“A Very Special Evening with the members of Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band and Changes In Latitudes” (at Indian Ranch, Webster, MA.) on Friday June 26, 8:00 PM.

Join Coral Reefers Nadirah Shakoor and Doyle Grisham, currently on tour with Jimmy Buffett, appearing with Indian Ranch favorites “Changes In Latitudes” on Friday night June 26, for an evening celebrating the music of Jimmy Buffett.

Nadirah has just released her own CD, “Nod to the Storyteller”, a collection of her favorite Buffett tunes.

Doors open at 8:00. Tickets $20.00 available at IndianRanch.com and at the gate.

CMA’s reigning Musician of the Year and Coral Reefer Band member Mac McAnally made a surprise appearance on Tuesday when he joined Kenny Chesney on stage for Chesney’s “Austin City Limits” taping.

They played “Down The Road”, their recent number one hit collaboration, and “Back Where I Come From”.

“Any time you can put the focus on the songs, it’s a good thing,” Chesney says. “And to be able to do that with Mac… well, it just takes these songs to a whole other level. I was honored that he’d do this with us, and I hope we’ll get to see him out on the road when he can get away from his own stuff.”

The show will air sometime in early Fall on PBS.

Read more at ChesneyWorld.

Kenny Chesney’s upcoming new album, “Lucky Old Sun”, will include a version of Coral Reefer Mac McAnally’s “Down The Road”. Mac also sings on the track, according to the listing at Amazon.com.

You can watch Mac’s music video for “Down The Road” from 1994 in our Video Gallery.

This isn’t the first time that Chesney has recorded a McAnally song. A perennial favorite on tour, “Back Where I Come From” was recorded for Chesney’s 1996 album “Me And You”, and also appeared as a live track on the 2000 “Greatest Hits” album.

You can pre-order “Lucky Old Sun” now at Amazon.com by clicking here.

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The latest album from Little Feat entitled “Join The Band” hits stores today. The album contains several guests, including Buffett lending his vocals on “Champion of the World” and “Time Loves A Hero”. Other guests on the album include Dave Matthews, Bob Seger, Brad Paisley, Vince Gill, Brooks and Dunn, and Emmylou Harris.

Get your copy of Join The Band now!

After Kenny Chesney’s 2008 Poets & Pirates tour wraps up in September, he’ll head down to the islands with his Jimmy Buffett Signature Edition Martin guitar to write songs for his next album:

When the Poets & Pirates Tour, which hits Turner Field on Sunday, wraps in September, Chesney will grab his Jimmy Buffett Signature Edition Martin guitar — a gift from Buffett himself — and seek songwriting inspiration aboard his boat in the near-translucent waters of the Virgin Islands.

While plans are already in the works for next year’s tour, Chesney has his sights set on that upcoming songwriting sabbatical, crafting material with that guitar given by equally notorious island aficionado Buffett.

“Jimmy’s a great songwriter, so I’ll try to get whatever energy I can from it,” Chesney says with a laugh.