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Maria McKee

You Gotta Sin to Get Saved

You Gotta Sin to Get Saved

UPC: 014431604324

Format: CD

Release Date: Jan 21, 2004

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Personnel includes: Maria McKee (vocals, guitar, piano); Mark Olson (acoustic guitar, background vocals, harmonica); Gary Louris (electric guitar, background vocals); Spyder Mittleman (saxophone); Memphis Horns (horns); Benmont Tench (piano, Hammond organ, Vox organ, Wurlitzer, background vocals); Bruce Brody (Hammond organ, piano, Wurlitzer, background vocals); Marvin Etzioni (bass, mandolin, guitar, background vocals); Don Was, Bud O'Brien (bass); Don Heffington (drums, percussion, background vocals); Jim Keltner, George Drakoulis (drums); Edna Wright, Julia Waters, Maxine Waters, Jon Auer, Ken Stringfellow (background vocals).
Recorded at A&M Studios and Hollywood Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California.
Pilot To Gunner: Patrick Hegarty (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Scott Padden (vocals, guitar); Martin McLoughlin (guitar, keyboards, bass); Kurt Herrmann (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: J. Robbins (vocals, guitar, keyboards).
Maria McKee made a splash as the big-voiced frontwoman for 1980s roots-rockers Lone Justice, but after the group fell apart, she made the inevitable move toward a solo career, which lasted far longer than her band had. Her second solo album, YOU GOTTA SIN TO GET SAVED, remains her most loved and most commercially successful outing. It still bears some of the country-rocking touches of Lone Justice, and includes the participation of a couple of McKee's former bandmates, but it points a way forward as well. There's a far greater focus on the soul side of McKee's musical personality, with several songs bearing a distinct '60s Stax vibe. But whether McKee's in a twangy mode or an R&B groove, it's her larger-than-life voice that demands the listener's attention.