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List Price: $15.98 | | Label: Mailboat Records
Salesrank: 4602
Released: December 9, 2008 |
| Our Price: $7.51 |
| Used Price: $7.24 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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License to Chill Track Listing:
1. Hey Good Lookin' - Clint Black, Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, George Strait
2. Boats to Build - Jimmy Buffett, Alan Jackson, Alan Jackson
3. License to Chill - Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Chesney
4. Coast of Carolina - Jimmy Buffett
5. Piece of Work - Jimmy Buffett, Toby Keith
6. Anything Anytime Anywhere - Jimmy Buffett
7. Trip Around the Sun - Jimmy Buffett, Martina McBride
8. Simply Complicated - Jimmy Buffett
9. Coastal Confessions - Jimmy Buffett
10. Sea of Heartbreak - Jimmy Buffett, George Strait
11. Conky Tonkin' - Clint Black, Jimmy Buffett
12. Playin' the Loser Again - Jimmy Buffett, Bill Withers
13. Window on the World - Jimmy Buffett
14. Someone I Used to Love - Jimmy Buffett, Nanci Griffith
15. Scarlet Begonias - Jimmy Buffett
16. Back to the Island - Jimmy Buffett
Editorial Review:
Thankfully, back in print, License To Chill is the easy going singer/songwriter's 2004 album that took the music world by storm, landing on the #1 spot on Billboard's Top 200 and Country charts. This release, Buffett's first true Country album, features contributions from Country stars including Alan Jackson, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Marina McBride, George Strait, Clint Black, and Nanci Griffith. 16 tracks.
Description of License to Chill:
Country music's infatuation with the puka-shell rock of Jimmy Buffett has been one of the genre's less fortunate indulgences. Most of Nashville's hat acts do little more than dip their toe in the water and do nothing to build upon Buffett's signature sounds. That's why License to Chill, which features a plethora of Music City guests (Alan Jackson, Kenny Chesney, Clint Black, George Strait, Martina McBride, Toby Keith) along with Bill Withers and Nanci Griffith, seems like a bad idea. But the album, on which the Key West hedonist performs his favorite "bar gig" songs, as he calls them, often delights. As someone who began his songwriting career in Nashville (and who's also recorded more than half his albums there), Buffett isn't just slumming, as his choice of covers (from such writers as Guy Clark, John Hiatt, Hank Williams, and Jerry Garcia) proves. What could have been little more than a lark, then, ends up being a showcase for Buffett the serious songwriter and song finder. Although he does indulge in the occasional beach-minded thong-writing, Chill is a surprisingly satisfying album aimed less at the Parrothead crowd and more toward an audience who remembers the Buffett of 30 years ago, a man who struggled to make his mark among Nashville's most revered tunesmiths. --Alanna Nash
License to Chill Reviews:
License to Puke 
2009-12-02 - Oh, that's my boy Buffett, appealing to every simpleton humanoid that grazes Wal-Marts and Old Country Buffets across the rapidly dumbing down nation of America. How about some real songs like "Git R Done," "I Ain't Got No Educashun, I'm Street Smart" and "There Goes My Trailer, Been Done Repo'd By The Bank!"
Wal-Mart, Reality TV, Pizza Hut, McDonalds, Jimmy Buffett, Larry the Cable Guy - the white trashing of America continues...
Not a big Buffet fan, but... 
2009-10-09 - Although I'm a long way from claiming Parrot Head status, this is a good collection of songs. I received it as a gift from a Parrot Head friend, because I had commented that the HEY, GOOD LOOKIN' number was well done. As I have listened to the entire CD, it has grown on me. Don't know if a true, blue Buffet fan would find it as enjoyable as his other more "sun-drenched" styles.
If you're a Buffet fan
2008-05-05 - If you're a Buffet fan, you'll enjoy. If you're a country fan, maybe not. JB puts his own style to the songs, hence Buffet fans will enjoy. Some country fans don't like messing with their music, and some reviews definitely didn't like the different spin on well known songs.
great CD 
2008-05-05 - this is a great cd he even plays a grateful dead tune! you won't be disapointed if you buy this CD!
FLIP FLOPS AND COWBOY BOOTS !
2008-03-26 - I went to my first Jimmy Buffett concert back in 1978, and I've been to Margaritaville more than a few times, too. I'm also one of the long time Jimmy Buffett fans who likes his Nashville collaboration album, License To Chill (2004). Sure, it's got more of a country sound than is usual for a Jimmy Buffett album, but it's not hard-core country by any stretch. Almost every song has a Parrothead or Jimmy Buffett theme, and Bubba doesn't get lost behind the subtle pedal steel guitars or the country music stars who sing with him. Jimmy Buffett is the star here, and everybody on the album lets him shine. Most of the songs could have fit on any Jimmy Buffett album.
Boats To Build (w/Alan Jackson):
Days precious days roll in and out like waves
I got boards to bend, I got planks to nail
I got charts to make, I got seas to sail
License To Chill (w/Kenny Chesney):
Livin' for the weekend, jumpin' off the deep end
With just enough money to buy a license to chill
...and I believe I will
Trip Around The Sun (w/Martina McBride):
I'm just hanging on while this old world keeps spinning
And it's good to know it's out of my control
If there's one thing that I've learned from all this living
It's that it wouldn't change a thing if I let go
Parrotheads, you don't have to trade in your flip flops for cowboy boots to enjoy this one; just make some minor adjustments to the delicate country/Carribean mix. Bubba sounds like he's having a great time here, and so does everybody else. Boats To Build (w/Alan Jackson) is my favorite song on the album, but Coast Of Carolina and Coastal Confessions are also great. Buffett sings alone on six of the sixteen songs, nine songs are duets, and Jimmy hams it up with Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and George Strait on Hank Williams' Hey Good Lookin' to start the album.
It took a couple of listens for me to really get over the "intrusion" of all these country music stars on a Jimmy Buffett album, but I've come to like this album quite a bit since that first listen. So forget the cowboy boots, and leave your flip flops on, grab a margarita, sit back with your license to chill and Jimmy Buffett's License To Chill, and chill. Summer's almost here!
