License to Chill

License to Chill
Studio album by Jimmy Buffett
Released	July 13, 2004
Genre	Country
Label	Mailboat RCA
Producer	Mac McAnally Michael Utley
Jimmy Buffett chronology
Far Side of the World (2002) License to Chill (2004) Take the Weather with You (2006)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
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

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

Chart performance

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