 Discography -> Riddles in the Sand
Produced and Recorded by Jimmy Bowen for MCA Records The Coral Reefer Band - Jimmy Buffett - Guitar, Vocals Matt Betton - Drums, Saxophone Sam Clayton - Percussion Emory Gordy - Bass Robert Greenidge - Steel Drums Greg "Fingers" Taylor - Harmonica Mike Utley - Keyboards Reggie Young - Guitar John Jarvis - Synthesizer, Keyboards Billy Joe Walker - Guitar Larry Lee - Background Vocals Wendy Waldman - Background Vocals Thomas Flora - Background Vocals Mac McAnally - Background Vocals Recorded and Mixed at Sound Stage Studios 1st Engineers - Ron Treat - Basic Tracks and Overdubs - Steve Tillisch - Mixdown 2nd Engineers - Mark Coddington and Vicki Hicks Originally mastered at Masterfonics by Glenn Meadows Mixed and Mastered using the JVC Digital Audio Mastering System Photography by Jim Shea Drawings on the sleeve by Savannah Jane Buffett, Maura and Melanie Lyons Art Direction by Jeff Adamoff Very Speical Thanks to: Nashville - Johnny Dickinson, Charlie Allen, Will “Dr. Wheeeel” Jennings, “Dirt”Laner, Jesse Noble, Abbe Demontbreun and to the consistent nutrition experts Harp Townes, Luther’s Bar BQ, Mac’s Cafe and The Elliston Place Soda Shop At the Gulf - Dan Sweet, Kenny Wall, Greer and Brooke Radcliff and “Rusty” the Wonder Horse Out West - Howard Kaufman, Bobby Liberman and Nina Avramides-Berducat This album dedicated with much love to Jane Slagsvol Buffett, who over the years, has been and remains, the ultimate riddle in the sand. "Riddles in the Sand" “What goes around comes around" say wise men in bars. Any good artist feels compelled to change, if not doomed to change, and vary his art as much as he varies his life. Starting from the center, Buffett has shot off to a number of usual and unusual planets. Now in RIDDLES IN THE SAND we see him coming home not quite on A1A, but with the same richness of feeling that informed much of his earlier work. Years ago, down in Riviera Beach in southeast Texas, I saw some cowboys ride into town on horseback for a dinner of GULF shrimp AND oysters. If you were Superman you could have seen Key WESTERN off there in the distance. This album has a musical range expanding in an arc from Bob Wills to Bob Marley with the Gulf somehow always there: a low and high tidal range, sweet and piney like the Delta soil, Caribbean Islands white with coral dust, ladies as moist and sweet as a fresh broken conch. Rather than a return, Buffett is starting out from the center again, with a vast expansion both musically and emotionally. The music is a triumph for an American sound. - Jim Harrison
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