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1.StopNobody from Nowhere – Jimmy Buffett 05:06
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2.StopWings – Jimmy Buffett 03:46
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3.StopBig Top – Jimmy Buffett 04:30
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4.StopBeautiful Swimmers – Jimmy Buffett 05:21
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5.StopTurn Up the Heat and Chill the Rosé – Jimmy Buffett 03:49
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6.StopSummerzcool – Jimmy Buffett 03:15
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7.StopRhumba Man – Jimmy Buffett 04:10
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8.StopWe Learned to Be Cool from You – Jimmy Buffett 05:54
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9.StopSurfing in a Hurricane – Jimmy Buffett 04:25
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10.StopLife Short Call Now – Jimmy Buffett 04:08
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11.StopBuffet Hotel – Jimmy Buffett 05:59
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12.StopA Lot to Drink About – Jimmy Buffett 03:28
Since Jimmy Buffett never leaves his comfort zone, it’s hard to call 2009’s Buffet Hotel a return to roots but, in a way, it is. Discounting the mock rap on “Turn Up the Heat and Chill the Rosé,” this album doesn’t even have the lingering country and reggae flavors that seasoned 2006’s Take the Weather with You, with all of the songs riding a cool, mellow country-rock wave, the kind that has been his stock-in-trade since the ‘70s. There’s a difference between being part of a tradition and being stuck in the past and Buffett is surely in the former, not shying away from the new millennial mess, admitting that we all have “A Lot to Drink About” and never flinching from his advancing years, most movingly on a cover of Bruce Cockburn’s “Life’s Short Call Now.” Cockburn’s song is paired with another expertly chosen cover, Jesse Winchester’s “Rhumba Man” (he covered Winchester’s “Nothin’ But a Breeze” the album before), but this has the highest percentage of original Buffett compositions since 1999’s Beach House on the Moon, which is a good indication that Jimmy is in good form. While a handful are collaborations with his longtime colleague Mac McAnally, many of these are co-written with Will Kimbrough, who helps liven up Buffett and sharpen his pen, resulting in one of Jimmy’s strongest albums in recent memory. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
- Genre: Rock
- Category Country-Rock
- Release Date: December 8, 2009
- Artist: Buffett Jimmy
- Additional Artist: Nadirah Shakoor (Vocals ), Jimmy Buffett (Vocals ), Peter Mayer (Vocals ), Jim Mayer (Vocals ), Mac McAnally (Vocals ), Tina Gullickson (Vocals ), Will Kimbrough (Vocals )