Mac McAnally - Once In a Lifetime (2020)

Iconic singer-songwriter, producer, Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band mainstay and Country Music Association Musician of the Year award-winner for the last dozen years, Mac McAnally embarks on something entirely new on his fifteenth solo album Once in a Lifetime. To reflect the intimacy of his concerts, he 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.

Mac McAnally has an uncanny ability to see the silver lining – a perspective he’s carried on his journey 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 (and self-effacing) singer-songwriters. Once in a Lifetime captures every aspect of his musical vision.