“She has the voice: bruised, smoky and ornery, right at home where country and soul meet. She has the melodies and the timing – she’s irresistible,” says music critic Jon Pareles of The New York Times. With an ancestry stretching back to Ireland and a current home squarely in the Mississippi hills, Shannon McNally is the right sooty-winged angel to deliver the lilting blues-Americana message of Black Irish, her latest hit album. Part Muddy Waters, part Emmylou Harris, McNally doesn’t just play music, she becomes it.