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'Down the Road'
Single by Mac McAnally
from the album Simple Life
B-side'She's Going Out of My Mind'[1]
ReleasedJune 1990
GenreCountry
Length2:42
LabelWarner Bros.
Songwriter(s)Mac McAnally
Producer(s)Jim Ed Norman
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Mac McAnally singles chronology
'Back Where I Come From'
(1990)		'Down the Road'
(1990)		'Live and Learn'
(1992)

'Down the Road' is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Mac McAnally. McAnally has charted with the song on two separate occasions. The first of these two versions was released as the second single from his 1990 album Simple Life, and was a minor chart single for him that year. Eighteen years later, McAnally re-recorded the song as a duet with Kenny Chesney on Chesney's 2008 album Lucky Old Sun. This rendition is also McAnally's highest charting country hit, having reached Number One in February 2009.

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Content[edit]

'Down the Road' is a mid-tempo ballad. In it, the male narrator describes his childhood love interest — a girl who lives down the road from him. Eventually, the narrator proposes to marry her, only to find out the expectations her parents have of him.

In the second verse, the narrator is now an adult, and his daughter has a love interest who lives down the road. He then explains that he has the same expectations that the parents in the first verse had, but he will still let her go down the road.

According to Country Weekly magazine, McAnally was inspired to write the song one Christmas morning after thinking about what his two daughters' lives would be like in the future (he has since had a third).[2]

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Mac McAnally version[edit]

Mac McAnally's original version is the second single from his 1990 album Simple Life, his only album for Warner Bros. Records. It peaked at No. 70 on the Hot Country Songs charts. McAnally later released it on his 1994 album Knots.

Music video[edit]

McAnally's rendition also features a music video, directed by John Lloyd Miller. It features McAnally performing the song on a porch while playing electric guitar.

Chart positions[edit]

Chart (1990)Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[3]73
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[4]70

Kenny Chesney version[edit]

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'Down the Road'
Single by Kenny Chesney and Mac McAnally
from the album Lucky Old Sun
ReleasedNovember 10, 2008
Recorded2008
GenreCountry
Length2:59
LabelBlue Chair/BNA
Songwriter(s)Mac McAnally
Producer(s)Buddy Cannon
Kenny Chesney
Kenny Chesney singles chronology
'Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven'
(2008)		'Down the Road'
(2008)		'Out Last Night'
(2009)
Mac McAnally singles chronology
'Not That Long Ago'
(1993)		'Down the Road'
(2008)		'You First'
(2009)

In 2008, Kenny Chesney covered the song on his album Lucky Old Sun. Chesney's version features guest vocals from McAnally, who sings the second verse and chorus. Unlike McAnally's original which is accompanied by electric guitar, Chesney's rendition is more acoustic in nature, featuring only accompaniment from two steel-string acoustic guitars and congas. According to McAnally, the song 'was not supposed to be a duet', but he agreed to record it as a duet on Chesney's album.[2] Chesney and McAnally were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals on December 2, 2009.[5]

Composition[edit]

The Chesney and McAnally duet version is set in cut time in the key of E major. It has a moderate tempo and a main chord pattern of E-B-A-B. Chesney and McAnally's vocals range from B3-C♯5.[6]

Reception[edit]

Critical[edit]

Chesney's rendition received a 'thumbs-up' rating from The 9513. Critic Jim Malec said that the song 'provid[ed] him a comfortable pocket from which he can weave a tale' and added, 'Down The Road' brings together the best of Chesney with the best of McAnally, a songwriter whose greatest strength is his ability to breath [sic] life into characters that seem unquestionably real, and which help us discuss life’s essential and often bittersweet truths.' He also said that it was Chesney's 'best vocal performance in years'.[7] Jacob Crogie of 411 Mania gave the Chesney version a four-out-of-five rating, saying 'This re-recording is a classic example of good country! It's got some solid musicality and is acoustic based to suit the subject matter. McAnally's writing provides solid, believable, sympathetic characters which allows the listener to connect to the song emotionally.'[8]

Chart positions[edit]

Chesney's version of the song made its chart debut at number 59 on the country charts dated for November 1, 2008. It fell from the charts the next week, then re-entered at number 38 for the week of November 15. It is McAnally's second Top 40 country chart entry, eighteen years after his previous one, the number 14 'Back Where I Come From' in 1990. The duet version reached number one on the country chart dated for February 28, 2009, giving Chesney his sixteenth Number One and McAnally his first, and to date, only Number One.

Chart (2008–2009)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[9]1
US Billboard Hot 100[10]47
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[11]57

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Year-end charts[edit]

Chart (2009)Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)[12]30

References[edit]

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  1. ^Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 261. ISBN0-89820-177-2.
  2. ^ abConaway, Alanna (April 20, 2009). 'Story Behind the Song: The Gift of Christmas Past'. Country Weekly. 16 (10): 28.
  3. ^'Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 1283.' RPM. Library and Archives Canada. August 4, 1990. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
  4. ^'Mac McAnally Chart History (Hot Country Songs)'. Billboard.
  5. ^'The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards Nominees List'Archived 2009-12-03 at WebCite, Grammy.com, December 2, 2009
  6. ^''Down the Road' sheet music'. Musicnotes.com. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  7. ^Malec, Jim (November 4, 2008). 'Kenny Chesney & Mac McAnally - 'Down the Road''. The 9513. Archived from the original on February 4, 2009. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
  8. ^Crogie, Jacob (December 10, 2008). 'The Singles Guy 12.10.08: I'm Bored, I'm Bored, Come On Let's Get High!'. 411 Mania. Retrieved December 12, 2008.
  9. ^'Kenny Chesney Chart History (Hot Country Songs)'. Billboard.
  10. ^'Kenny Chesney Chart History (Hot 100)'. Billboard.
  11. ^'Kenny Chesney Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)'. Billboard.
  12. ^'Best of 2009: Country Songs'. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved December 13, 2009.
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If Mac McAnally never sang or played another note of music, his place in music history is more than assured. Writer, producer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and all around musical sage, Mac has seen and done it all. Now he is back once again with a new and energizing album – Live in Muscle Shoals. Recorded live from the Norton Auditorium at the University of North Alabama during the W.C. Handy Music Festival, Mac put together an incredible band of musicians consisting of fellow Coral Reefers and Muscle Shoals/Nashville session friends in which they captivated the audience. “Last summer the fine folks in charge of the W.C. Handy Music Festival asked me to play a show that ran the gamut of everything I’ve done,” Mac said. “In live performance you don’t have to look far for imperfections. I look at the imperfections as blessings too,” he added. “W.C. Handy made a career out of mixing influences from his surroundings and expressing them musically. I share that aspiration and hope to merit having shared the bill with his legacy on July 31, 2010 in his hometown of Florence, Alabama.” A master storyteller, Mac introduces each song with anecdotes, describing how the songs came to be and how they have impacted his life. Mac’s wit and love for life and music shine throughout. Live in Muscle Shoals includes his hits “Back Where I Come From”, “All These Years”, and “Down the Road”, as well as a cover of the ‘60s hit “I Heard It through the Grapevine”. The album serves as the perfect compliment to an incomparable career. Music was the most obvious road for Lyman 'Mac' McAnally to take from his Red Bay, Alabama birthplace and Belmont, Mississippi hometown. He was a guitar and piano prodigy who performed in clubs at 13, wrote his first song at 15 and landed as a Muscle Shoals studio musician at 18. Mac signed his first record deal, with Ariola, at 20 and launched two singles to moderate success on the Billboard Hot 100. 'It's A Crazy World' peaked at No. 37 and 'Minimum Love' topped out at No. 41. His songwriting drew the attention of Jimmy Buffett and Hank Williams, Jr., both of whom cut McAnally songs. Alabama took his 'Old Flame' to No. 1 in 1981. The song cemented his status as a hit maker, a reputation that has never waned. Reba McEntire, T.G. Sheppard, David Allan Coe, Shenandoah, Ricky Van Shelton, Charley Pride, Randy Travis and Steve Wariner are just some of the artists who cut Mac's songs over the next 20 years. In the late '80s and '90s, McAnally became an in-demand producer, along the way working with Ricky Skaggs, Restless Heart, Chris LeDoux and Little Feat, among others. He produced the band Sawyer Brown through their biggest successes and penned their signature hits including 'The Cafe On The Corner,' 'The Boys And Me' and 'Thank God For You.' Meanwhile, Mac's skills as a musician continued to bring calls that carried him into the studio. Over the course of his career he's built an enviable registry of credits that includes Roy Orbison, Hank Williams, Jr., Amy Grant, Jimmy Buffett, Travis Tritt, Linda Ronstadt, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Dolly Parton and many more. And his guitar and vocal skills weren't confined to the studio as he joined Buffett's touring Coral Reefer band, an association that continues to this day. McAnally has also produced several of Buffett's albums and written many of his songs. And even in the midst of creating a prodigious body of behind-the-scenes work, McAnally continued to make his own music. All told, he has recorded 11 albums, all for major labels. In fact, he was the first artist signed to David Geffen's legendary rock label Geffen Records. His accomplishments are now beginning to be fully recognized. In 2007, McAnally was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. The following year, the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame followed suit, while the Country Music Association named him Musician of the Year for the last 3 years in a row. And, Mac continues to own and operate his own recording studio in Muscle Shoals. So the question remains: Why? Why now? Why is his biggest success and notoriety as an artist happening after he's already achieved so much? McAnally is more than confirmed as one of the most accomplished and revered creative forces in the music business. He has nothing left to prove. Maybe this time, however, the music business has something to prove to Mac McAnally. Official Website

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