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There’s something about that lick that’s been with me all my life that made it easier to go back to that place and see the way I saw the world, when I was 20 years old or 25 but look at it from a different vantage point since I have survived a few decades.” “I started thinking about little stories from how I grew up and where I grew up. “That particular song, lyrically, puts me in a place,” says McAnally. Once In a Lifetime is a snapshot of moments-old and new-of McAnally’s musical journey, his honestly translated memories in song, opening on childhood reminisces “Alive and in Between,” also inspired by Harrison Scott Key’s book “The World’s Largest Man.”
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Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007, the Mississippi-bred artist, went on to cut songs with Kenny Chesney (“Back Where I Come From”), Alabama (“Old Flame”), Shenandoah (“Two Dozen Roses”), Sawyer Brown (“All These Years”), in addition to the 30 songs he’s written with Buffett throughout his career. Growing up playing gospel and country, playing in bands by 13 and hitting the studio by 15, McAnally eventually released his self-titled debut in 1977. Starting out, McAnally says he never had much confidence to write, much less perform, but eventually found something he wanted to say. Once you commit to the notion that you are an artist, a writer, or a creator, by the time you’re 30 or 35, those things that were welling up have probably come out by then, so you have to dig a little deeper.” “It festers, whether it’s an angry young man or it’s something romantic, or whatever is important to you about the world, it just works it’s way out. “When you’re young, the first thing to come out bursts out and doesn’t require a lot of coaxing or a lot of effort,” says McAnally. Humorous in his metaphoric descriptions of writing, McAnally, whose nearly 50-year solo career has spanned writing in country, working as a session musician and longtime collaborator and guitarist for Jimmy Buffett, and his Coral Reefer Band, is always reflecting on his journey writing and performing, revealing different moments in song on Once in a Lifetime. “You want those last few bites, but you have to work for them.”
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