"Wonderful Christmastime" to a Christmas compilation album: Maybe This Christmas Tree released in 2004. In August 2005, McRae visited the country of Niger in Africa at the request of The Observer and wrote an article about the famine titled, "This is not just another act of God – this is ingrained poverty". McRae provided some of the vocals on "Lipstick", a 2008 single by "Wills and the Willing" having written parts of the song after listening to the original material. The song was written in response to the London bombings. Along with Bob Harris, Guy Clark and others, McRae is one of the commentators on the film We Dreamed America, released as a DVD in 2008. This documentary examines the connections between British and American roots music. McRae wrote the song, "Love More or Less" for Marianne Faithfull's album, Give My Love to London and worked on his seventh album, "Did I Sleep and Miss the Border" due for release on 11 May 2015. Use of McRae's songs in film and television McRae contributed music to the soundtracks of the movies Uno (2004) and Unsuitable (2005). His music also featured in the film The Bubble. "São Paulo Rain" was featured in a sixth-season episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode is entitled "Entropy." "Set the Story Straight" was featured in a second-season episode of Kyle xy. "Still Lost" was featured in the third-season episode "Electric Kiss" of Kyle XY. "I Ain't Scared of Lightning" was featured in the second season of British drama Skins. "Karaoke Soul" and "Stronger Than Dirt" appear in the American television series Rescue Me and "Karaoke Soul" is featured in its soundtrack. "2nd Law" and "You Cut Her Hair" were part of the soundtrack for the film Jekyll + Hyde. "Walking 2 Hawaii" was used in Hollyoaks. "You Only Disappear" was featured in an episode of the American drama Without a Trace. "For The Restless" was used in one episode of the German television series Alles was zählt. "You Only Disappear" was used for a contemporary routine choreographed by Dee Caspary on Season 7 of So You Think You Can Dance. "Overthrown" was used in the third-season episode "Everyone Leaves" of Six Feet Under. His cover of Wonderful Christmastime was used in the TV version of film Lost Christmas starring Eddie Izzard but was not used in the DVD version. In 2018 he collaborated with