But because I grew up in church, I consider David to be the original singer-songwriter and I think I could at least play along with him to the point where he wouldn’t kill me with a slingshot. Q: Who i s an artist from history you would have loved to record a song with? Obviously if you don’t get ahold of them the dominoes could fall in a bad way.
If you can channel the energy that comes from nerves you can do things you couldn’t do without them. Any recording scenario generates some nerves because it’s somebody’s dreams you’re trying to make come true. You don’t want the bronco to be an easy ride because that’s sort of self-defeating - you want him to buck you a little bit. I’m not afraid of nerves I just try to channel them, you know, you try to ride them like a bronco in a rodeo. Q: Whe n was the last time you got nervous in a recording studio? We didn’t actually work until after dark that night and I got calmed down a little bit by then. and nobody else was there even though the recording session was scheduled to start at noon. I didn’t really realize that Muscle Shoals was as laid back a place as it is because I got there at about 1:30 p.m. I drove seriously illegally fast back to Muscle Shoals. Q: Di d you get into any trouble for being late to that recording session?
(Note: The sessions McAnally played on would appear on Williams’ 1977 album “One Night Stands.”) So I was already going to be late to my first session.
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The guy in Birmingham was a stickler on the rules and he made me watch a whole 45-minute movie about going into the union before he’d let me sign my paper. Birmingham is a couple hours away from Muscle Shoals and didn’t open until 10 a.m. They asked me if I could drive to Birmingham and join the union and be back to Muscle Shoals by 10 a.m. They called me because I was an acoustic guitar player and they didn’t have a dedicated acoustic player in Muscle Shoals. Hank was among the first of the country stuff that happened down in Muscle Shoals (Alabama) - it was primarily an R&B town. My first big album I played on was a Hank Williams Jr. Q: Wh o was the first big artist you worked with? Chet took me under his wing a little bit when I first came to Nashville and if I had 100 of these things I wouldn’t consider myself in his league. He was the guitar hero of my father and was the reason my dad put me into guitar lessons in the beginning. Q: How does it feel to have won the CMA's musician of the year award nearly as many times as Chet Atkins?Ĭhet is a legend and he’s a personal hero of mine. I don’t have it in me to brag about anything, but the fact that the same people that do what I do are who vote on this means that at least somebody thinks that there’s some merit in how I go about my business. I expect someone to come out and tell me that there’s been a miscount and I’m going to have to return all seven. Q: Has it reached the point where you expect to get a CMA Award nomination every year?Ībsolutely not. “If I write something that sounds like it may be a hit, I call one of my friends who already has a personal trainer,” McAnally laughed. He talked about his career, still getting nervous in the recording studio, tricking his daughters into being backup singers and why he gives away all prospective hit songs he writes to other artists. We caught up with McAnally over the phone on Oct. and Jimmy Buffett he’s been a full-time member of Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band for nearly 20 years. The 58-year-old artist has released 13 solo albums since 1977 and has written songs for A-list acts including Kenny Chesney, Alabama, Hank Williams Jr. His latest record, “AKA Nobody,” was released this year.
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1 Billboard country hits, winning seven Country Music Association Awards, an induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and a regular gig with one of the most successful touring acts in history, Mac McAnally still considers himself a “nobody.”Īt this week’s 2015 CMA Awards, McAnally is nominated for musician of the year, a category he’s won for seven years running. Despite a 40-year musical career that’s included penning four No.
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