License to Chill
License to Chill | ||||
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Studio album by Jimmy Buffett | ||||
Released | July 13, 2004 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
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Allmusic | [1] |
Rolling Stone | [2] |
License to Chill is the twenty-fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and was released on July 13, 2004, by Mailboat and RCA Records. It is his only album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. License to Chill, 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. This rendition reached No. 8 on the Billboard country singles charts; another single, "Trip Around the Sun" (a duet with Martina McBride) reached No. 20. The album features the most covers he's recorded for an album - 11 of the 16 songs are covers.
This is also the name of his 2004 concert 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.
Track listing
- "Hey, Good Lookin'" (Hank Williams) - 3:03
- feat. Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and George Strait
- "Boats to Build" (Guy Clark, Verlon Thompson) - 2:54
- feat. Alan Jackson
- "License to Chill" (Jimmy Buffett, Mac McAnally, Al Anderson) - 3:56
- feat. Kenny Chesney
- "Coast of Carolina" (Buffett, McAnally) - 3:41
- "Piece of Work" (William A. Kimbrough) - 3:20
- feat. Toby Keith
- "Anything, Anytime, Anywhere" (Bruce Cockburn) - 3:25
- "Trip Around the Sun" (Anderson, Stephen Bruton, Sharon Vaughn) - 3:19
- feat. Martina McBride
- "Simply Complicated" (Buffett, Bill Withers) - 2:15
- "Coastal Confessions" (Buffett) - 5:27
- "Sea of Heartbreak" (Hal David, Paul Hampton) - 4:01
- feat. George Strait
- "Conky Tonkin'" (Buffett, Bingo Gubelman) - 3:47
- feat. Clint Black
- "Playin' The Loser Again" (Bill Withers) - 3:04
- feat. Bill Withers
- "Window on the World" (John Hiatt) - 3:35
- "Someone I Used to Love" (Bruce Cockburn) - 3:27
- feat. Nanci Griffith
- "Scarlet Begonias" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) - 4:33
- "Back to the Island" (Leon Russell) - 3:22
Chart performance
Chart (2004) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 1 |
U.S. Billboard 200 | 1 |
References
Preceded by The Hunger For More by Lloyd Banks |
Billboard 200 number-one album July 25, 2004 - July 31, 2004 |
Succeeded by Autobiography by Ashlee Simpson |
Preceded by Here for the Party by Gretchen Wilson |
Top Country Albums number-one album July 31 - September 3, 2004 |
Succeeded by Horse of a Different Color by Big & Rich |