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Maria McKee
Maria Luisa McKee (born August 17, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter. She is best known for her work with Lone Justice, her 1990 song "Show Me Heaven", and her song "If Love Is a Red Dress (Hang Me in Rags)" from the soundtrack of the film Pulp Fiction.
Maria McKee was born in Los Angeles in 1964. She grew up in a bohemian family and is the half-sister of Bryan MacLean (1946–1998), the guitarist of the band Love.
McKee was a founding member of the cowpunk and proto-Americana band Lone Justice in 1982, with whom she released two albums. In 1983, she sang the song "Never Be You" for the soundtrack of the movie "Streets of Fire" (1984). Several compilations, of both previously released and unreleased material, and a BBC Live in Concert album, have been released since the group disbanded in 1987. Bob Dylan wrote the song "Go Away Little Boy" for the band's debut album, Lone Justice, which later appeared as a B-side. The band opened for such acts as U2 and Tom Petty. During this period of her career, she was managed by Jimmy Iovine.
When she was 19, McKee wrote Feargal Sharkey's 1985 song "A Good Heart", which she has since recorded and released herself on her album Late December. Sharkey also covered "To Miss Someone", from her self-titled solo debut, on his third solo album, Songs from the Mardi Gras. In 1987, she appeared in the Robbie Robertson music video "Somewhere Down the Crazy River" (directed by Martin Scorsese), and contributed back-up vocals to his debut solo album, which included the song. McKee released her first solo, self-titled album in 1989, on which Richard Thompson played guitar and Steve Wickham (from The Waterboys) played fiddle. It received critical acclaim in Europe, prompting McKee to move to Ireland.[citation needed]
Her song "Show Me Heaven", which appeared on the soundtrack to the film Days of Thunder, topped the charts in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom, where the song topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks, becoming Britain's sixth biggest-selling song of 1990. Additionally, "Show Me Heaven" became McKee's second number one – and first self-performed – song on the UK Singles Chart after Sharkey's "A Good Heart" topped the chart in November 1985. She rarely performed this song in public until recently,[when?] before she sang it at Dublin Pride.
Her song "If Love Is a Red Dress (Hang Me in Rags)" was personally selected by Quentin Tarantino for his feature film Pulp Fiction. It is the only original song on the soundtrack.
In 1992, she released the song "Sweetest Child", which was produced by Youth and featured Robert "Throb" Young from the band Primal Scream.
Following her debut, McKee released five studio records and two live albums. The album Life Is Sweet featured her lead guitar work described as "feral" by the British Mojo magazine, which listed it as a runner-up to album of the year in their critics’ poll. The raw, postmodern album (produced by Mark Freegard) was a marked shift from her previous roots rock style. Her later three records, High Dive (2003), Peddlin' Dreams (2005) and Late December (2007), were released independently via her own label, Viewfinder Records (distributed in the UK via Cooking Vinyl).
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Maria McKee
Maria Luisa McKee (born August 17, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter. She is best known for her work with Lone Justice, her 1990 song "Show Me Heaven", and her song "If Love Is a Red Dress (Hang Me in Rags)" from the soundtrack of the film Pulp Fiction.
Maria McKee was born in Los Angeles in 1964. She grew up in a bohemian family and is the half-sister of Bryan MacLean (1946–1998), the guitarist of the band Love.
McKee was a founding member of the cowpunk and proto-Americana band Lone Justice in 1982, with whom she released two albums. In 1983, she sang the song "Never Be You" for the soundtrack of the movie "Streets of Fire" (1984). Several compilations, of both previously released and unreleased material, and a BBC Live in Concert album, have been released since the group disbanded in 1987. Bob Dylan wrote the song "Go Away Little Boy" for the band's debut album, Lone Justice, which later appeared as a B-side. The band opened for such acts as U2 and Tom Petty. During this period of her career, she was managed by Jimmy Iovine.
When she was 19, McKee wrote Feargal Sharkey's 1985 song "A Good Heart", which she has since recorded and released herself on her album Late December. Sharkey also covered "To Miss Someone", from her self-titled solo debut, on his third solo album, Songs from the Mardi Gras. In 1987, she appeared in the Robbie Robertson music video "Somewhere Down the Crazy River" (directed by Martin Scorsese), and contributed back-up vocals to his debut solo album, which included the song. McKee released her first solo, self-titled album in 1989, on which Richard Thompson played guitar and Steve Wickham (from The Waterboys) played fiddle. It received critical acclaim in Europe, prompting McKee to move to Ireland.[citation needed]
Her song "Show Me Heaven", which appeared on the soundtrack to the film Days of Thunder, topped the charts in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom, where the song topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks, becoming Britain's sixth biggest-selling song of 1990. Additionally, "Show Me Heaven" became McKee's second number one – and first self-performed – song on the UK Singles Chart after Sharkey's "A Good Heart" topped the chart in November 1985. She rarely performed this song in public until recently,[when?] before she sang it at Dublin Pride.
Her song "If Love Is a Red Dress (Hang Me in Rags)" was personally selected by Quentin Tarantino for his feature film Pulp Fiction. It is the only original song on the soundtrack.
In 1992, she released the song "Sweetest Child", which was produced by Youth and featured Robert "Throb" Young from the band Primal Scream.
Following her debut, McKee released five studio records and two live albums. The album Life Is Sweet featured her lead guitar work described as "feral" by the British Mojo magazine, which listed it as a runner-up to album of the year in their critics’ poll. The raw, postmodern album (produced by Mark Freegard) was a marked shift from her previous roots rock style. Her later three records, High Dive (2003), Peddlin' Dreams (2005) and Late December (2007), were released independently via her own label, Viewfinder Records (distributed in the UK via Cooking Vinyl).