{"id":16606,"date":"2021-04-19T01:10:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T06:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/?p=16606"},"modified":"2023-09-03T20:05:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T20:05:17","slug":"hear-shannon-mcnallys-hard-grooving-version-of-ive-always-been-crazy-from-her-upcoming-lp-the-waylon-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/?p=16606","title":{"rendered":"Hear Shannon McNally\u2019s Hard-Grooving Version of \u201cI\u2019ve Always Been Crazy\u201d from her upcoming LP, The Waylon Sessions."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Hear Shannon McNally\u2019s Hard-Grooving Version of \u201cI\u2019ve Always Been Crazy\u201d from her upcoming LP, THE WAYLON SESSIONS<\/div>\n
Album out May 28th; Watch the video for \u201cI\u2019ve Always Been Crazy\u201d now<\/div>\n
Releasing via Compass Records, in partnership with Blue Rose Music<\/div>\n
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April 16, 2021 – Nashville, TN – \u201cI have always loved his defiantly existential but immediately accessible common man\u2019s music and how it boogies,\u201d says Shannon McNally<\/a> of the man whose timeless music is the subject of her new album THE WAYLON SESSIONS, Waylon Jennings. Upon the album\u2019s completion, McNally\u2019s collection of tunes ended up being not so much a tribute as it is a recontextualization; a nuanced, feminine rendering of a catalog long considered a bastion of hetero-masculinity. \u201cThe world has changed a lot since these songs were first recorded,\u201d says McNally. \u201cI have never heard a woman sing any of them, but these tunes are poignant and relevant to me and to women in general right now.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Last week, Glide Magazine<\/a> premiered the music video for \u201cI\u2019ve Always Been Crazy,\u201d the unapologetic groover from Jennings\u2019 1978 album of the same name. \u201cThe name Shannon McNally just rolls off the tongue as one of legitimacy: kind of like Reba, Tanya, or Martina. Or perhaps.. kind of like Waylon,\u201d said Glide in their song review, adding \u201cMcNally professes a twangy charm that teaches new-school outlaws like Sturgill Simpson, that her voice deserves top of the playlist rotations.\u201d Fans can watch the video for \u201cI\u2019ve Always Been Crazy\u201d right here<\/a> and pre-order or pre-save THE WAYLON SESSIONS ahead of its May 28th release date at this link<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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With THE WAYLON SESSIONS, McNally set out to revisit the songs and spirit of Waylon Jennings, a legend with whom she\u2019s always had an ongoing fascination. Over and over again, she manages to locate a smoldering intensity, a searing hurt buried deep within the music\u2019s deceptively simple poetry, and she hones in on it with surgical precision on this new album, which features special guests like Jessi Colter, Buddy Miller, Rodney Crowell, and Lukas Nelson. \u201cThe world has changed a lot since these songs were first recorded,\u201d says McNally. \u201cI have never heard a woman sing any of them, but these tunes are poignant and relevant to me and to women in general right now. As a songwriter, bringing a song to its full potential so that a larger or different audience can connect is all I\u2019ve ever cared about.\u201d<\/div>\n
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McNally knew that assembling the right band would be essential to capturing Jennings\u2019 mix of laid back charm and swaggering bravado, so she called AMA-winning guitarist Kenny Vaughan (Marty Stuart, Lucinda Williams) to help her assemble a team that included drummer Derek Mixon (Chris Stapleton), pedal steel legend and longtime Jennings bandmate Fred Newell, Texas keyboard mainstay Bukka Allen (Robert Earl Keen, Jerry Jeff Walker), and bassist Chris Scruggs (Marty Stuart, Charlie Louvin). Working live and raw, they tracked sixteen songs in just five days, relying on instinct and intuition to guide their decisions at every turn. As brilliant as the band\u2019s performances are, it\u2019s McNally that breathes new life into the music here, tackling the tunes with an honesty and a maturity that transcends genre and gender. She doesn\u2019t swap pronouns or couch her delivery with a wink; she simply plays it straight, singing her truth as a divorced single mother in her 40\u2019s in all its beauty, pain, and power.<\/div>\n
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\u201cMy goal wasn\u2019t to force anything onto the music that wasn\u2019t there already,\u201d explains McNally. \u201cThere\u2019s a feminine perspective hidden somewhere inside each of these songs. My job was to find a way to tap into that and draw it out.\u201d The result is that rare covers record that furthers our understanding of the originals; an album of classics that challenges our perceptions and assumptions about just what made them classics in the first place.<\/div>\n
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THE WAYLON SESSIONS:<\/div>\n
I\u2019ve Always Been Crazy<\/div>\n
You Asked Me To – feat. Buddy Miller<\/div>\n
Out Among The Stars – feat. Jessi Colter<\/div>\n
You Show Me Yours And I\u2019ll Show You Mine – feat. Lukas Nelson<\/div>\n
Black Rose – feat. Buddy Miller<\/div>\n
This Time<\/div>\n
I Ain\u2019t Living Long Like This – feat. Rodney Crowell<\/div>\n
I\u2019m A Ramblin\u2019 Man<\/div>\n
Mammas Don\u2019t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys<\/div>\n
Help Me Make It Through The Night<\/div>\n
We Had It All<\/div>\n
Only Daddy That\u2019ll Walk The Line*<\/div>\n
Waltz Me To Heaven*<\/div>\n
*CD\/digital bonus track<\/div>\n
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On tour:<\/div>\n
May 1 – Mobile, AL – People\u2019s Room of Mobile<\/a><\/div>\n
May 2 – Ridgeland, MS – The Ridgeland Fine Arts Festival<\/a><\/div>\n
May 28 – Nashville, TN – City Winery show and Mandolin live stream<\/a><\/div>\n
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More About Shannon McNally: Born and raised on Long Island, McNally has, at various points, called New Orleans, Nashville, and Holly Springs, Mississippi, home, but it was in Los Angeles that she first came to national attention in the early 2000s with her Capitol Records debut, Jukebox Sparrows. A restless creative spirit with a magnetic personality, McNally would go on to release a wide range of similarly lauded albums, EPs, and collaborations over the next 15 years, performing on stage and in the studio with the likes of Willie Nelson, Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, Levon Helm, Charlie Sexton, Derek Trucks, Terry Allen, and many more along the way. In 2018, she partnered with Joe Poletto at Blue Rose to develop her new album, THE WAYLON SESSIONS\u2014a collection of songs from Waylon Jennings and his outlaw cohorts. The album will be released on Compass Records on May 28, 2021.<\/div>\n
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“On this gem of an album, McNally\u2019s covers of the late outlaw country star feel as much <\/span>a tribute to Waylon Jennings\u2019 attitude and independent spirits to his music.” <\/span>\u2014 MOJO ****<\/span><\/div>\n


Shannon McNally shared her version of the Waylon & Willie hit, “Mammas Don\u2019t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” this week with the Austin American Statesman and it\u2019s currently up on all streaming services. McNally has a loyal following in Austin, TX where she often joins Texas songwriter Terry Allen’s band and collaborates with prominent Austin musicians including Lloyd Maines and Charlie Sexton.

Shannon tells The Statesman: “I\u2019ve always heard ‘Mammas Don\u2019t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys’ as women\u2019s lament. The original version, which was a gigantic era-defining hit for Willie and Waylon, was generally perceived as a rowdy cowboy call to arms, but I don\u2019t hear it that way. To me it feels achy and lonely for the man you love, the same way it must feel being in love with a musician who is drawn to the road.”

THE WAYLON SESSIONS album release show will stream live on the Mandolin streaming platform from City Winery in Nashville on May 28 with guests Rodney Crowell, Buddy Miller, and Kenny Vaughan along with an all-star band.
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