All songs, sound recordings and photos on this double CD are Copyright Vicky McKee and available for use in film,
television and other creative contexts for negotiatiable fees. No music or photograh from the CD is to be reproduced in any
way without written permission from the Copyright holder, Vicky McKee
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Vicky McKee, a versatile and prolific newcomer to the singer/songwriter scene from a career as a writer in other media,
has many more songs already recorded, and can also be commissioned to write songs specifically for any project - for
herself and her band or other artists to perform/record. Lyric sheets/musical notation available upon request.

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From the evocative opening ‘All Aboard’ clang of Hard Road to the closing chase for the pot of gold at the end of Rainbow, Vicky McKee’s double CD of
36 original compositions, "Vicky McKee In The All-Together" invites listeners on a rollercoaster of a musical - and emotional - journey.

Careering from Country to Blues, Folk to Rock, serious to silly, soulful to sensuous, it offers a dazzling demonstration of diversity from a songwriter who only
began her musical adventuring at the turn of the Millennium and has worked ‘all-together’ with other musicians for the first time on this album (in particular with
the versatile Jem Vipond, from the UK, and Jack Pearson of the U.S. ).

Vicky McKee, an American living in Britain for most of her life, came to songwriting in what she "optimistically calls mid-life", as she puts it - having been for
many years a writer in other media. But her work is anything but ‘middle-of-the-road’.. She has jokingly dubbed it ‘uneasy listening’ because it inevitably packs
a powerful punch, whether rockin’ & shockin’ (like Lies) , slow and subtle (like They Say I’m Crazy), warm and whimsical (Warm Room, Honey Just You
Is Enough), heavy blues ( Rock & Hard Place and Lazy Sunday) or haunting ballads ( Don’t Say You’ll Love Me Forever). She has already had over
100 songs copyrighted by the Guild of International Songwriters & Composers in the UK, of which she is a member. And they keep coming.

Vicky McKee claims she never consciously tried to write a song: "They just happen - inspired by conversation, observation and experiences." The powerful
‘September 11 Song’ - When You Know Where You Want To Die Then You Know Where You Want to Live - came to her when she found herself back in her ‘home town’, New York City, dealing with her mother’s death there, and was caught up in the events of that fateful day.

Nor did she ever try to write in a particular style. "The words arrived with their own insistent rhythms," McKee, a wicked wordsmith, maintains.

So the gentle love song Jigsaw is followed by the raunchy Foodie Blues - punctuated by the clatter of pots and pans - the suggestively sensual Some Men by
the fast-moving Outlaw, romantic Beautiful Day by mischievous Lies, hard-edged Fine Line by humorous Cutting Edge, the searing social commentary
of Expensive Women by the light-hearted little blues, That Girl Really Likes You, and the surrealistically silly Signposts by the seriously soul-searching
Another Road.

Almost all her work is seasoned with a wry twist of humour, and benefits from her sophisticated skill with words. Sexual Intellectual - suggested by ringside wrestling rants - Good Enough’s Not Good Enough For Me, Beside Myself (With You Beside Me) and Are You Making Out? are among those that dazzlingly demonstrate her delight in wordplay. Even her most serious, soulful songs are spiced with wit.

She looks at love not only from both sides but from many angles, singing as and to different types of lovers, from the self-justifying Jezebel of Lord Knows I Never Meant To Take Your Man to the long-suffering worm who finally turns in Rain Check, from the charming deceiver in Red, White & Blue to the Dream Lover inspired by an 100 year old woman who had revealed that what had kept her going for so many years was having a ‘dream lover’ who came to her every night.

"Fantasy is a powerful force," affirms Vicky McKee, who exploits it powerfully in this eclectic and exciting collection from a powerful new force on the
songwriting scene.
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On the following pages she offers hopefully helpful guidance for busy Music Supervisors and Directors and others who may not - at least initially - find the time
to play the entire ‘All-Together’ double CD. She has also compiled several shorter demos, containing capsule collections of songs by category, which are
available on request.

ROAD SONGS [some also ‘Uneasy Listening’ songs of social commentary-see below]

‘Hard Road’ (CD1, Track 1) - traditional ‘train song’ for life’s perpetual hoboes

‘Fine Line’ (CD1, 14) - song of lost love and losing yourself in life’s ratrace

‘Signposts’ (CD1, 16) - surreal silliness suggesting signposts on life’s road

‘Another Road’ (CD1, 17) - soulful solace for those at the end of their road or tether

‘Running’ (CD2, 16) - midlife metaphor on running for fear of life passing you by

‘Rainbow’ (CD2, 18) - about abandoning the frantic chase for the pot of gold


SWEET, LYRICAL LOVE BALLADS

‘How Can It Be A Beautiful Day If You’re Leaving?’ (CD1, Track 2) Title says it.

‘Honey, Just You Is Enough’ (CD2, 2) Movingly mellow but powerful vow of love

‘Jigsaw’ (CD2,7) Simple, almost classical, ode to love that always enraptures audiences

‘Some Men’(CD2,12) Flirty, folky review of male lovers-good,bad,ugly and VERY good

‘They Say I’m Crazy’ (CD2, 14) About ‘outsider/outcast’ love, against Society’s norm

‘Warm Room’ (CD2, 17) Love song that could also have religious reverberations


QUIRKY, RAUNCHY, RUDE AND/OR ROCKY LOVE SONGS

‘Honey I Want A Lotta Things (And All of Them Are Here!)’(CD1, Track 6) Rockin!

‘Sexual Intellectual’ (CD1, 9) [see also ‘Wordplays’ below] Daring erotic wordplay

‘Cutting Edge’ (CD1, 15) Comic rock on how our ‘cutting edge’ is blunted by love

‘Something Happened’ (CD2, 5) Dramatic ‘coup d’eclat’ love - powerful and pacy

‘Dream Lover’ (CD2, 9) Sexy fantasy rock


SONGS OF LOVE LOST, DELUDED OR UNREQUITED

‘Lies’ (CD1, Track 3) About lies, whitewash and wishful thinking in love

‘Rain Check’ (CD 1, Track 7) This lying lover’s last rain check has bounced

[See also ‘Lazy Sunday Blues’, CD 1, 13, ‘Fine Line’, CD1, 14, ‘Cutting Edge’, CD1, 15), ‘Loser’s Game’, CD2,10), ‘Outlaw’, CD 2, 13]

EPIC SONGS

‘Don’t Say You’ll Love Me Forever’ (CD1, Track 4)

Seize The Day!

‘September 11 Song: When You Know Where You Want To Die Then You Know Where You Want To Live (CD1, 18)
So if you’re not there now, why not?


WORDPLAYS & HORSEPLAY

‘Are You Making Out?’ (CD2, Track 6) Short and sparkling

‘Foodie Blues’ (CD2, 8) Risque food rhymes - perfect for a foodie film or program

‘Beside Myself (With You Beside Me) (CD2, 11) Exuberant double-take of delight

‘Outlaw’ (CD2, 13) By the deluded lover of a Wild West outlaw. Perfect for a Western!

[See also ‘Sexual Intellectual’, CD1, 9, ‘Good Enough.’ (CD2, 3) ]


BLUES

‘Laughing&Crying’(CD1, Track 8) Laughing with and crying over a lover loved by two

‘That Girl Really Likes You’ (CD1, 12) Sparked by a simple smile

‘Lazy Sunday Blues’ (CD1, 13) About not being able to do anything now lover’s gone

‘Rock&Hard Place’(CD2, 1) If you’re stuck between them,save some space there for me

[See also ‘Foodie Blues’, CD2,8, and ‘You Don’t Choose To Sing The Blues’, CD2,15]


COUNTRY

‘Red, White & Blue’ (CD1, Track 5) Colorful cry over the loss of a star-spangled lover

‘You’ll Never Find Anyone As Good For You As Me’ (CD1,10) You tell him, Girl!

‘Lord Knows I Never Meant To Take Your Man’ (CD2, 4) Scheming Jezebel sings

‘Loser’s Game’ (CD2, 10) Funny ode to finding yourself - and dumping golddiggers


SOCIAL COMMENTARY/’UNEASY LISTENING’ [see also ‘Road Songs’above]

‘Expensive Women’(CD1, Track 11) ‘There’s a look Expensive Women have -
You know, the ones that have facials with those fancy salves? Yes, there’s a look
Expensive Women have - the ones who pull up to restaurants in limos and cabs. Yes,
there’s a look Expensive Women have can make the rest of us feel cheap & tacky & drab.
Oh there’s a look Expensive Women have - but it can come with an expensive tab..’

‘Good Enough’s Not Good Enough For Me’ (CD2, 3) [see also ‘Wordplays’ above]
‘Many women they make the same mistake - of settling for the crumbs of the cake!
And the chances are they’ve baked it,cleaned up afterwards then went to bed & faked it!
All for some not good enough guy’s sake! Now‘good enough’s not good enough for me..’

‘You Don’t Choose To Sing The Blues’ (CD2, 15) ‘The Blues is for losers and out-of-work
bruisers, late night cruisers and no hope boozers - privileged choosers don’t sing the Blues...
What would Muddy Waters have sung if that water’d been clear?
Otis have sighed about if that Dock had been nearer?
No, you don’t choose to sing the Blues (It chooses you, and you can’t refuse!)’ ‘

Please note that Vicky McKee has over 100 songs copyrighted to date, with many more already available and recorded, in each of these
categories. She will also undertake specific commissions for writing songs for all sorts of projects - film, stage, television, radio, commercials,
etc. - to be performed/recorded by herself and her band or by other musicians.