"Show me heaven" - Maria McKee
How to have a hit:
1) Write a brilliant tune in one night.
2) Get it on a hit movie soundtrack.
3) Perform superbly on #TOTP
4) Soar from nowhere to number one
5) Get fans for life
6) Profit!!!
Far from her greatest song, and Maria's had a difficult relationship with it, but by gum is she brilliant.
Maria McKee, Maria McKee, 1989 on Geffen
This was the debut solo album from the lead singer of Lone Justice. She’s joined here by Richard Thompson and Marc Ribot on guitar and Steve Wickham on fiddle.
She’d go on to record six more solo records and some live recordings – but I don’t think any of them did very well in the US – she had more success in Europe.
My copy—via Electric Fetus in Minneapolis MN—is a 1989 Specialty Records pressing, with original inner liner.
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Maria McKee - self-titled
Her first solo album after Lone Justice, this retains much of the country punk of that band, but has a much broader range , with blues, soul and rock, finishing with a version of Has He Got A Friend For Me by Richard Thompson (who plays on this album)
Only once did I think twice
And twice was once too late
-- Only Once - Maria McKee
Maria Mckee - Show Me Heaven (1990)
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Lone Justice - Shelter 1986 performance - YouTube
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Lone Justice, Deferred: Maria McKee, Marvin Etzioni and Ryan Hedgecock on Combining Vintage and Fresh Recordings for the Band’s First ‘New’ Album in 38 Years
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Lone Justice - Ways To Be Wicked - 1985 performance - YouTube
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Lone Justice - Ways To Be Wicked, as broadcast, May 31st 1985. Recorded from analogue broadcast using Sony C6 MK2 Betamax VCR, Maxell L-750 tape. Tape archiv...
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