Reviewing it in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau said, 'although it does often sound pat, as folk stoicism will in a post-folk context, the first side comes across pretty outspoken for a Mississippi singer-songwriter with royalties in the bank-the heroine of one song is a rape victim who murders both assailant and judge after the latter lets off the former. His self-titled debut album produced the single 'It's a Crazy World' which reached No. The producers there encouraged him, and by 1977 he was signed to Ariola Records. During a session break, McAnally began to perform original material. From there, he went on to become a session musician in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He began playing piano and singing in church at the Belmont First Baptist Church in Belmont, Mississippi as a child, and by age fifteen, he had composed his first song.
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