Mac McAnally to perform at Capitol
CLEARWATER — Due to overwhelming demand, Mac McAnally will perform two concerts in the Tampa Bay area in the coming weeks. McAnally will take the stage on Thursday, April 4, Mac McAnally will perform two concerts in the Tampa Bay area in the coming weeks due to high demand. The performances will be held on April 4 and 25 at the Bilheimer Capitol Theatre in Clearwater. McAnall's most recent album, "Once in a Lifetime," was produced by him and arranged for most of its material to be arranged around guitar and percussion. While many of the songs are new, he also included a few originals dating back to the early 2000s. His journey from being a shy, small-town kid from Mississippi to becoming a respected singer-songwriter began at a young age and was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007.
Published : 4 weeks ago by Tampa Bay Newspapers in Politics
CLEARWATER — Due to overwhelming demand, Mac McAnally will perform two concerts in the Tampa Bay area in the coming weeks. McAnally will take the stage on Thursday, April 4, 8 p.m.; and on Thursday, April 25, 8 p.m., at the Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, 405 Cleveland St., Clearwater.
For his most recent album, “Once in a Lifetime,” McAnally arranged most of the material around guitar and percussion — yet he acknowledges that several of its tracks outgrew that simple set-up. And while many of the songs are new, he chose to include a few originals dating back to the early 2000s that seemed like a good fit.
His journey traces a path from being a shy, small-town kid from Mississippi, to working as a teenage studio musician in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to becoming one of Nashville’s most respected singer-songwriters. “Once in a Lifetime” captures his musical vision.
“I generally write whatever comes to me,” McAnally said. “I’m not somebody who sits down and says, ‘I need to write a hit song,’ or this or that kind of song. I just follow whatever floats through my head.”
McAnally was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007. Two of the songs from “Once in a Lifetime” come from that era.
He co-wrote “Good Guys Win” for the 2006 film, “Hoot,” and the bluegrass-flavored “Brand New Broken Heart” comes from a 2007 demo session of a tune he recorded with his fellow studio musicians but never got around to pitching.