Album: Riddles In The Sand

Album Notes:

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
Sleeve -
Acoustic Guitar - Jimmy Buffett
Electric Guitar - Reggie Young
Electric and Acoustic Guitar - Billy Walker Jr.
Bass - Emory Gordy
Keyboards and Synthesizer - Michael Utley
Keyboards and Synthesizer - John Jarvis
Drums - Matt Betton
Steel Drums - Robert Greenidge
Percussion - Samuel Clayton
Harmonica - Greg ";Fingers"; Taylor
Background Vocals - Jimmy Buffett, Mac McAnally, Wendy Waldman, Thom
Flora, Larry Lee, Samuel Clayton
Mac McAnally appears courtesy of Geffen Records
Produced and Recorded by: Jimmy Bowen for Lynwood Production, Michael Utley and Tony Brown
Recorded and mixed at Sound Stage Studio
1st Engineers: Ron Treat - Basic Tracks and Overdubs, Steve Tillisch - Mixdown
2dn 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 Special Thanks to:
Nashville - Johnny Dickinson, Charlie Allen, Will ";Dr. Wheeeel"; Jennings, ";Dirt"; Lanier, Jessie Noble, Abbe Demontbreun and to the Consistent Nutrition Experts Hap Towned, Luthers' Bar BQ, Mac's Cafe and the Ellistio 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 is dedicated with much love to Jane Slagsvol Buffett, who over the years, has been and remains, the ultimate riddle in the sand.";