Mac Mcanally - Semi-True Stories
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Artist: Mac McanallyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-06-29
Music Label: Mailboat Records
Soundtracks:
- Meanwhile
- Last Man Standing
- The Far Side Of Heaven
- The Opposite Of Love
- Hard Way To Go
- Semi-True Stories
- Come On If You're Comin'
- When Trouble Comes Around
- Stephon The Alternative Lifestyle Reindeer
- Home Again
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Music Review: As good as it gets . . .
Rating: 5 Stars
SEMI-TRUE STORIES is one of the those little gems that get lost in the glitter and glamour of the music industry, which makes it all the more important to spread the word about just how good this CD is.
Mac McAnally's been recording since he was 18 . . . he's worked with some of music's greatest headliners (Roy Orbison, Dolly Parton, Sawyer Brown, Reba, Billy Joel, Alabama and Lyle Lovett) . . . he's a long time member of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band . . . and he's been Jimmy Buffett's friend for some 30 years. . . but he's also a picker/singer/songwriter with extraordinary talent whose music is deeply influenced by his Mississippi roots.
MEANWHILE is an up-close and personal look at a man who has just realized time is finite.
LAST MAN STANDING (on Buffett's FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD CD) is a rousing anthem to party animals. It's an ironic song for Mac to have written, because he's pretty much the straight man of the Coral Reefers and says he's usually the first man sitting. *Grin*
THE FAR SIDE OF HEAVEN and THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE are "closure" tunes about bad breakups. I wouldn't be surprised if some big player in country music didn't record THE FAR SIDE OF HEAVEN. I think it's going to be a "classic divorce" tune. THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE is a plea to think about the children first during a divorce.
HARD WAY TO GO looks at how race relations haven't changed much since 1823 . . . and what a pity it is that we've chosen to take the "hard way to go".
SEMI-TRUE STORIES, a song Mac wrote with Jimmy for Jimmy, has one of my all-time favorite lines . . . "it was too much tequila or not quite enough." Makes you wish you'd been there "the day God's Own Drunk was recorded."
The swinging COME ON IF YOU'RE COMING will ring true with any man who's waited on a woman to get ready to go out for the evening. It features Greg "Fingers" Taylor, Buffett's former harmonica player and a huge talent. This one would be a perfect cover tune for ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL. Toe-tapping, honky tonkin', swing music at its zenith!
STEPHON (THE ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE REINDEER), on first blush, is quirky, but, upon a closer listening, it holds a mirror up to the way our has become so dadgum polarized. It has something to offend almost everyone - - - so unlike the mild-mannered Mac we've come to know and love.
HOME AGAIN seems to be a tribute to Mac's deep Mississippi musical and hard shell Baptist roots.
However, the most surprising cut, at least to me, is WHEN TROUBLE COMES AROUND.
"When trouble comes around
And you don't know where to turn
For all the pain it brings
You know there's certain things
There's just one way to learn."
Fellow Coral Reefer Band Members Peter and Jim Mayer and Roger Guth add the perfect bluesy feel to the music that compels you to slow down and listen to the message . . .we all have to endure trouble and learn from it and live to endure it again and again.
Powerful stuff here.
Do yourself a favor. Get this CD.
Enjoy!
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