Records, releasing Simple Life that year. This section needs expansion with: Critical reception, awards & nominations, session work. He and Walt Aldridge co-wrote Ricky Van Shelton's 1987 single " Crime of Passion". Mac eventually signed with Geffen Records with two albums ( Nothin' but the Truth, which included the single "Minimum Love" which reached No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100, and Finish Lines) being issued in 19, respectively. McAnally continued to record even while writing for Buffett. However, he found success as a songwriter for Jimmy Buffett, in addition to co-writing Alabama's Number One hit " Old Flame". These latter two albums produced no chart singles. Side two is Joe South." Ī second album, No Problem Here, was issued in 1978, followed in 1980 by Cuttin' Corners on RCA Records. Reviewing it in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau said, "although it does often sound pat, as folk stoicism will in a post-folk context, the first side comes across pretty outspoken for a Mississippi singer-songwriter with royalties in the bank-the heroine of one song is a rape victim who murders both assailant and judge after the latter lets off the former. His self-titled debut album produced the single "It's a Crazy World" which reached No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100. The producers there encouraged him, and by 1977 he was signed to Ariola Records. During a session break, McAnally began to perform original material. From there, he went on to become a session musician in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. As a child, he began playing piano and singing in church at the Belmont First Baptist Church in Belmont, Mississippi, and by age fifteen, he had composed his first song. He has also produced for Sawyer Brown and Restless Heart, written several singles for other artists, and is a member of Jimmy Buffett's backing band, The Coral Reefer Band.īiography Early life and career His ninth chart entry came in late 2008-early 2009 as a guest vocalist on Kenny Chesney's cover of his 1990 single " Down the Road". Two of his singles were hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and six more on the Hot Country Songs charts. In his career, he has recorded ten studio albums and eight singles. ( / ˈ m æ k ən æ l iː/ born July 15, 1957), known professionally as Mac McAnally, is an American country music singer-songwriter, session musician, and record producer.
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