It (Wild Wing) didn't really start out as a music thing - but I'm gonna jump out here and take a whole bunch of credit for that - I was probably one of the first musicians they had there and we grew together. I will say this, I stayed at Wild Wings and played with them for I don't even know how many years.
Year Title Artist Rating Releases 2010: The Best of Edwin McCain: Edwin McCain: 1: 2018: Ill Be.
I moved to Hilton Head and I was playing outside of the Holiday Inn at the Tiki hut. Mercy Bound: Edwin McCain: 3: 1: 2019: Merry Christmas, Baby: Edwin McCain: 1: Album + Compilation. 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. JEdwin McCain performs 'Mercy Bound' in the Bing Lounge, presented by Dick Hannah Dealerships. Someday I will be mercy bound I dreamed again it was West LA On a crowded street on a hot summer day, she was alone Three months late and beginning to show In a midriff blouse she would soon outgrow She had no one to call and no way home And in my mind I knew I'd seen myself But in our blindness, always seems like someone else There I was a rag. 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. We just keep riding the ride and it seems to keep going. I've been very grateful, lucky and blessed all at once. 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. Mercy Bound plays to McCain's strengths, and that should make him and his fans quite happy.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. And it's clearly working for him, as this is as well-crafted and impassioned as anything McCain made during his brief run as a hitmaker, and he and his audience are doubtless happier with this than if he took a stab at Auto-Tuned pop. From the romantic introspection of "The Boy Who Cried Love" and "Sober" to the sly, easygoing funk of "Strange Angel" and the folkie storytelling of "Millhouse Girl," this is Edwin McCain sounding just like Edwin McCain, unconcerned with musical trends or the whims of the larger audience as he does what feels right.
With songwriter Maia Sharp (another veteran of the late-'90s AAA scene) as producer, Mercy Bound breaks practically no new ground for McCain, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing as the last man standing among his graduating class, McCain sounds determined to carry the flag for a sound he helped define, and he seems perfectly happy to do it. Perhaps he's not selling as many discs or filling the same number of seats, but Mercy Bound confirms his voice is still in strong shape, he's still writing with his traditional blend of heart, soul, and regular-guy smarts, and his mixture of rootsy light rock, singer/songwriter-inspired folk/ and soaring/ Southern-style melodies is working just as well for him now as ever. In 2011, Hootie and the Blowfish are a memory, while Darius Rucker plays the country circuit, the Dave Matthews Band has practically evolved into a classic rock act, Counting Crows are floating about in the ether, and Matchbox 20 is remembered as the band that spawned Rob Thomas, but unlike his rootsy compatriots of the mid-to late '90s, Edwin McCain hasn't changed all that much since Misguided Roses climbed the charts in 1997.
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