Shannon McNally

Shannon McNally: Live at Dee's

Grammy nominee Shannon McNally’s live music career began on the jam band circuit of the 1990s with bands like Derek Trucks and Railroad Earth. Since then, her catalog has grown to span the whole of the Americana music spectrum, both writing original songs as well as interpreting the songs of others. She brings a soul-stirring musicality to her craft. Her honest and, at times, elegant voice immediately grabs one by the heartstrings. Not to mention as it turns out, she is also an exceptional electric guitar player.

McNally has fourteen albums to her name and a string of single self-releases on her personal label, Queen Maeve Records. Her latest album, “Live At Dee’s,” is a career retrospective song list captured over four nights in September of 2022 with a revolving band of Nashville musicians. Showcasing McNally’s wonderful storytelling and sense of wry humor, the 18-song disc captures her at her most relaxed in her natural habitat of neighborhood Honky Tonk. 

For those who have followed McNally’s twenty-plus-year career, the thing that sticks with listeners the most about her is the timeless effortlessness she brings to all she does. With an impressive catalog and extensive list of collaborators with whom she has written, recorded, and toured; McNally continues to turn out great music across wide-flung ends of the spectrum, defying genre-fication. At home on any stage, from Lincoln Center to the juke joints of Mississippi—she always brings the house down.

"Shannon McNally has recorded an album that rearranges the molecules of Jennings' music, turning his tales of cowboy machismo into the stark declarations of a woman taking control of her life." — Ken Tucker,

“McNally…Sensual, Swaggering, Smokey.” — Jon Pareles,

“Much Like Jennings Himself, Who Was Noted For Liking To Do Things His Own Way, McNally Is Passionate About What She Does.”
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“On this gem of an album, McNally’s covers the late outlaw country star feel as much a tribute to Waylon Jennings’ attitude and independent spirits to his music. ” — MOJO, 4 Stars

"This is high art right here; cotton field disco perfection." —

“Only Gram Parsons’ term ‘Cosmic American Music’ begins to touch her mercurial, changeling roots aesthetic... McNally is a Zen-like, post-Beat song poet.” — Thom Jurek, All Music

“She sings like Patsy Cline and Otis Redding at the same time.” — Blues, jazz, and funk singer-songwriter Mac Rebennack, aka Dr. John

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