Mac McAnally, Coral Reefer Band: "I'm LIVING a 'BONUS ROUND' NOW..."
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- On this Mac McAnally Interview: Getting his start singing & playing piano in the Baptist Church in small town Mississippi, and then suddenly playing honky-tonks... at age 13! The serendipity of how his first record got made, at age 17 because the studio artist booked for the day never showed up. His affinity for Muscle Shoals, music as “joyful noise” & why “joy records as well as sharps & flats”... Playing with Jimmy Buffet (GREAT story), Levon Helm, Roy Orbison, George Straight, Hank Jr., Keith Whitley… Living in his “bonus round,” a horrible business contract story, the backstory of tracks on Once In A Lifetime, food, friends, family, music and more. AWESOME convo!
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Mac McAnally, is a singer, songwriter, session musician & producer closely affiliated with the Muscle Shoals scene. Mac’s been inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, he’s won Musician of the Year for the Country Music Association (10x), and he just released his 15th LP, Once in A Lifetime. He has written or co-written several #1 Billboard Country Hits and dozens of other very successful hit songs. As a sideman he has played on HUNDREDS of records for major artists, and has produced numerous records. He’s a long time member of Jimmy Buffett's band, The Coral Reefer Band.
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Take 2. Hope I can get this. So much to say about it all! Play it and listen!
Super - Take 3 always works!
Mac was like our great ful dead in the Shoals. Many manny times ,MAC ,WOULD PROVIDE US WITH HIS MUSIC! ITS TOO BAD THAT JIMMY IS GONE
Thank you. Very excellent listening.I had no Idea you did all this... .Id6love to see that Martin. This has been fun. I could go on and on.
Good John Prine for sure
Mac is just AWESOME!! I hope he continues the Coral Reefer band and sings on behalf of the late Jimmy who we will miss dearly…
Thank you for listening @sailorman8590! 🎉🔥😇
Mac is the logical successor to Jimmy. I think Jimmy would certainly approve.
I can see why he and Jimmy were friends. Great guy.
Super talented performer, and Mac is much, much loved by all Parrotheads as an invaluable and indispensable member of the Coral Reefer Band. Keep rocking, Mac and RIP Jimmy Buffett.
Thank you for listening @JHargis68! 🎉🔥😇
the reason Mac’s stories are so heart warming is because that’s the kind of man he is and and that’s the ways he looks at life.
As a Parrot head, I had known Mac for his work with Jimmy...but have just in the last two years (perhaps because of his humility and non-self promoting attitude) learned how prolific his career is and am totally blown away at the songs he had wrote that other artists made famous and the cavalcade of stars he worked with. His work is phenomenal! Thank you Mac! 😊
Thank you for listening @jeffpitzer8521! 🎉🔥😇
You oughta listen to his 1978 album No Problem Here.. we’re having a Funeral!!
I have met Mac a couple of times. He is truly one of the nicest people I have even met not because is is talented and famous but because he does have a big heart and loves his fans. After one of his shows he waited in the lobby and met everyone who came to the show.
Thanks @philphillips4230, Rock on! 🎸🙌🏻🔥🎶
This man talked to me for 45min at a preshow party in North Carolina. Such an amazingly sweet man!!
I’d talk to ya for 45 minutes as well. And I’m also a nice man. 👨
How can you not love everything about this man!
Imagine living in a house without a TV and your Mom and the neighbors get together play music at night. Sounds like Heaven
Sure does...! Glad you enjoyed the interview @robertgoodnow5069, and thanks for listening 💥 🎶 🎸 !
I'm from Belmont myself and pick a little guitar also... He's definitely a hometown hero and an exceptional example of southern small town etiquette. Much respect for him!
Thank you for listening @danielgattis2400! 🎉🔥😇
Saw Mac at Fulton Chapel at ole miss as a student. He was solo and I was fatigued. When I walked out of the chapel, I recall thinking 'everything thing is gonna be okay '. It was such a beautiful performance and sincere sharing of love. A moment of change as regarding to what's this 'life' thing about. Clearly the life thing question was quite a bit answered by this amazing human. Seriously grateful is the spot we reside in due to this guy and his offerings. What a gift he is.
That was cool, thank you for sharing this Michael... all the best, CG
I didn’t realize It’s my job was Mac’s. From my favorite Buffet album.
Oh my gosh, what a pleasure to hear this man tell his stories, and the more you hear the more you know why he is where he is now! You can certainly see what JB saw in him, I'm sure Jimmy adored his honesty and talent! He has played with all those great singers.. oh my gosh, Keith Whitley's songs.. . Hank Jr....then, Whiskey Lullaby, and all those singers at Key West together, WOW!! This is a fantastic interview! George Strait... Kenny... George Jones, Roy Orbison, the list is endless. A joyful noise from Muscle Shoals!
Glad you enjoyed the interview @janicemotsinger5807, and thanks for listening 💥 🎶 🎸 !
Seeing Jimmy Buffett in concert on the beach filled my music bucket list. I had hoped for a smaller crowd and an umbrella in my drink, but that was the most fun I could ever have at any concert.
What an amazing man and talent. Like a lot of people I became aware of Mac because of his association with JB, but his talent was always something that made me wonder why he was a sideman. His story is truly crazy. His charm and humility is something to behold. Love his stories about his family and upbringing. I hope he continues and as a side gig maybe continues to keep the spirit of Jimmy going. Literally the universe ordained him to play.
Thank you for listening @devangel3614! 🎉🔥😇
I ran across this interview/podcast and all I can say is, "Wow!" My knowledge of Mac was only from digging into Jimmy Buffett's catalog after his death earlier this month. I knew he surrounded himself with great people/musicians, and Mac is just 100% proof of that. He's so down to earth and honest; humble, and yet one hell of a musician! What I'm learning about songwriters is that they're excellent storytellers. Mac is no slouch, that's for sure. And that has to be what brought him and Jimmy Buffett together. It was just meant to be. Thanks for a great interview, and for opening up my mind a little more.
Thanks for your kind words @baham9217 and glad you enjoyed this 👍🏻🎸♫
Mac is a fantastic musician and man. You can tell what kind of guy he is by the way Jimmy always spoke so glowingly of him on stage. He is so accomplished and even more humble.
I'm from MS about an hour south of Belmont and u didn't know about Mac until I told my dad I was going to see JB back in 2010. Dad was excited about me seeing Mac more than JB. My dad was a huge music lover, but he loved John Prine more than anything. I grew up with him playing the guitar and singing all the john Prine songs. I learned then that Mac was another artist that he loved almost as much as he loved John Prine. Thank you, Mac, for being an inspiration to my dad and sharing these amazing memories with us. And thank you for your part in so many timeless songs by our our most loved artist. I'm sure you helped make the what they are.
Thank you for listening @lorismith9102! 🎉🔥😇
My grandaddy was from outside of Iron City, Tennessee!!! You don't know 😞 how awesome that sounded to me!
Right on @michaelgrimes1131, thanks for listening! 🎸💥🙌🏻
Thanks for the great interview. I had the widow maker at 49, and the medical folks wouldn't hear what I had to say. I went to a cardiologist who listened. After my stent, all the nurses said I was the lucky one. I'm living my bonus round at 61+.Thanks for sharing.
Very cool, thanks for sharing that, @jamiemcpoland1876 🙌🏻 💥 🎉 and stay healthy!
Gotta love that guy! Humble, accomplished, extremely talented and a pleasure to listen to. I bet he'd be a hoot to hang on the porch with a few flat tops picking a few.
I’m a fan of Mac , but I would never heard of him until he started playing with Jimmy because I’m a ParrotHead. That’s when I knew Mac was very talented. I love his song That’s where I come from. Kenny recorded it. Mac is a great singer songwriter musician and a super nice guy ✌🏻❤️
Thank you for listening @garycollins7688! 🎉🔥😇
He joined the Coral Reefers in the 1990s. What a treasure.
i have never met good ol.mac my nephew has he went to his his cd release party at a club in nville few years ago with my younger sister shes friends with him also nice ol boy everybody loves him nephew said i may still have the cd hsve to.dig out
Ditto!
I grew up in Belmont and we danced and we had our prom at the Tishomingo State Park Lodge! And you are younger that I am, Mac! But I am a t-totaller and still am. I am 79, and Mac’s daddy, Lyman, taught me Social Studies in high school. I love our hometown!
Very cool, thanks for sharing that, @jennyreed780 🙌🏻 💥 🎉
I've been following Mac since the 70s, this is the best interview I've come across in all that time!
Thanks for your kind words brianc1701 and glad you enjoyed this 👍🏻🎸♫ subscribe: elg.fun/subscribe
Mac is one of the most genuine people I've ever heard.. I appreciate him sharing his life with you.. Means a lot! Thanks Mac!
Brilliant interview, Mac is just a walking example of how people should think and how the universe works. The stories about his experiences of working with Artists and with his family and friends reminds me of my youth when I was in the mountain with my Granda cutting the Turf in Ireland and the people would gather around a fire to make the Tea, boil eggs and just tell stories, wonderful days except when the midges came out.
Thanks for your kind words @mickymcl8359 and glad you enjoyed this 👍🏻🎸♫ I've had a few great Irish players on the show. If you get a chance, check out:
Anto Drennan at th-cam.com/video/vVKjM9U7rRI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XaSzIFUvfc6RVrKI - some of THE best stories ever shared on this show
Michal Kulbaka at th-cam.com/video/Ef27s9Q28W0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=t1xGeo9hyUkoCdii
And Dom Martin, who's just an amazing blues artist... his show drops Oct 28... all the best and enjoy!
What a genuinely nice person.
I met Mac about 20 years ago at the House of Blues in Cambridge Mass before it went under. Very gracious guy !!!!
Another talented, small town Mississippi talented musician! Super talented, humble and a true Southern gentleman! Keep on Rockin’! 🎤🎸🎹⭐️
Glad you enjoyed the interview @paulpadilla7600, and thanks for listening 💥 🎶 🎸 !
Fascinating. What a guy. Superb writer and lovely touch on the acoustic…
You are fortunate to have. the gift of living a good life.....a well lived life.....
My greatgrandaddy had a still in Cedar Grove near there as well. How Mac described it was what I heard growing up! Tooooo cooool!
Thanks for your art brother! Tuscaloosa Alabama
Great heartfelt interview! A Gem! Blown away by Mac’s top 3! George Strait … raising the roof off Hey Good Lookin for everyone to follow! Class!
Great style interview, letting Mac speak and you then following his lead brought deep insights allowing us all to get to know Mac and the driver in his excellence! Connecting a bit deeper with all the artists mentioned, Wow, and especially with Mac’s big lil brother, Jimmy. Mac produced JBs last record Equal Strain on All Parts, 😢 w JBs passing Mac is living his gift of preaching music to heal our hearts and his too!
Condolences to the Coral Reefer Band family. Thank you Mac! Your parents must be eternally proud! Bubbles up!
Glad you enjoyed the interview @Coolviber-bb9rc, and thanks for listening 💥 🎶 🎸 !
Mac, you seem to be a genuine and awesome down to earth person. The world would be such a better place if more people were like you. Would love to just just talk to someone as awesome as you. i bet you have some wonderful stories.
Thank you so much for posting this. What an inspiration for me at 65 and retired. Play in a praise band after many years on mando and this is just an inspiration to listen to. Thank you. c2
Glad you enjoyed the interview @charlestew8792, and thanks for listening 💥 🎶 🎸 !
I love this interview, and love how many connections to Mac and favoy influences of mine. John Prince, Jimmy Buffett, of course. Muscle Shoals music. Went to Kris Kristofferson concerts in 70s. Kris show casung Donnie Fritts singing "Rainbow Road" and his coming from Muscle Shoals. Seeing Mike Utley with Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge, then with Jimmy Buffett. Mutual love of Jesse Winchesters... I could go on, Thank you, Mac! ❤
Thank you for listening @BOOMNERD51! 🎉🔥😇
As a long time jimmy buffet fan Please keep the coral reffer band going i think jimmy would like that very much.
In awe of Mac! Everything that is decent, beautiful and right in music!
What’s next? 😢Tho all have individual careers it would be the greatest ever if Coral Reefers have a way forward. Legacy needs to live on, JB proud… 😢
Think …Mac fronting, invite conga line of JB besties to join? Annually Labor Day weekend? I’m there!!!!
Parrotheads keep this music alive and well for next generations. Gotta find a way! 😊
Mac ….love the background stories to some of the best of country music! You are a sweet soul, enjoy your bonus round. ❤️
I thoroughly enjoyed this interview. Mac was not on my radar. He is a treasure.
Thank you for listening @roberthughes6584! 🎉🔥😇
Wow! What a awesome attitude for us all to follow!
It sounds like Mac’s Mom had a gift from the Lord and just had to share her gift. She raised a wonderful man too.
What a great interview and Guy, Mac is just amazing person and musician.
What an outstanding interview! I'm now a huge fan as of about September of this year! My car blew a gasket and fried the motor. Little Mazda 2 I'd had for 10 years so I got railroaded into a high karate Buick with Sirius radio. I was testing it out and said, "play Margaritavulle" in honor of Jummy. I was so sad he passed! Lo and behold there's a whole radio station dedicated to it! I been listening to all the concerts ever since. I hate I missed out on Jimmy. I had no idea. I'm 48 but man I love Mac and all the rest! Especially knowing he's that honest! I once called the police on myself!😂Have a great day and God bless!
Thanks for your kind words @user-sq6rr7gy9i and glad you enjoyed this 👍🏻🎸♫
This Interview touched my Soul 💙 Thank you Gentlemen from the bottom of my Heart!
What Mac shared about music changing the world is so True, music brings people together regardless of their beliefs!
God Bless you both ❤
I can’t tell you enough how much this touched me.
My heart felt condolences to Mac and us All after Jimmy’s transition 😢
Thanks for your kind words @julieprince5538 and glad you enjoyed this 👍🏻🎸♫
What a terrific interview. Mac has written some of my favorite songs in country music. I will hear a song on the radio, start singing along, and later find out it is written by Mac, Skip Ewing, Paul Overstreet, Phil Vassar or one of the Martins. God keeps blessing me with great songs to listen to.
Glad you enjoyed the interview @aarontracy5160, and thanks for listening 💥 🎶 🎸 !
He’s a beautiful soul and listening to him is good for the soul.
Thank you for listening @lindawer! 🎉🔥😇
What a wonderful talent and a wonderful southern gentleman (I'm his age, so I can say that and he may even appreciate the title!!)
Mac is such an amazing human being! So humble and such a beautiful person! I love his optimism and outlook on life! I share his philosophy on life and positive attitude so it is so refreshing to listen to his music and hear his interviews and insights!💖
Glad you enjoyed the interview @marypatstrobel2913, and thanks for listening 💥 🎶 🎸 !
What a fascinating, inspiring, and likable man. Absolutely fantastic interview!
Glad you enjoyed the interview @stephenherzig8775, and thanks for listening 💥 🎶 🎸 !
"if you can do what you want and make someone else's life better by helping them out somehow - You Won" So True! Great interview Craig 👍
Thanks Scott Freeman, Rock on! 🎸🙌🏻🔥🎶 subscribe: elg.fun/subscribe
after hearing that Mac has guitars from colleagues who have passed on, I sure hope he has one of Jimmy's now
Just to listen to Mac talk and tell some of his great life stories and in a few moments you'll understand that he is the real deal.
Absolutely what I needed right now - never got near where these guys did , but … Mac gives me the motivation to keep doing what I do , as long as I can - thanks for the interview!
Thank you for listening @timothybrown5826! 🎉🔥😇
Music saved my life and keeps me walking, heck dancing. Thank you Mac. Great I interview. ✌🏽💕🫧🦜
Thank you for listening @edcpike! 🎉🔥😇
Love Mac McAnally
Hope Mac will have a tribute tour with the Coral Reefers!💙💙💙
It’s interesting to me that most people on here know Mac from Jimmy Buffett’s band, and I’ve known of him and been a fan since the ‘70’s and never knew he was in Jimmy’s band.
What an awesome story about Mac’s path. Makes me grateful for the choices that led me thru my life. Certainly not what/where was my plan, but gave me an awesome life. 🥰
Well said!
This is such a cool interview to stumble across. Just last month I was in Muscle Shoals with 8-Track Entertainment at an event celebrating the new Two Dozen Roses collaboration between Shenandoah and Luke Combs, and honestly until just now in this interview had no idea Mac had co-written that song. Wonderful interview of one of the most humble and talented people in the business. Love your line and style of interviewing as well. Well done!
Thanks for your kind words @robert_starling and glad you enjoyed this 👍🏻🎸♫
What a great guy Mac is!!!
This is such a gift❤❤❤
Thanks for your kind words @BST501 and glad you enjoyed this 👍🏻🎸♫
Always admired Mac this interview just made it more of why Thanks !
Glad you enjoyed it Steve :-)
Thanks for the inspiration Mac!
Right on @rhetttillery, thanks for listening! 🎸💥🙌🏻
I can’t say I love that enough ! Thank You
Thank you for listening @davegenske8973! 🎉🔥😇
A Good Man
A Real Man
one cool guy keep rocking
Hilarious & phenomenal, both
Glad you enjoyed the interview @AlanCath, and thanks for listening 💥 🎶 🎸 !
You are the Best Mac‼️‼️‼️❤️
Success happens when preparedness meets opportunity
Love you Mac..bless you always
Glad you enjoyed the interview @frankssandrie3051, and thanks for listening 💥 🎶 🎸 !
Great interview. Love Mac more every time I hear him
Thank you for listening @a29miller! 🎉🔥😇
Mac is da man!
Really great interview!
Great presentation man.. hello from NJ
Thanks for your kind words @kennethhacker3014 and glad you enjoyed this 👍🏻🎸♫
great interview craig macs a monster super guy musician
Glad you enjoyed the interview @craigdooley6501, and thanks for listening 💥 🎶 🎸 !
A great interview.
Thanks
Touched by the Hand of God with a Gift!
Thank you for listening @williamburbage5774! 🎉🔥😇
Electricity turned on is the ultimate humble.
I’ve known about him for years but did not remember that he worked with Levon Helm
This was a great interview. Would love to hear one with Peter Mayer.
Thank you for listening @joelpanettaonline! 🎉🔥😇
Peter has a newsletter he sends out when inspired... last one was August 30th, and the one before that was his birthday 🎉
Gentlemen this was one heck of a Cool and great Interveiw i’m laughing because i come from a very big Italain Family and we do have some very talented Musicians that have had individual levels of Success that deserve it all but they all have had the Rock and Roll Dream of making It then i listen to this story he is like oh at best i’m a mediocre Piano player got shoved into a studio at 13 and Bam the other guys. force me to cut a demo that Skyrockets like it did then later on he is playing for and with one of the most Successfull Groups i this Country and one of my favorites as well. Jimmy Buffett. that’s Success in the music Industry ! not just forthe hits he has had but more importantly damn. talk about Longevity incidentally It’s My Job is one of my all time favorite songs i honestly. did a job i worked my Ass off for over 35 years which was Commercial Woodworking and honest truth i loved what i did but kept that song playing looped in my brain for years. it helped that i did graduate highschool in Hollywood Florida and then lived for 30 something in Maryland raising my children and working plus having a boat on the Chesapeake Bay where even my Boss used to shake his head in Wonder. all you Boater guys and Fishing Buddies stick together don’t YAwl ? he used to say i’ll never. get it how much money you guys throw into that Hobby and Pastime just to have a Fish you can buy at the Grocery Store. i was always that’s not the Point it’s a Lifestyle i lived on a 48 foot Sailing Yacht in the Bahamas and we had Sirius Radio one weekend we had to swing on the Hook for a few extra nights to let some weather get ahead of us to cross the Gulfstream back over to Florida ! i did contact my Boss via Satalite phone we had on loan and i called to update him i may be a few days behind getting home he was like are you guys okay with the weather and i’m like Dude don’t get me wrong i jumped into the Carribean Ocean with a bar of soap this morning scrubbed up and pulled a pair of swimming trunks on to sit on the swim platform to rinse off with fresh water and i’m sitting in a Hammock watching Women riding around us on Rental Jet Skis in Bikinis and i’m sucking on Rum drinks. listening to Margarittaville radio yeah we’re good. i got a case of Kruzane rum hidden in the engine compartment to thank everyone at the Shop for letting me do this !
Great stories man, glad you enjoyed the interview @craigmonteforte1478, and thanks for listening 💥 🎶 🎸 !
Good stuff. Enjoyed
Thank you for listening @doncatchpole! 🎉🔥😇
What an "under achiever" - geez! I had no idea, do now. Just knew him from his time with Jimmy.
Right on @JamesAllmond, thanks for listening! 🎸💥🙌🏻
Ditto keep it going.Mac.From1Guitar player song writer to another....jdm
Wow. $250/week. My one and only pro job back in 1982 was $50/week (which I've never actually been paid) and required me to be at practices for the current set and to practice on my own for the next two weeks' sets of songs. I was ONLY paid for the performances and not the practice time which represented at least three times as much. Whatever, it was cool to be paid to play music. Y'know. Or to have been promised to be paid to play.
I'm friends with Jimmy also
It was odd to me - years ago now- to ‘discover’ Mac was so much bigger than the most available optic of him being longterm with Jimmy Buffett. And Jimmy did his part to expose that- true.
But what interests me most in this interview isn’t that big presence in the music business but rather the undertone or theme of intent. The deeper aspects of morals seem reflected by his philosophy or his societal context. However, when one observes his humility and gratefulness with even a little bit of intellectual contemplation you realize that his anecdotes, quotes, and comparative analyses are merely a means of explaining that his character and moral compass is in fact reflected by his composure and philosophy.
In a day and world where it is often said that “morals change” and ‘old’ definitions of cultural norms are outdated dogma or outdated constraints on freedom it refreshing and very up to date to see one of those standout successes defy contemporary thinking and continue succeeding in later life without adjusting his underlying moral compass.
Many in the younger crowd could benefit from that example; thinking deeper than the moment, eschewing moral liquidity, and being others-focused would bring some hope and aid in the healing our shipwrecked post-modern culture.
Very cool, thanks for sharing that, @fishhuntadventure 🙌🏻 💥 🎉
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Mac is awesome and in a great coincidence he and I share July 15th birthdates....
Cool!
His life as a "God Moment".
The song its my job is a great tune. Thank you Mr Wittley. Or how you pronounse your name. Haha
Ed sheeran will look like Mac in 30 years
I've been living on borrowed time.
Thanks to advanced medical treatment.
Right on @bucketlist621, thanks for listening! 🎸💥🙌🏻
F all that Kenny Chesney, Reba, etc. songwriting that he did. The best Mac stuff is his first 2 albums.. we’re having a funeral baby
Glad you enjoyed the interview @BBPalmer420, and thanks for listening 💥 🎶 🎸 !
I carry a $100 bill in my wallet have for 20 years
Humble And Kind Guy...