Mac McAnally Wins CMA Musician of the Year

pirate@43 · Post by **pirate@43** » November 12, 2008 9:10 pm

Mac McAnally wins the 2008 CMA award for Musician of the Year. It marks his first CMA win. He was nominated in the same category last year.

Mac scored his biggest hit single in 1977 when his song “It’s a Crazy World” peaked at #37 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Jimmy Buffett has recorded a number of his songs (some co-written by Jimmy) including: “In the City”, “Coast of Carolina”, “License to Chill”, “It’s My Job”, “Semi-True Stories”, “Changing Channels”, “Last Man Standing”, and “Tonight I Just Need My Guitar”. McAnally also wrote the Top 40 country music single “Back Where I Come From” which was recorded by Kenny Chesney.

Mac McAnally's song "Down the Road" was recently released as a single from Kenny Chesney's album "Lucky Sun". A video of the two performing a duet is available at YouTube.

flipflopgirl · Post by **flipflopgirl** » November 12, 2008 9:21 pm

WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATS TO MAC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

comtnfish · Post by **comtnfish** » November 12, 2008 9:23 pm

Congratulations Mac!!!!!

http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1 ... ners.jhtml

Brad Paisley, Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and Mac McAnally are among the early winners at the 42nd annual CMA Awards taking place Wednesday night (Nov. 12) in Nashville. Paisley's "Waitin' on a Woman" resulted in a music video of the year win for Paisley and video director Jim Shea. Plant and Krauss' collaboration on "Gone, Gone, Gone" was named musical event of the year. McAnally, a singer, songwriter and guitarist who is a member of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band, was voted musician of the year. It marks his first CMA win. Winners in select award categories were revealed prior to ABC's live awards show broadcast from the Sommet Center.

Elrod · Post by **Elrod** » November 12, 2008 9:24 pm

Congratulations Mac!

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » November 12, 2008 9:25 pm

Congratulations, Mac!!!

Well-deserved!

springparrot · Post by **springparrot** » November 12, 2008 9:26 pm

CONGRATULATIONS MAC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **SMLCHNG** » November 12, 2008 9:28 pm

CONGRATULATIONS, MAC!!!!!! WELL DESERVED!!!!!!

oldmanatee · Post by **oldmanatee** » November 12, 2008 9:42 pm

Most excellent!!! Congrats Mac! Long over due.

carolinagirl · Post by **carolinagirl** » November 12, 2008 10:12 pm

Awesome!!!!!! Congrats, Mac!

parrothead338 · Post by **parrothead338** » November 12, 2008 10:29 pm

Congrats Mac!! That's great!!!!

Post by **SMLCHNG** » November 12, 2008 10:36 pm

We JUST got to see the official announcement!!

YEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

momsrule27 · Post by **momsrule27** » November 12, 2008 11:26 pm

Congrats to Mac! Well deserved!

Conolulu · Post by **Conolulu** » November 13, 2008 7:31 am

CONGRATULATIONS MAC!

dnw · Post by **dnw** » November 13, 2008 8:43 am

Congratulations, Mac!

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » November 13, 2008 8:48 am

I've heard of this guy somewhere.

Congratulations, Mac!

Dezdmona · Post by **Dezdmona** » November 13, 2008 9:14 am

Congratulations Mac.
I know how pleased you must be to FINALLY get recognized by the industry.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » November 13, 2008 10:48 am

Must be the beard.

Congratulations Mac!!!

redwinemaker · Post by **redwinemaker** » November 13, 2008 11:22 am

Congratulations, Mac! Well deserved.

East Texas Parrothead · November 13, 2008 11:39 am

So proud for Mac ... well deserved ... congratulations!

Snowparrot · Post by **Snowparrot** » November 13, 2008 11:41 am

Way to go, Mac. We're all so proud of you.
And so pleased and honoured to have met you a time or two.