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Ilph wrote:I am really looking forward to this new album coming out.

msu#1 wrote:Be As You Are
Songs From An Old Blue Chair
Liner Notes
I have always been drawn to the ocean…
Even as a little kid, going to Myrtle Beach with my family, there was just something about the pull of the sea that drew me out of bed, kept me in the water long past dinner - and made a kid from the Smokey Mountains feel strangely settled and at home.
Maybe somebody way back in my family tree had a love affair with the tropics - somebody who felt their heart beat a little deeper when they were sitting on the beach, under the stars and a full moon with a gentle wind in their face, just staring into the horizon. Or maybe they were kicked back in a little bar, listening to music drifting through the warm air, telling stories with whomever else might be setting there, nowhere to be, nothing to prove, just the night and the people enjoying the quiet and the laughter in that moment.
The Old Man and The Sea is one of my favorite books. That tug he felt always felt right to me - even before I found the blue water of the Caribbean. Because there's something about the islands that holds you, that soothes you, that melts the stress, ambition and expectations in ways you can't explain.
I've spent the vast majority of the past several years in the islands. When I wasn't on the road, I was on my boat - drifting to nowhere, just feeling the waves and writing songs about the freedom I found there. It's a lifestyle, this not needing to be anywhere but there… and it's really become the way I walk through the world no matter where I am.
Down there, everything moves to its own time. A single moment can last for hours, days can just stand still- or be over just like that. It makes no sense, you think nothing about it. It's just… easy.
It's a place where old weathered flags move slowly with the wind, hanging from the different bar ceilings - each with a different story and personality from years past. Where you can walk up to a bar from a beach you've just sailed into with wet money in your pocket, order something and start a tab by the name of your boat.
Where no matter what your truth is, who people think you are, where you're from or what you do, you can strip down to your basic self. You can lose yourself, find yourself, reinvent yourself, simply be as you are.
A friend of mine in the Virgin Islands once told me, "If you live here, you either become a bartender, a boatie or a bum…" I've become friends with people who fit each of those, and so many more. These are really amazing characters, unique individuals with big hearts and deep souls - who'll welcome you in and make you feel like you're home.
Over countless days over several years, that's just what they've done for me. Watching the sun move across the sky, anchored down on some remote island, hanging out in a funky little bar where the rum drinks flow, burgers get eaten and the counters are littered with locals, tourists and the folks caught somewhere between the two.
I've been blessed, absolutely. And some of the greatest treasure I've found are the people across the jewels that're the Caribbean islands. Many of them have not only inspired these songs, but literally been the songs - and they've shown me a way to live, love, laugh, breathe, which is where these songs have come from. I can tell you: it's a good way to be.

So this album goes out to anyone who lives their life in flip-flops or who wish that they could. To all those people who've touched my heart with their carefree sense of life, French kissing the moment and living life as it comes - and to anyone who's ever signed the guest book on my boat. If you have, then I know you've shared an important part of my life. And to the fans, whether you know it or not, you've signed my heart, and that is the reason I wanted to share this part of my life with you…
Be As You Are, it's all that you need to get by.
God Bless
Kenny
British Virgin Islands
June 29, 2004

Tiki Bar wrote:Thanks MSU!!

As for the schedule - I'm guessing most of those must be college towns, since the IL dates aren't in Chicago.

Anyone know off hand where Moline is? I better make myself a bigger concert budget!

DsilCaribe wrote:

Ilph wrote:I am really looking forward to this new album coming out.

I agree . . . this is the release im most looking forward to. It's really nice to see that Kenny got into the whole island thing, and not in a very tacky way . . . because buffett's island stuff has never been tacky, and from what i've heard of this album its not tacky at all like "Some Beach" or "How'd I Wind Up In Jamaica" or "Stays In Mexico" or even "5'oclock Somewhere"

Be As You Are
Songs From An Old Blue Chair
Liner Notes
I have always been drawn to the ocean…
Even as a little kid, going to Myrtle Beach with my family, there was just something about the pull of the sea that drew me out of bed, kept me in the water long past dinner - and made a kid from the Smokey Mountains feel strangely settled and at home.
Maybe somebody way back in my family tree had a love affair with the tropics - somebody who felt their heart beat a little deeper when they were sitting on the beach, under the stars and a full moon with a gentle wind in their face, just staring into the horizon. Or maybe they were kicked back in a little bar, listening to music drifting through the warm air, telling stories with whomever else might be setting there, nowhere to be, nothing to prove, just the night and the people enjoying the quiet and the laughter in that moment.
The Old Man and The Sea is one of my favorite books. That tug he felt always felt right to me - even before I found the blue water of the Caribbean. Because there's something about the islands that holds you, that soothes you, that melts the stress, ambition and expectations in ways you can't explain.

sonofabeach wrote:

DsilCaribe wrote:

Ilph wrote:I am really looking forward to this new album coming out.

I agree . . . this is the release im most looking forward to. It's really nice to see that Kenny got into the whole island thing, and not in a very tacky way . . . because buffett's island stuff has never been tacky, and from what i've heard of this album its not tacky at all like "Some Beach" or "How'd I Wind Up In Jamaica" or "Stays In Mexico" or even "5'oclock Somewhere"

I would'nt call them tacky. I for one love the fun island anthems.
"Stays in Mexico" is basically the same message as "The Weather is here",
"Who's the blonde Stranger","No plane on Sunday" and if that's tacky, give me tacky!!!!

I can't wait for this album!
The more tropical music the better!!!

sonofabeach wrote:Dsil-
True indeed.
I've heard some song samples on his ite and there are also some fun stereotypical island songs too.
Sounds like a good blend of both.

ph4ever wrote:YO FOURPLAY, ANGELBEECH, RHUMCHUM.....................are we ready???

Four Play wrote:

ph4ever wrote:YO FOURPLAY, ANGELBEECH, RHUMCHUM.....................are we ready???

Minus the boat this time - Dallas is the day after Memorial Day. I'd rather spend that time on the water than hauling out for a concert. Maybe I'll just bring a cooler and some beer.

aquaholic wrote:

Four Play wrote:

ph4ever wrote:YO FOURPLAY, ANGELBEECH, RHUMCHUM.....................are we ready???

Minus the boat this time - Dallas is the day after Memorial Day. I'd rather spend that time on the water than hauling out for a concert. Maybe I'll just bring a cooler and some beer.

beer(s)

Four Play wrote:

ph4ever wrote:YO FOURPLAY, ANGELBEECH, RHUMCHUM.....................are we ready???

Minus the boat this time - Dallas is the day after Memorial Day. I'd rather spend that time on the water than hauling out for a concert. Maybe I'll just bring a cooler and some beer.

Four Play wrote:

aquaholic wrote:

Four Play wrote:

ph4ever wrote:YO FOURPLAY, ANGELBEECH, RHUMCHUM.....................are we ready???

Minus the boat this time - Dallas is the day after Memorial Day. I'd rather spend that time on the water than hauling out for a concert. Maybe I'll just bring a cooler and some beer.

beer(s)

Some implying more than one - is FM not there to help you read today?

ph4ever wrote:May 14th is the day after Memorial day? I think I'm confused but It dosn't matter what you bring as long as you and the Mrs Come!!!

aquaholic wrote:27 cases of budweiser in the back seat and the cop stops ya.............

Four Play wrote:

ph4ever wrote:May 14th is the day after Memorial day? I think I'm confused but It dosn't matter what you bring as long as you and the Mrs Come!!!

aquaholic wrote:27 cases of budweiser in the back seat and the cop stops ya.............

I could've sworn I saw 5/31 somewhere...what can I say...I was drinking earlier