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Busy week for Mac.... Besides being nominated as the CMA Musician of the Year (guitar), Mac was once again nominated for induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

THe nominees are:

The ten nominees in the Songwriter category are:
Paul Craft (“Brother Jukebox”)
Bob DiPiero (“American Made”)
Kye Fleming (“I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool”)
Larry Henley (“Wind Beneath My Wings”)
Mac McAnally (“Old Flame”)
Earl “Peanutt” Montgomery (“We’re Gonna Hold On”)
Bob Morrison (“You Decorated My Life”)
Thom Schuler (“16th Avenue”)
L.E. White (“After the Fire Is Gone”)
the late Lawton Williams (“Fraulein”).

Songwriter/Artist nominees are:
J.J. Cale
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs,
Amy Grant
Tony Joe Whit
Hank Williams Jr.

Two from the Songwriter category and one nominee from the Songwriter/Artist category will be inducted into the prestigious Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Oct. 14, in Nashville.

http://www.countryweekly.com/songwriter ... scoop/2541

Congratulations!!

Congratulations to Mac for the nomination.

http://www.nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com/

A biographical sketch of Mac.

Raised in Belmont, Mississippi, Mac McAnally was a guitar and piano prodigy who was performing in clubs by age 13. By age 18, he was a session guitarist in Muscle Shoals. He began his recording career in 1977, and his ten albums have garnered him a loyal cult following. In addition to being a successful musician, singer, arranger, publisher and studio owner, this Southern renaissance man is a major songwriting talent, having provided hits to Alabama (“Old Flame”), Shenandoah (“Two Dozen Roses”), Steve Wariner (“Precious Thing”), Ricky Van Shelton (“Crime Of Passion”) and T.G. Sheppard (“One Owner Heart”), among others. He has produced artists from Ricky Skaggs to Chris LeDoux to Sawyer Brown (for whom he also penned the hits “Café on the Corner,” “All These Years,” “The Boys and Me” and “Thank God For You”). McAnally is a longtime member of Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer band, has produced Buffett records and has co-written Buffett hits such as “It’s My Job” and “License to Chill.”