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Heath McAnally, MD, MSPH is a board-certified anesthesiologist and pain medicine physician who is committed to helping the people of southcentral Alaska improve their health in every way. He received both a Master's degree in Public Health, and his M.D. From the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and completed his internship. Mac McAnally is a highly-decorated and prolific multi-instrumentalist, producer, songwriter, and artist. He tours with Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band, plays on countless sessions in Nashville and Muscle Shoals, and produces a number of independent artists, too.

'Down the Road' is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Mac McAnally. McAnally has charted with the song on two separate occasions. The first of these two versions was released as the second single from his 1990 album Simple Life, and was a minor chart single for him that year. Eighteen years later, McAnally re-recorded the song as a duet with Kenny Chesney on Chesney's 2008 album Lucky Old Sun. This rendition is also McAnally's highest charting country hit, having reached Number One in February 2009.

Content[edit]

'Down the Road' is a mid-tempo ballad. In it, the male narrator describes his childhood love interest — a girl who lives down the road from him. Eventually, the narrator proposes to marry her, only to find out the expectations her parents have of him.

In the second verse, the narrator is now an adult, and his daughter has a love interest who lives down the road. He then explains that he has the same expectations that the parents in the first verse had, but he will still let her go down the road.

According to Country Weekly magazine, McAnally was inspired to write the song one Christmas morning after thinking about what his two daughters' lives would be like in the future (he has since had a third).^[2]

Mac McAnally version[edit]

Mac McAnally's original version is the second single from his 1990 album Simple Life, his only album for Warner Bros. Records. It peaked at No. 70 on the Hot Country Songs charts. McAnally later released it on his 1994 album Knots.

Music video[edit]

McAnally's rendition also features a music video, directed by John Lloyd Miller. It features McAnally performing the song on a porch while playing electric guitar.

Chart positions[edit]

Kenny Chesney version[edit]

In 2008, Kenny Chesney covered the song on his album Lucky Old Sun. Chesney's version features guest vocals from McAnally, who sings the second verse and chorus. Unlike McAnally's original which is accompanied by electric guitar, Chesney's rendition is more acoustic in nature, featuring only accompaniment from two steel-string acoustic guitars and congas. According to McAnally, the song 'was not supposed to be a duet', but he agreed to record it as a duet on Chesney's album.^[2] Chesney and McAnally were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals on December 2, 2009.^[5]

Composition[edit]

The Chesney and McAnally duet version is set in cut time in the key of E major. It has a moderate tempo and a main chord pattern of E-B-A-B. Chesney and McAnally's vocals range from B3-C♯5.^[6]

Reception[edit]

Critical[edit]

Chesney's rendition received a 'thumbs-up' rating from The 9513. Critic Jim Malec said that the song 'provid[ed] him a comfortable pocket from which he can weave a tale' and added, 'Down The Road' brings together the best of Chesney with the best of McAnally, a songwriter whose greatest strength is his ability to breath [sic] life into characters that seem unquestionably real, and which help us discuss life's essential and often bittersweet truths.' He also said that it was Chesney's 'best vocal performance in years'.^[7] Jacob Crogie of 411 Mania gave the Chesney version a four-out-of-five rating, saying 'This re-recording is a classic example of good country! It's got some solid musicality and is acoustic based to suit the subject matter. McAnally's writing provides solid, believable, sympathetic characters which allows the listener to connect to the song emotionally.'^[8]

Chart positions[edit]

Chesney's version of the song made its chart debut at number 59 on the country charts dated for November 1, 2008. It fell from the charts the next week, then re-entered at number 38 for the week of November 15. It is McAnally's second Top 40 country chart entry, eighteen years after his previous one, the number 14 'Back Where I Come From' in 1990. The duet version reached number one on the country chart dated for February 28, 2009, giving Chesney his sixteenth Number One and McAnally his first, and to date, only Number One.

Year-end charts[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 261. ISBN0-89820-177-2.
2. ^ ^abConaway, Alanna (April 20, 2009). 'Story Behind the Song: The Gift of Christmas Past'. Country Weekly. 16 (10): 28.
3. ^'Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 1283.' RPM. Library and Archives Canada. August 4, 1990. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
4. ^'Mac McAnally Chart History (Hot Country Songs)'. Billboard.
5. ^'The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards Nominees List'Archived 2009-12-03 at WebCite, Grammy.com, December 2, 2009
6. ^''Down the Road' sheet music'. Musicnotes.com. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
7. ^Malec, Jim (November 4, 2008). 'Kenny Chesney & Mac McAnally - 'Down the Road''. The 9513. Archived from the original on February 4, 2009. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
8. ^Crogie, Jacob (December 10, 2008). 'The Singles Guy 12.10.08: I'm Bored, I'm Bored, Come On Let's Get High!'. 411 Mania. Retrieved December 12, 2008.
9. ^'Kenny Chesney Chart History (Hot Country Songs)'. Billboard.
10. ^'Kenny Chesney Chart History (Hot 100)'. Billboard.
11. ^'Kenny Chesney Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)'. Billboard.
12. ^'Best of 2009: Country Songs'. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved December 13, 2009.

Lyman Corbitt McAnally Jr. (/ˈmækənæliː/; born July 15, 1957), known professionally as Mac McAnally, is an American country music singer-songwriter, session musician and record producer. In his career, he has recorded ten studio albums and eight singles. Two of his singles were hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and six more on the Hot Country Songs charts.

His ninth chart entry came in late 2008-early 2009 as a guest vocalist on Kenny Chesney's Number One cover of his 1990 single 'Down the Road'; it is McAnally's only chart-topper as an artist. 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.

Biography[edit]

Early life and career[edit]

McAnally was born in Red Bay, AL. He began playing piano and singing in church at the Belmont First Baptist Church in Belmont, Mississippi as a child, and by age fifteen, he had composed his first song.^[2] From there, he went on to become a session musician in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. During a session break, McAnally began to perform original material. The producers there encouraged him, and by 1977 he was signed to Ariola Records. His self-titled debut album produced the single 'It's a Crazy World' which reached No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[2] 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. Side two is Joe South.'^[3]

A second album, No Problem Here, was issued in 1978, followed in 1980 by Cuttin' Corners on RCA Records. These latter two albums produced no chart singles. However, he found success as a songwriter for Jimmy Buffett, in addition to co-writing Alabama's Number One hit 'Old Flame'.^[2]

McAnally continued to record even while writing for Buffett. 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 1983 and 1988, respectively. He and Walt Aldridge co-wrote Ricky Van Shelton's 1987 single 'Crime of Passion'.^[2]

1990s and 2000s[edit]

In 1990, McAnally signed to Warner Bros. Records, releasing Simple Life that year. This album produced his first Top 40 country hit in the No. 14 'Back Where I Come From.' Kenny Chesney would also record McAnally's 'Back Where I Come From' for his 1996 album Me and You. Also in 1990, Steve Wariner released a McAnally co-write, the Top Ten hit 'Precious Thing.'^[2] The only other single from Simple Life was the No. 70 'Down the Road', and by year's end, he exited Warner Bros.' roster.

McAnally's seventh studio album, Live and Learn, followed in 1992, producing three low-charting singles. Also that year, he produced Sawyer Brown's album The Dirt Road, and continued to produce almost all of their subsequent albums, in addition to co-writing several of the band's singles between then and the late 1990s, including the Number One 'Thank God for You', as well as the Top Five hits 'All These Years', 'Cafe on the Corner', 'The Boys and Me', and 'This Time'. His second and final release for MCA, 1994's Knots, failed to produce any chart singles, although Linda Davis charted that year with 'Company Time', which he wrote. Throughout the 1990s, McAnally also found work as a session musician, playing guitar on several artists' albums, in addition to joining Buffett's road band.

It was not until 1999, when he signed to DreamWorks Records Nashville, that McAnally released his next album.^[2] This album, Word of Mouth, also failed to produce any singles. Another album, Semi-True Stories, followed in 2004 on Mailboat Records, the same label to which Buffett is signed. Also in 2004, McAnally and Kyle Lehning produced Restless Heart's reunion album Still Restless, which included covers of three McAnally songs. In 2008, McAnally was awarded Musician of the Year by the Country Music Association. Also in 2008, he participated in the production of the album Psalngs,^[4] the debut release of Canadian musician John Lefebvre.

Kenny Chesney covered McAnally's 1990 single 'Down the Road' on his 2008 album Lucky Old Sun, as a duet with McAnally. This rendition, released in late 2008 as its second single, became McAnally's first Top 40 country hit since 'Back Where I Come From' in 1990. In February 2009, it became his first Number One as a singer. One month later, McAnally signed to Show Dog Nashville, a label owned by Toby Keith.^[5] His first single release for the label is 'You First'. His first album for the label, Down by the River, debuted at No. 56 on the Top Country Albums chart, becoming his first chart entry on that chart since 1990.

Does Mac Mcanally Have Children

In 2011, Mac McAnally released the new album Live in Muscle Shoals on Mailboat Records, recorded in July 2010 at the W. C. Handy Music Festival in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Appearing with him were the Coral Reefer Band, bassist Jim Mayer and drummer Roger Guth.^[6]

Awards and nominations[edit]

Discography[edit]

Albums[edit]

Singles[edit]

Mac Mcanally Children

Guest singles[edit]

Composition[edit]

The Chesney and McAnally duet version is set in cut time in the key of E major. It has a moderate tempo and a main chord pattern of E-B-A-B. Chesney and McAnally's vocals range from B3-C♯5.^[6]

Reception[edit]

Critical[edit]

Chesney's rendition received a 'thumbs-up' rating from The 9513. Critic Jim Malec said that the song 'provid[ed] him a comfortable pocket from which he can weave a tale' and added, 'Down The Road' brings together the best of Chesney with the best of McAnally, a songwriter whose greatest strength is his ability to breath [sic] life into characters that seem unquestionably real, and which help us discuss life's essential and often bittersweet truths.' He also said that it was Chesney's 'best vocal performance in years'.^[7] Jacob Crogie of 411 Mania gave the Chesney version a four-out-of-five rating, saying 'This re-recording is a classic example of good country! It's got some solid musicality and is acoustic based to suit the subject matter. McAnally's writing provides solid, believable, sympathetic characters which allows the listener to connect to the song emotionally.'^[8]

Chart positions[edit]

Chesney's version of the song made its chart debut at number 59 on the country charts dated for November 1, 2008. It fell from the charts the next week, then re-entered at number 38 for the week of November 15. It is McAnally's second Top 40 country chart entry, eighteen years after his previous one, the number 14 'Back Where I Come From' in 1990. The duet version reached number one on the country chart dated for February 28, 2009, giving Chesney his sixteenth Number One and McAnally his first, and to date, only Number One.

Year-end charts[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 261. ISBN0-89820-177-2.
2. ^ ^abConaway, Alanna (April 20, 2009). 'Story Behind the Song: The Gift of Christmas Past'. Country Weekly. 16 (10): 28.
3. ^'Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 1283.' RPM. Library and Archives Canada. August 4, 1990. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
4. ^'Mac McAnally Chart History (Hot Country Songs)'. Billboard.
5. ^'The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards Nominees List'Archived 2009-12-03 at WebCite, Grammy.com, December 2, 2009
6. ^''Down the Road' sheet music'. Musicnotes.com. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
7. ^Malec, Jim (November 4, 2008). 'Kenny Chesney & Mac McAnally - 'Down the Road''. The 9513. Archived from the original on February 4, 2009. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
8. ^Crogie, Jacob (December 10, 2008). 'The Singles Guy 12.10.08: I'm Bored, I'm Bored, Come On Let's Get High!'. 411 Mania. Retrieved December 12, 2008.
9. ^'Kenny Chesney Chart History (Hot Country Songs)'. Billboard.
10. ^'Kenny Chesney Chart History (Hot 100)'. Billboard.
11. ^'Kenny Chesney Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)'. Billboard.
12. ^'Best of 2009: Country Songs'. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved December 13, 2009.

Lyman Corbitt McAnally Jr. (/ˈmækənæliː/; born July 15, 1957), known professionally as Mac McAnally, is an American country music singer-songwriter, session musician and record producer. In his career, he has recorded ten studio albums and eight singles. Two of his singles were hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and six more on the Hot Country Songs charts.

His ninth chart entry came in late 2008-early 2009 as a guest vocalist on Kenny Chesney's Number One cover of his 1990 single 'Down the Road'; it is McAnally's only chart-topper as an artist. 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.

Biography[edit]

Early life and career[edit]

McAnally was born in Red Bay, AL. He began playing piano and singing in church at the Belmont First Baptist Church in Belmont, Mississippi as a child, and by age fifteen, he had composed his first song.^[2] From there, he went on to become a session musician in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. During a session break, McAnally began to perform original material. The producers there encouraged him, and by 1977 he was signed to Ariola Records. His self-titled debut album produced the single 'It's a Crazy World' which reached No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[2] 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. Side two is Joe South.'^[3]

A second album, No Problem Here, was issued in 1978, followed in 1980 by Cuttin' Corners on RCA Records. These latter two albums produced no chart singles. However, he found success as a songwriter for Jimmy Buffett, in addition to co-writing Alabama's Number One hit 'Old Flame'.^[2]

McAnally continued to record even while writing for Buffett. 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 1983 and 1988, respectively. He and Walt Aldridge co-wrote Ricky Van Shelton's 1987 single 'Crime of Passion'.^[2]

1990s and 2000s[edit]

In 1990, McAnally signed to Warner Bros. Records, releasing Simple Life that year. This album produced his first Top 40 country hit in the No. 14 'Back Where I Come From.' Kenny Chesney would also record McAnally's 'Back Where I Come From' for his 1996 album Me and You. Also in 1990, Steve Wariner released a McAnally co-write, the Top Ten hit 'Precious Thing.'^[2] The only other single from Simple Life was the No. 70 'Down the Road', and by year's end, he exited Warner Bros.' roster.

McAnally's seventh studio album, Live and Learn, followed in 1992, producing three low-charting singles. Also that year, he produced Sawyer Brown's album The Dirt Road, and continued to produce almost all of their subsequent albums, in addition to co-writing several of the band's singles between then and the late 1990s, including the Number One 'Thank God for You', as well as the Top Five hits 'All These Years', 'Cafe on the Corner', 'The Boys and Me', and 'This Time'. His second and final release for MCA, 1994's Knots, failed to produce any chart singles, although Linda Davis charted that year with 'Company Time', which he wrote. Throughout the 1990s, McAnally also found work as a session musician, playing guitar on several artists' albums, in addition to joining Buffett's road band.

It was not until 1999, when he signed to DreamWorks Records Nashville, that McAnally released his next album.^[2] This album, Word of Mouth, also failed to produce any singles. Another album, Semi-True Stories, followed in 2004 on Mailboat Records, the same label to which Buffett is signed. Also in 2004, McAnally and Kyle Lehning produced Restless Heart's reunion album Still Restless, which included covers of three McAnally songs. In 2008, McAnally was awarded Musician of the Year by the Country Music Association. Also in 2008, he participated in the production of the album Psalngs,^[4] the debut release of Canadian musician John Lefebvre.

Kenny Chesney covered McAnally's 1990 single 'Down the Road' on his 2008 album Lucky Old Sun, as a duet with McAnally. This rendition, released in late 2008 as its second single, became McAnally's first Top 40 country hit since 'Back Where I Come From' in 1990. In February 2009, it became his first Number One as a singer. One month later, McAnally signed to Show Dog Nashville, a label owned by Toby Keith.^[5] His first single release for the label is 'You First'. His first album for the label, Down by the River, debuted at No. 56 on the Top Country Albums chart, becoming his first chart entry on that chart since 1990.

Does Mac Mcanally Have Children

In 2011, Mac McAnally released the new album Live in Muscle Shoals on Mailboat Records, recorded in July 2010 at the W. C. Handy Music Festival in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Appearing with him were the Coral Reefer Band, bassist Jim Mayer and drummer Roger Guth.^[6]

Awards and nominations[edit]

Discography[edit]

Albums[edit]

Singles[edit]

Mac Mcanally Children

Guest singles[edit]

Music videos[edit]

Songs written or co-written by Mac McAnally[edit]

Mac Mcanally Kids

Mac Mcanally Kids

References[edit]

1. ^Ammerman, Josh. 'Mac McAnally: A Biography'. The Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project of Starkville High School. Archived from the original on January 18, 2000. Retrieved February 8, 2008.
2. ^ ^abcdefgAnkeny, Jason. 'Mac McAnally biography'. Allmusic. Retrieved February 8, 2008.
3. ^Christgau, Robert (1981). 'Consumer Guide '70s: M'. Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN089919026X. Retrieved March 7, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
4. ^'Press for Psalngs.com'. Press.Psalngs.com. Archived from Press.Psalngs.com the original Check |url= value (help) on August 25, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
5. ^Bjorke, Matt (March 1, 2009). 'Mac McAnally Signs with Show Dog Records'. Roughstock. Archived from the original on March 18, 2009. Retrieved March 27, 2009.
6. ^'CMT : News : Mac McAnally Reprises Career in Live in Muscle Shoals'. Country Music Television. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
7. ^'Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame'. nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
8. ^Whitburn, Joel (2007). Joel Whitburn Presents Billboard Top Adult Songs, 1961–2006. p. 181. ISBN9780898201697. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
9. ^'Single Reviews'(PDF). Billboard. May 1, 1993.
10. ^'CMT : Videos : Mac McAnally : Not That Long Ago'. Country Music Television. Retrieved October 14, 2011.
11. ^Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame