titled album in 1991. She also recorded the duet "This Road is Long" with Stuart A. Staples of the band Tindersticks on his 2006 album Leaving Songs. In addition she co-wrote a duet titled "Promise You Anything" with Steve Earle, which appeared on his 1990 album The Hard Way. She teamed up with Dwight Yoakam for a duet on "Bury Me," from his 1986 debut, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. She contributed the lyrics and vocals to the song "No Big Bang" on the only album by The Heads, No Talking, Just Head, also playing guitar and synthesizer on the song together with the band, mostly ex-members of Talking Heads. In 2016, she performed the Blind Willie Johnson song "Let Your Light Shine On Me" on the tribute album God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson. Film work In 2013, McKee and her husband, Jim Akin, self-released their first independent feature film, After the Triumph of Your Birth, through their production company, Shootist Films. The film was written, directed, shot, recorded, and edited by Akin and features McKee (who co-produced) in her acting debut as an ensemble cast member. They scored the film together and the soundtrack was released in 2012. Shootist Films' second feature film The Ocean of Helena Lee (featuring her in a supporting role) was released May 2015 with accompanying soundtrack. The film played a week run at The American Cinematheque at The Egyptian Theater. Akin, McKee and drummer Tom Dunne (also an actor and lead player in the film) performed a set of music after each screening. The film screened in competition at The Indie Memphis Film Festival and The Pesaro International Film Festival as well as out of competition in The Fastnet Film Festival in Schull, Ireland. It received a four out of four star review on RogerEbert.com. Shootist Films' latest release Beauty Majesty and Terror will be released in 2019. It features her in the leading role. Published fiction In 2009, McKee's short story, "Charcoal", was included in the Melville House Publishing short fiction anthology Amplified: Fiction from Leading Alt-Country, Indie Rock, Blues and Folk Musicians. In 2018, an audio version of "Charcoal" was recorded by voice actor Patrice Gambardella and published on Bibliophone, a free audio book platform. Personal life McKee is married to musician and filmmaker Jim Akin. She came out in 2018 as pansexual, and referred to herself as