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On The RecordMaria McKee’s doingjust fine on her ownA few nights ago, Neil Young walked over to Maria McKee and asked her if thatwasn’t her father who performed ’'Orange Sky” with the L A.-based band Love all thoseyears ago.Mckee had to laugh. No, she told Young, that was her brother, Bryan Mac Lean.The mistake is a logical one,for the 24-year-old McKee’sgene pool precedes her by nearly a generation. MacLean, 42, tools around in a home studio these days, and it’s McKee’s turn to be a star. Sheopens for Young at a solo acoustic date tomorrow night at Veteran’s Park in Manchester, N.H.The diminutive McKee, whohas just released her solo debut, was the vocal powerhouse voice behind Lone Justice, one of the most heavily-touted bands of the ’80s.»♦thing,” said McKee by phonefrom Chicago this week. Especially when you’re a teenager and you’ve just been plucked out of the land of garage bands. Then you’re suddenly the great white hope. 1 mean, what are you supposed to do next? I think of the wholething as a learning experience.11The band split, amicably,”says McKee, about two vjare ago. McKee enlisted 1 ne Justice keyboardist Br Brody and took her countr*-tried gospel vocals home to pen the tunes for her self-titled debut.The record is spare and mostly acoustic, showcasing McKee’s voice and songs peopled by characters in love or out oflove.I left it so simple because Ididn’t want anything to get inthe way of the characters. I wanted it to be as detailed aspossible.”McKee made her solo debutDave Perryitual part of the country. Thebeauty of it physically. There’sa lot of hardship there, and that and beauty sometimes go hand-in-hand. It’s not something that’s easy to explain.” Spirituality runs through McKee’s work frequently, such as Shelter,” which could have been written to a God or aAll the hype was a negative lover.ftI was raised religiously,” says McKee, but I think my own relationship transcends religion. A lot of my writing isbased on faith.”McKee says she’s er\joying her sparer sound now, but she may fill it out in the future.I don’t want to have a setband, maybe work with arotating group of people.Perhaps I’ll try some extremes.I’m completely open to thingsat this point, but I’m thinkingof doing some things withsparse instrumentation, thenbringing on a full-fledged rockand roll band, really kick itout. I have a garage band in mind. But for now, I don’t evenhave enough money to take asound guy on the road with11me.Tickets for the show are $19.50 for reserved seats, $16 on the lawn. For more information call 603-627-7469.□PUMPING IT UP: Inin Dublin, Ireland, where U2’s what’s being billed as an ex-Adam Clayton joined her on-clusive,” WAAF of Worcesterstage.I’m going back Oct. 14, andI can’t wait,” says McKee.(107.3 FM) will put the new Aerosmith album, Pump, on the air Sept. 6 at 10 p.m. The band will also be on hand liveThere are a lot of things ab-in the studio. The record isn’tout Ireland, especially the spir- due in stores until Sept. 13.
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