La Vie Dansante By: Jimmy Buffett, Michael Utley, Will Jennings 1984 [The Dancing Life] They can come take it all away Break your heart by the light of day Drown your love in a distant bay So lonely See the ships heading for the rocks See the time melting off of the clocks There's a light shatters all the locks And saves me It saves me That's why I wander and follow La Vie Dansante On the night wind that takes me just where I want That's all I want La Vie Dansante Why don't you wander and follow La Vie Dansante On the night wind that takes you just where you want That's all you want La Vie Dansante Miss the beat if you close your eyes Every night wears a new disguise And I live when a new surprise surrenders Feel it all with a willing heart Every stop is a place to start If you know how to play the part with feeling I play with feelings That's why I wander and follow La Vie Dansante On the night wind that takes me just where I want That's all I want La Vie Dansante Why don't you wander and follow La Vie Dansante On the night wind that takes you just where you want That's all you want La Vie Dansante That's why we wander and follow La Vie Dansante On the night wind that takes us just where we want That's all we want La Vie Dansante Why don't you wander and follow the dancing life On the night wind that takes you just where you want That's all you want La Vie Dansante That's why we wander and follow La Vie Dansante On the night wind that takes us just where we want That's all we want La Vie Dansante La la la la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la la la That's all we want... @ALBUM NOTES: Back Cover - "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 A-1A, 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 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."