Used to Love - (featuring Nanci Griffith)
15. Scarlet Begonias
16. Back to the Island
Album Notes
Personnel: Jimmy Buffett (vocals, guitar); Mac McAnally (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Clint Black, George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Nanci Griffith, Toby Keith, Bill Withers (vocals); Sonny Landreth, Will Kimbrough, Al Anderson (guitar); Doyle Grisham (pedal steel guitar); Stuart Duncan (fiddle); Buster Somar (harmonica); Michael Utley, Tony Brown, Bill Payne (keyboards); Glenn Worf (bass guitar); Roger Guth (drums); Robert Greenidge (steel drum, timbales); Eric Darken, Ralph MacDonald (percussion).
Recording information: Shrimp Boat Sound Studio, Key West, Florida; Seventeen Grand Recording, Nashville, Tennessee; Sound Emporium, Nashville, Tennessee.
As most devoted Parrotheads are well aware, Jimmy Buffett is no stranger to country music. Before he developed his trademark brand of Caribbean-influenced good-time pop, the sun-loving singer paid his dues on the Nashville circuit, eventually recording two albums of accomplished, if not particularly commercially successful, country rock (the best tracks from which were collected on 1994's BACK TO THE BEACH). With LICENSE TO CHILL, Buffett brings the cowboys to the beach, employing the talents of Music City's first-call studio musicians and superstar performers. Buffett's music is so comfortable that duet contributions from artists as diverse as Toby Keith, Nanci Griffith, and Bill Withers all sound perfectly at home. By applying island rhythms to country classics and combining steel of the pedal and drum varieties in a single song, Buffett has once again developed a new hybrid style that could perhaps be called "all-American world music."
Industry Reviews
Buffett's smart - he knows the country demo is his as well, and clever genre mash-ups like 'Conky Tonkin'' and the oldie 'Sea of Heartbreak' make this experiment work. - Grade: B
Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - [T]he laid-back shuffle of songs such as the honky-tonk title track has earned him his first-ever Number One album.
3 1/2 stars out of 5 - The reassuring message is that getting older isn't all bad once you learn how to roll with the swell and, most important of all, chill out.
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