Songs Written by Mac McAnally - Down the Road, Old Flame, Thank God for You, Two Dozen Roses, All These Years (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Down the Road, Old Flame, Thank God for You, Two Dozen Roses, All These Years. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Down the Road" is the title of 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. "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). Mac McAnally's original version is the second single from his 1990 album Simple Life, his only album for Warner Bros. Records. It debuted at #72 on the Billboard country charts for the week of July 7, 1990, fell to #75 a week later, and then reached its peak of #70 on the chart week of July 21. McAnally also re-recorded this song for his 1994 album Knots, which...http: //booksllc.net/?id=20084224