License to Chill

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License to Chill
Studio album by Jimmy Buffett
Released	2004

License to Chill is the breakthrough 2004 (see 2004 in music) album by Jimmy Buffett. License to Chill, released on July 13, 2004, sold 238,600 copies in its first week of release according to Nielsen SoundScan.

On this album, Buffett has many duets with noted country music artists, on country songs including "Hey Good Lookin’" by Hank Williams. With this, Buffett topped the U.S. country albums chart for the first time in his three-decade career making some longtime fans feel that Buffett has alienated them by abandoning his traditional "Gulf and Western" sound for a more commercial and thus mainstream act. Buffett perhaps explores the problem in his song "Simply Complicated" in the line "Am I country, pop or rock and roll, I know they are related..."

This is also the name of his 2004 Tour, which included two shows at Boston's Fenway Park. In November 2005, Mailboat Records released "Live at Fenway Park", a live recording of the two shows. Included was a 55 minute DVD of the show.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Hey Good Lookin’" (Hank Williams) - 3:03 (with Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and George Strait)
2. "Boats To Build" (Guy Clark/Verlon Thompson) - 2:54 (with Alan Jackson)
3. "License To Chill" (Jimmy Buffett/Mac McAnally/Al Anderson) - 3:56 (with Kenny Chesney)
4. "Coast Of Carolina" (Jimmy Buffett/Mac McAnally) - 3:41
5. "Piece Of Work" (William A. Kimbrough) - 3:20 (with Toby Keith)
6. "Anything, Anytime, Anywhere" (Bruce Cockburn) - 3:25
7. "Trip Around The Sun" (Al Anderson/Steve Bruton/Sharon Vaughn) - 3:19 (with Martina McBride)
8. "Simply Complicated" (Jimmy Buffett/Bill Withers) - 2:15
9. "Coastal Confessions" (Jimmy Buffett) - 5:27
10. "Sea Of Heartbreak" (Hal David/Paul Hampton) - 4:01 (with George Strait)
11. "Conky Tonkin'" (Jimmy Buffett and Bingo Gubelman) - 3:47 (with Clint Black)
12. "Playin' The Loser Again" (Bill Withers) - 3:04 (with Bill Withers)
13. "Window On The World" (John Hiatt) - 3:35
14. "Someone I Used To Love" (Bruce Cockburn) - 3:27 (with Nanci Griffith)
15. "Scarlet Begonias" (Jerome Garcia/Robert Hunter) - 4:33
16. "Back To The Island" (Leon Russell) - 3:22

[edit] Personnel

• Jimmy Buffett — Guitar, Vocals
• Michael Utley — Keyboards
• Robert Greenidge — Steel Drums; Timbales
• Ralph McDonald — Percussion

Preceded by The Hunger For More by Lloyd Banks

Billboard 200 Number 1 Album July 31, 2004 - August 6, 2004

Succeeded by Autobiography by Ashlee Simpson