Shannon McNally

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Thom Jurek at AllMusic said it best: "Only Gram Parsons' term 'Cosmic American Music' begins to touch her mercurial, changeling roots aesthetic... Shannon McNally is a Zen-like, post-Beat song poet." For those who have followed McNally’s nearly twenty-year career, the thing that most sticks with the listener about her is the timeless effortlessness that she brings to all she does. With a long catalog and longer list of peers with whom she has written, recorded and toured, McNally continues to turn out great music that defies blatant genre-fication. 

At home across the American (Americana) music spectrum, the Grammy nominee whose live music career began on the jam band circuit of the 1990s with bands like Robert Randolph and Derek Trucks, writes as well as she interprets the songs of others, has a top-tier musicality to her craft, a soul-stirring voice that immediately grabs one by the heartstrings, and a troubadour's wanderlust, not to mention, as it turns out, she is also an excellent electric guitar player.

Like her anti-hero heroes J.J. Cale, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Dr. John, and Jim Dickinson, McNally knows who she serves. She serves the song. Her quiet but steady plodding through the many layers of the business of music hasn’t ever been rewarded with massive fame and fortune—but in time, that slow burn has become the treasure in and of itself.

The part of McNally’s narrative that is often missed is that not only has she self-managed herself for nearly all of her career but that she has also been a stout warrior-like artist who often went toe-to-toe with label heads and A&R to defend and fight for her visions. She left the major label world after ten years at Capitol/EMI to fend for herself on various smaller labels and self-release paradigms. Perhaps the business of music is finally catching up with her independent spirit. We shall see.  

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