“Grand Magnolia Grammy Gala” features top songwriters Rodney Crowell and Mac McAnally

The multi-Grammy Award winners and nominees will each be making return trips to The Grand Magnolia Ballroom, as both have made numerous appearances over the past six years. Tickets are already on sale for both shows at www.grandmagmusic.com.

Crowell will appear on Saturday, March 8th. Also a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Crowell has five number one hits of his own and a legacy of song writing excellence which has made him an icon among giants in the industry.

 With strong roots in country music, Crowell has written chart-topping hits for the likes of Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw and more. But owing to the distinctly universal, literary quality of his award-winning writing, he has also penned beloved songs for artists as diverse as Jimmy Buffett, Bob Seger, Etta James, the Grateful Dead, John Denver, and countless others.

Don’t dare miss the chance to see Crowell up close and personal in our intimate setting as he brings his huge hits “Stars on the Water”, “Shame on the Moon”. “Leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight”, “Long Hard Road”. “Voilá, An American Dream”, “Ashes by Now”, “I ain’t living long like this” and “Please remember me” among many other favorites from his catalog.

Overall, Crowell has penned 15 songs that reached number one on the country charts. In addition to his Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Americana Album, he has earned six other Grammy Nominations. Crowell has also won six Americana Music Association Awards, including the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting as well as an Academy of Country Music Association Award for Top Male Vocalist.

Meanwhile, McAnally is an old and familiar face in the birth place of his former boss Jimmy Buffett’s hometown of Pascagoula.

He has made repeated trips and continues to please sold out crowds at the Grand Magnolia for almost a decade now.

The long time right hand man in Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band and a 10-time Country Music Association Musician of the Year award winner will take the stage in Pascagoula on Friday, April 25th.

Pascagoula has become sort of an annual destination for the highly-acclaimed McAnally. He also accompanied Buffett in his performance on the beach in The Flagship City in 2015 and Buffett also joined McAnally at The Grand Magnolia in 2017.

“I’m a Mississippi guy,” McAnally said, “I like coming back home and playing my songs. I like playing my own shows in small venues because my music is like a story you would tell to a small room of friends.”

McAnally is a Belmont, Miss., native, and his 10 CMA MOTY Awards is a record in that category.

The multi-talented McAnally is also a member of the Nashville Songwriters’ Hall of Fame, the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, the Alabama Music Hall of Fame and was nominated for a Grammy Award. 

He was also honored recently with having a star dedicated in his name on the Music City Walk of Fame in downtown Nashville McAnally has also written numerous top hits over the years for the likes of Kenny Chesney (“Down The Road”), Alabama (“Old Flame”), Shenandoah (“Two Dozen Roses”), Sawyer Brown (“All These Years”, “Thank God for you”) as well as Steve Wariner (“Crazy World”) and Sammy Kershaw (“Southbound”) among others.

Buffett covered many McAnally songs such as “It’s My Job” and Buffett and McAnally’s rendition of Mac’s song “Back Where I Come From” in Buffett’s live shows quickly became a crowd favorite all over the world. Chesney also had a number-one hit with that song.