I will say this, I stayed at Wild Wings and played with them for I don't even know how many years. The Best Of Edwin Mccain 8, I Could Not Ask For More 9, Gramercy Park Hotel 10, I Dont Know How I Got By 11, I Cant Get Next To You 12, Write Me a Song. I moved to Hilton Head and I was playing outside of the Holiday Inn at the Tiki hut. The first place I started playing was a Mexican restaurant in Charleston called San Miguel's, it's not there anymore. It wasn't the first place, but it was in the very early days. Is that where you got your start?Ī: Absolutely. Q: I heard you played for the first time at a Wild Wing Cafe in Hilton Head, S.C. I've done that for so long, it's important to me to acknowledge someone else's talent.

To have someone in my life that knows me as well as she does, it's almost not fair, because she'll write the song and I'll be like 'you're killing me, stop writing my life.' One of the things that I've learned, too, is that I don't have to write all of the songs. Some of the songs Maia wrote and brought to me, and they say what I've been meaning to say. What is the album focus and inspiration?Ī: I think it's a good snapshot of the last three years of my life. McCain's father, a doctor, was involved in the music program at the local Episcopal church, and the young Edwin got his start in music singing in the church choir. We just keep riding the ride and it seems to keep going. A rootsy singer/songwriter whose music is also influenced by jazz and soul, Edwin McCain hails from Charleston, South Carolina, and was born on January 20, 1970. McCain credits his discovery of singer-songwriter David Wilcoxs music at age. I've been very grateful, lucky and blessed all at once. Pop troubadour Edwin McCain has had five albums on the Billboard 200 chart. I'm happy people refer to me as a musician and not the college drop-out that I am. I think as a songwriter, how people find out about you is how you will always be known. Q: How do you feel about being dubbed a romantic musician?Ī: I guess those are the two songs I'm most known for but I've also got songs out that are about darker subjects. it was one of those nice ones that happened in like 20 minutes. She had a melody, and I had the idea for the song. I got with my writing partner, Maia, and it kind of popped out. We knew it was a girl, so there was a lot of a dual moments that crept into my thinking. I started trying to put my head around that moment, but at the same time my wife was pregnant with our third child, Tiller. In the end, Bates got into a shootout and was killed by the guards.A: The genesis of the song a friend of mine's daughter was getting married, and he called me and asked me if I would write him a song for his daughter for the wedding. Immediately after the murder, Bates ran as prison guards chased after him. Chorus I'll be your cryin' shoulder I'll be love's suicide And I'll be better when I'm older I'll be the greatest fan of your life Verse 2 And rain falls angry on the tin roof As we lie awake. That's when Bates turned around and shot McCain to death. After opening the cell door, McCain got up and confronted Bates. But as Bates spotted a nine milimeter pistol that a prison guard had accidently dropped and left behind too close to the cell, he reached out, managed to picked up the gun, and shot open the lock on the cell door, alerting the nearby prison guards. On Jat the New Jersey Federal Prison, Edwin McCain was sitting inside his jail cell while listening to his cell mate Will Bates (whom McCain had argued with for days) thinking of his plan to escape from jail and out to freedom. McCain was soon arrested and given a 31 year prison sentence, but despite his arrest, McCain was able to resume his singing career in November 2006 and was out on parole several times to do his music tour stuff. Edwin McCain Makes His Grand Ole Opry Debut: Go Behind-the-Scenes with the 'I'll Be' Musician McCain, who's working on a new album, stepped into the circle for the first time on Friday night in. Edwin McCain (JanuJune 29, 2010) was a singer and songwriter who also served prison time from 2005 to 2010 for the murder of african-american R&B singer Luther Vandross, who was shot by a then racist McCain in front of a local diner in Edison, New Jersey on Jand eventually died from his wounds the following day.

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