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
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| 1. | "Hey, Good Lookin'" (feat. Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and George Strait) | Hank Williams | 3:03 |
| 2. | "Boats to Build" (feat. Alan Jackson) | Guy Clark, Verlon Thompson | 2:54 |
| 3. | "License to Chill" (feat. Kenny Chesney) | Jimmy Buffett, Mac McAnally, Al Anderson | 3:56 |
| 4. | "Coast of Carolina" | Buffett, McAnally | 3:41 |
| 5. | "Piece of Work" (feat. Toby Keith) | William A. Kimbrough | |
| 6. | "Anything, Anytime, Anywhere" | Bruce Cockburn | 3:25 |
| 7. | "Trip Around the Sun" (feat. Martina McBride) | Anderson, Stephen Bruton, Sharon Vaughn | 3:19 |
| 8. | "Simply Complicated" | Buffett, Bill Withers | 2:15 |
| 9. | "Coastal Confessions" | Buffett | 5:27 |
| 10. | "Sea of Heartbreak" (feat. George Strait) | Hal David, Paul Hampton | 4:01 |
| 11. | "Conky Tonkin'" (feat. Clint Black) | Buffett, Bingo Gubelman | 3:47 |
| 12. | "Playin' the Loser Again" (feat. Bill Withers) | Bill Withers | 3:04 |
| 13. | "Window on the World" | John Hiatt | 3:35 |
| 14. | "Someone I Used to Love" (feat. Nanci Griffith) | Bruce Cockburn | 3:27 |
| 15. | "Scarlet Begonias" | Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter | 4:33 |
| 16. | "Back to the Island" | Leon Russell | 3:22 |
Chart positions
| Chart (2004) |
Peak
position |
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums |
1 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 |
1 |
