Mac McAnally

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Mac McAnally (born Lyman McAnally Jr., 1957, in Red Bay, Alabama, U.S.) is a musician, songwriter and record producer.

He scored his biggest single on the Billboard Top 40 pop chart in 1977 with the song "It's a Crazy World". In 1983, he near-missed the same chart with "Minimum Love". Since then, he has had success in the country music genre as a songwriter, session musician, and as a producer for the band Sawyer Brown.

He is currently a member of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band. Buffett has recorded a number of his songs. Buffet pays him great respect by highlighting his friendship and debuting McAnally's song "The City" on Buffet's wildly popular live album, "Feeding Fenzy."

Mac's only Top 40 country music single, "Back Where I Come From", was later recorded by Kenny Chesney on Chesney's Me and You album. Although Chesney's version of the song was never released, he often performs the song in concert.

[edit] Discography

• Mac McAnally
• No Problem Here
• Cuttin' Corners
• Finish Lines
• Simple Life
• Nothin' But the Truth
• Live And Learn
• Knots
• Word of Mouth
• Semi-True Stories

[edit] Singles

Year	Title	US Country	US Pop	Album
1977	"It's a Crazy World"	-	#37	Mac McAnally
1977	"Minimum Love"	-	-	Mac McAnally
1990	"Back Where I Come From"	#14	-	Simple Life
1990	"Down the Road"	#70	-	Simple Life
1992	"Live and Learn"	#62	-
1992	"The Trouble With Diamonds"	#72	-
1993	"Junk Cars"	#72	-

[edit] Singles written or co-written by McAnally

• Alabama
  • "Old Flame"

• Jimmy Buffet
  • "The City"

• David Allan Coe
  • "I'm Gonna Hurt Her on the Radio"

• Linda Davis
  • "Company Time"

• Sammy Kershaw
  • "Southbound"

• Sawyer Brown
  • "All These Years"
  • "Café on the Corner"
  • "Thank God For You"
  • "The Boys and Me"
  • "This Time"

• Ricky Van Shelton
  • "Crime of Passion"

• Shenandoah
  • "Two Dozen Roses"

• T. G. Sheppard
  • "You're My First Lady"