Mac McAnally

Mac McAnally was born in Red Bay, Alabama, on July 15, 1957, and grew up in Belmont, where he played piano and sang at Belmont First Baptist Church and wrote his first song by fifteen. He worked as a session musician in Muscle Shoals and had signed with Ariola Records by 1977. Sawyer Brown took All These Years to number three on the country chart, and Kenny Chesney's version of Back Where I Come From reached fourteen. Chesney's 2008 duet of Down the Road gave him his first number one. McAnally led Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tishomingo State Park — 7.1 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps park around Bear Creek's sandstone canyon at milepost 304 of the Natchez Trace Parkway, with a swinging bridge and cliffs found nowhere else in Mississippi.

More markers nearby

• Tammy Wynette — 19 mi
• Battle of Iuka — 20 mi
• Fulton — 20 mi
• Unknown Soldiers C.S.A. — 20 mi