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From Margaritaville.com: A brand new studio album, named for an old colonial era train station/hotel Jimmy ran across in Timbuktu, Mali during a trip to the “Festival In The Desert,” will feature Summerzcool, A Lot To Drink About, Surfing In a Hurricane and 9 other new songs!

1. Nobody From Nowhere
2. Wings
3. Big Top
4. Beautiful Swimmers
5. Turn Up The Heat and Chill The Rose
6. Summerzcool
7. Rhumba Man
8. We Learned To Be Cool From You
9. Surfing In a Hurricane
10. Life Short Call Now
11. Buffet Hotel
12. A Lot To Drink About

The title track has a strong West African influence and was conceived during that same trip to Mali for the music festival. “It was one of the best musical experiences of my life,” said Jimmy. The Buffet Hotel was the venue for the music scene that exploded in Mali after its independence in 1960.

In addition to the Coral Reefer Band, the album also includes guest artists Sonny Landreth, Jake Shimabukuro, Cedric Burnside, Steve “Lightnin’” Malcome and Toumani Diabate. Produced by Mike Utley and Mac McAnally, the release also features a 24-page booklet with lyrics, stories behind the song, and how Jimmy went to West Africa looking for stories, and returned with an album. “…Stories are still the things good songs are made of,” said Jimmy.

Buffet Hotel is available for pre-order at MailboatRecords.com, and will be available everywhere on December 8th! It is also available for pre-order at Amazon.com.

I have to admit... while I really did not like Surfing in A Hurricane at all, I really, really like Summerzcool.

I also enjoyed A Lot to Drink About. We'll have to see how the rest of it goes, won't we?

Coooool!

cover art from Amazon:

chippewa wrote:cover art from Amazon:

Sweet!

Now you all know what to get me for my birthday on the 7th!

Snowparrot wrote:Now you all know what to get me for my birthday on the 7th!

And for mine on the 25th.

any guesses as to whether there will be a hidden track or video on the cd?

VERY exciting!!!! I can't wait to get it!

This should be good!

Wondering if this is all studio or a mix of live and studio. I think there's at least 5 songs nobody (from nowhere) has not heard before?

They did say the lyrics will be in the liner notes!

Also wondering... should the e in Chill the Rosé go forward or backward?

Oh yes! I'm so glad Life Short Call Now is on the new CD. Jimmy must have recorded that one a while back...he was going to do that one at the Aspen Show back when the snow storm hit a couple of years ago. It was on the setlist that Hippolyte got.

Here are the lyrics from Bruce Cockburn's album of the same name --familiar lyrics to live by:

Life Short Call Now

You've no idea how I long
For even one loving caress
For you to step into my heart
Without deception or duress

Life short-call now
Billboards promise paradise
And tattoos "done while you wait"
Possible futures all laid out
On the sweeping curve of the interstate
On the sweeping curve of the interstate

Got no city, got no land
Got no lover, got no wife
How many ways to say goodbye
Can one man fit in a nomad life?
One man fit in a nomad life?

Life short-call now
Life short-call now
Life short-call now
Life short-call now

Piano music bridge

Lone car waxes, then it wanes
Leaves only voices in the hall
And in the room next door to mine
The bed is banging on the wall
The bed is banging on my wall

You've no idea how I long
For even one loving caress
For you to step into my heart
Without deception or duress
Without deception or duress

Life short-call now
Life short-call now
Life short-call now
Life short-call now
yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah

Not very good audio and the words are hard to hear without knowing the lyrics.

Wings is a Mark "EFFIN" Chestnutt song...

I can't imagine Jimmy doing that ONE. Mark Chestnutt recorded Todd Snider's TROUBLE!

“Trouble”
from the 1995 album Wings

Covering Todd Snider. The coolest thing that Mark Chesnutt has ever done. “A woman like you walks in a place like this and you can almost hear the promises break.”

Yee haw! I'd rather hear Jimmy do Trouble.

Just thinking...I can see Jimmy doing Wendy Waldman's WINGS.
Folky...
http://soundcloud.com/penmusicgroup/set ... dy-waldman
Lots of good stuff to listen to at that site.

Wino you know wrote:

Snowparrot wrote:Now you all know what to get me for my birthday on the 7th!

And for mine on the 25th.

And mine on the 12th!!!

Can't wait!!!

Counting the days

conched wrote:Wings is a Mark "EFFIN" Chestnutt song...

I can't imagine Jimmy doing that ONE. Mark Chestnutt recorded Todd Snider's TROUBLE!

“Trouble”
from the 1995 album Wings

Covering Todd Snider. The coolest thing that Mark Chesnutt has ever done. “A woman like you walks in a place like this and you can almost hear the promises break.”

Yee haw! I'd rather hear Jimmy do Trouble.

<---------------Loves Todd Snider's Trouble!!!

<---------Loves Todd Snider....period!

Hurry up, December 8th!

VanillaGrl wrote:
<---------------Loves Todd Snider's Trouble!!!

<---------Loves Todd Snider....period!

I think you're an alright guy! (((KK)))

I can't wait for the booklet and NEW music. Happy Birthday EARLY, y'all!

Info also on mailboatrecords.com

http://www.mailboatstore.com/product_in ... ucts_id=59

"Buffet Hotel" contains 12 great new songs, and also includes a 24-page booklet printed on recycled paper. The CD was influenced by a trip to the West African “Festival In The Desert,” a music event that takes place annually near Timbuktu. It was in Bamako that Jimmy discovered Buffet Hotel, an old colonial era train station/hotel, which was where the music scene flourished in Mali in the 60’s. This collection includes a few songs that Jimmy premiered during the 2009 summer tour, including "Summerzcool" and "A Lot To Drink About." Guest artists on the album include Sonny Landreth, Jake Shimabukuro, Cedric Burnside, Steve "Lightnin'" Malcolm and Toumani Diabate, and was produced by long-time Coral Reefers Mike Utley and Mac McAnally.