McAnally wins CMA for Musician of the Year

Once in a Lifetime

Nashville-based singer/songwriter Mac McAnally is best known as a member of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band and for writing such hits as Alabama's "Old Flame," but he has also been a recording artist in his own right since 1977. With "Once in a Lifetime," McAnally delivers social commentary with a sense of nostalgia and a biting sense of humor. In "Almost All Good," McAnally laments that we are "living in the misinformation age" in which ...

A.K.A. Nobody

Surely, the title of Mac MacAnally's new album drips with irony; if there's anyone who's never been a nobody, it's this brilliant songwriter, singer and guitarist. The Alabama-born musician has penned songs for Kenny Chesney ("Down the Road"), Alabama ("Old Flame") and Shenandoah ("Two Dozen Roses"), toured with Jimmy Buffett, sat in on studio dates with everyone from Linda Ronstadt and Lee Ann Womack to George Strait and George Jones, was honored ...

Down By The River

Mac McAnally has been in the music industry as a songwriter, producer, and studio musician since the 1970s, working with Alabama (he penned their hit,Old Flame), Jimmy Buffet (as part of his Coral Reefers band), Amy Grant, Dolly Parton and Roy Orbison. McAnally has recorded 11 albums of originals, which were unable to compete with the 20-something, pop-country singing, coifed performers popular today. That changed when he teamed with Kenny Chesney for their number one single, Down the Road. ...