Maria McKee
Acoustic / Folk Rock / Rockabilly
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"Share my bed just to forget? I said no only once"
LOS ANGELES, California
United States
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| Maria McKee: General Info
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| Member Since | 4/29/2005 | | Band Website | mariamckee.com | | Band Members | Kevin Robinson Artwork, Layout Design
Tom Dunne Percussion, Drums
Jim Akin Bass (Electric), Vocals (Background), Engineer, Producer, Keyboards, Guitar (Electric), Bass (Upright), Lap Steel Guitar, Photography, Mixing, Art Direction, Mastering
Sean McMacken Mastering
Jerry Andrews Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals (Background), Guitar (Electric)
Maria McKee Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Vocals, Piano
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Peddlin' Dreams is Maria McKee's fifth studio outing since 1989. Since leaving Lone Justice in 1988, she has consistently frustrated her fans' expectations, not only for her infrequent recordings, but also for her restless muse that has taken her from pop (Maria McKee) to roots Americana and R&B (You Gotta Sin to Get Saved), squalling art rock (Life Is Sweet) and textured neo- psychedelia (High Dive). There was a live album issued in 2004 as well, but for the most part, McKee has stubbornly followed her own path for the past 16 years. While her label touts Peddlin' Dreams as a return to rootsy American rock and folk styles, and as the album that logistically follows You Gotta Sin. Simply put; this isn't true. This is not a look back but a further look in. It's true that acoustic guitars permeate this mix by producer, engineer and multi-instrumentalist Jim Akin, and the songs walk the folk-rock border, but they are the frame for the rich, labyrinthine, multidimensional songs here. McKee wrote or co-wrote nine of the album's 12 tracks. Using folk, country and rock backdrops, McKee's songs offer stories of the broken, the lost, the wider-eyed and the hopeless. There's the confessional longing of the protagonist in "Season of the Fair" where memory, evoked by emptiness and rejection, wraps itself in the warm embrace of strummed, unplugged six-strings and lets itself fall framed by an organ, a lone electric guitar punching through the refrain, and the singer's voice, trying hard to hold what is not only fleeting but weighted in unrelenting pain. The loose, slippery country-rock of "Sullen Sou," alternates between the balance of guitars and just behind the beat drums as the singer lets the depth of her emotion flow in images from her mouth like raw honey. The cover of Neil Young's "Barstool Blues," is faithful, shambolic, and drunken. But McKee's delivery carries an emotional weight that Young's never did. This isn't reverie; it's misery. "The Horse Life" is a waltz, layered in staggered guitars and pedal steels, where yearning and fantasy crisscross with fleeting hope, and shimmering poetry with poignancy and elegance. Peddlin' Dreams is a melancholy record to be sure, but it's moving, utterly beautiful and carefully, artfully wrought. It is the work of a masterful songwriter whose senses of time, place and character are impeccable. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide | | Influences | The Byrds, Bob Dylan, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Gram Parsons, Dusty Springfield, Neil Young
| | Sounds Like | Country-Rock, Roots Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, College Rock, Americana, Rock & Roll, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Country-Rock | | Record Label | eleven thirty | | Type of Label | Indie |
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| About Maria McKee |
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Maria McKee born 1964
A solo artist, Maria was a founding member of the cowpunk/countryrock band Lone Justice, in 1982, with whom she released two albums.
Lone Justice (1985)
Shelter (1986)
BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (1993)
This World Is Not My Home (1998)
She started releasing solo albums in 1989,
Maria McKee (1989)
***Her song "Show Me Heaven" was a number one single in the United Kingdom for four weeks in 1990.
You Gotta Sin to Get Saved (1993)
***Notably she sang, "If Love Is a Red Dress (Hang Me in Rags)" on the soundtrack of Pulp Fiction. (1994)
Life Is Sweet (1996)
Ultimate Collection (2000)
High Dive (2003)
Live in Hamburg (2004)
Peddlin' Dreams (2005)
She is the half-sister of Love guitarist Bryan MacLean, with whom she played in a duo as a teenager. She wrote Fergal Sharkey's UK number one 'A Good Heart' and in the early nineties lived in Dublin.
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