Maria Mckee had a massive worldwide hit with "Show Me Heaven" in 1990, but the follow up single went nowhere, even though it was great, and she never returned to the mainstream again despite writing songs for other artists. Was this song just too leftfield for the masses?

didn't she have another hit called "shelter"? i thought it was a pretty decent song.

StarCat said:

I never heard anything from her again. I mentioned her recently to a few people and none of them had heard of her, but when I told them she sang "Show Me Heaven" they all remembered that.

i just remembered. she was in a group called Lone Justice. and their hit was "shelter" you should check it out.

StarCat said:

I actually didn't care for Shelter, but I absolutely love Lone Justice's debut - it's a really great fore-runner of the alt-country sound. Don't Toss Us Away would probably be familiar to a lot of people from patty loveless's hit version. I've really loved some of McKee's albums. I think her lack of success pretty much boils down to a pretty common fate for many of the better country-ish performers of the last 20 years: too raw for the new cosmopolitan country, not trendy enough for the pop market.
[Edited 5/17/08 17:37pm]

This was her one big hit, in case anyone forgot.