I grew up with Hank Williams Sr. and Patsy Cline. This girl delivers emotion that burns through your chest, melts your heart, then resuscitates it and breathes life back into your soul. This is what music is, was, and does. Simply movingly beautiful Maria! Much admiration, affection and hugz to ya! Your newest Big EZ fan and legacy musician-songwriter, Cadillac Jack
although she sings beautifully , the look she has when performing with lone justice is that of janice joplin before she died. makes me wonder about marias drug habits. she sure has the look. anyway she sings with more emotion than anyone i have ever seen. beautiful
does anyone have lone justice performing,"cry baby" they can upload? they did a kick ass version in 1985 at their shows. it was always one of the last songs, probably one of the encores.
well , it's been 2Oyears since i have heard this music , and i have to say , it still has the same effect on me today as it did then , great voice , great band . i love this girl.
I like Patty Loveless well enough - as mainstream country music singers go, she's as good as any of them. BUT...anyone who thinks Patty Loveless' version is superior to Lone Justice/Maria McKee's version deserves to have ice picks driven through their eardrums.
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Are you kidding me? She can't compare to Patty Loveless! She over sings like Jessica Simpson and her pitch is all over the place. you people must be tone deaf.
@MsChica64 Talent doesn't always translate to big stardom. Look at today's pop charts, that says it all. Maria has the integrity to do what she wants artistically and won't compromise her music or dumb herself down to appeal to the mainstream.
Seen her a couple of times and after on gig I had the fortune of hanging with her after the show and she's just such a lovely person. She stayed outside hanging and talking with the fans for over an hour sitting on a park bench. Love her for ever!
Achei essa banda por um acaso e gostei achei legal, eu só não gostei de ñ ter encontrado muitas legendas. Tive dificuldades em buscar a tradução da letras da música.
Well it seems that everyone weve known Their loves grown cold, ours kinda strong One by one they break, its such a shame And now you say you wanna do the same Dont toss us away so thoughtlessly It just aint right, oh cant you see I still love you I want you to stay Darlin please, dont toss us away Just think of all that weve been through The world we were building, me and you How could all those years be tossed away In just one moment, in just one day?
This is my favourite Lone Justice song. Patty Loveless cut the tongue out of it. Maria's aching delivery is smoking, and makes this version a real burner.
In case you didn't know, this song was actually written by her older brother, Brian McLean, of the 60's seminal band, Love. Incredible talent in one family...
Yes I also rememer you in LOGO, I stood right in front of you, a talent and great voice .If you have your dear vinyl dearies, pull them out and enjoy. thank you for posting.. gsmom.
NEVER saw this before.Thought it was patty loveless song.great song by patty.HOWEVER THIS IS SMOKING.WOW.I will leave it at that.ok maybe MERCY.Fantastic.
in the philippines, we don't have chances of knowing bands like lone justice so im glad to find a cassette on sale bout 20yrs ago that i still play today. to those very few filipinos who know maria,too, i say hello.
This song made the Texas Monthly's list of 100 Greastest Country & Western songs a few years back and deservedly so. She has "cry" in her voice, coupled with that vibrato that I only wish I had in my voice. She's such an amazing singer.
I'm sorry... I don't wanna get flamed.... She is truely amazing... all the rocker all the everything... sorry I didn't know anything about her... now I do... she is amazing! to sat the least! I'm a new fan for sure!!
One more comment... LOL Can you tell I am excited?? Anyway.... My alltime favorite female vocal would be Stevie Nicks. Bet she could do a GREAT job working with her songs! I'm gonna keep coming back to see if she ever will. I can just imagine...... her vocal range and everything about her voice, I am sure she could do Stevies songs justice just like this song of Patti's....... I'm dying to hear something!
Listening over and over... can't get enough of her doing this song. Romanticism of Elvis and intensity of Janis... it's the feeling of how powerfully she is into this song. Not meaning to compare her to either but to me she has the power of both and I don't think thats a bad thing and also, I wouldn't say something like that about many. It's meant as a deffinite compliment. Not many can compare to our late greats. Love.
OH MY G** This was the most intense performance I have seen in a long time! I don't know anything about her but I will soon. This might sound strange and I am sure it will but, to me, this lady is like crossing Janis Joplin and Elvis in this song. It's truely amazing to me and I totally love it! I'll be checking more out because now I am in awe.... thanks
EXCELLENT!! i've loved Maria's voice for 23 years now. bought their 1st cassette on a whim and loved it! she does a terrific job in this video. great music...so simple, but pure!!!
Brittney, Mariah, and all those other 'sound the same' blonde "singers", with the exception of Natalie Maines...Watch Maria, and LEARN something ! Although I don't think you could EVER even TOUCH her talent !
amazing voice: first lone justice album: "soap soup & salvation" - i love the vocal unaccompanied "when the road is callin' me yonder, (i'll be there) x
And of course Breathe! I almost forgot. But no original Breathe studio video in YouTube. Perhaps it was never made? There is one video in here with the original Breathe audio track, but the video itself is with someone else. There is a video of Maria doing Breathe live though.
Maria Mckee, the most amazing singer the west have ever known. Her voice represents emotion, passion and power. A graceful voice from a graceful woman. If someone put a gun on my forehead and said choose one Lone Justice or Maria Mckee song, I would probably choose this one. If I did have a choice, I would have chosen this one or Dixie Storms. Ways to be wicked is splendid also. But I can't find Dixie Stormes in YouTube. Anyone who have a Dixie Storms video?
Why do you keep comparing her to Madonna? Although I agree with you that she has way more talent, it's like comparing Loretta Lynn with Aretha Franklin. They are completely different.
I saw them play in a setting like this in RI around this time. You could have turned off the mike because Maria's voice was so strong. Haven't heard anything like it since...thanks for posting this...brings back some great memories...
Listen to that voice...it was bursting for a career...you can understand how some of those guys from the biz felt watching her...glad she turned out like she did
Her studio recording is the best you will EVER hear. Guaranteed by the Whip
Whip111 4 months ago
Having seen both Patty and Maria sing this song live... Maria's version slays Patty's hands down.
kobuk 5 months ago
I grew up with Hank Williams Sr. and Patsy Cline. This girl delivers emotion that burns through your chest, melts your heart, then resuscitates it and breathes life back into your soul. This is what music is, was, and does. Simply movingly beautiful Maria! Much admiration, affection and hugz to ya! Your newest Big EZ fan and legacy musician-songwriter, Cadillac Jack
ThBigEZsCadillacJack 6 months ago
although she sings beautifully , the look she has when performing with lone justice is that of janice joplin before she died. makes me wonder about marias drug habits. she sure has the look. anyway she sings with more emotion than anyone i have ever seen. beautiful
musiclover501000 6 months ago
does anyone have lone justice performing,"cry baby" they can upload? they did a kick ass version in 1985 at their shows. it was always one of the last songs, probably one of the encores.
fundies2 6 months ago
well , it's been 2Oyears since i have heard this music , and i have to say , it still has the same effect on me today as it did then , great voice , great band . i love this girl.
vonpirosproductions 6 months ago
I like Patty Loveless well enough - as mainstream country music singers go, she's as good as any of them. BUT...anyone who thinks Patty Loveless' version is superior to Lone Justice/Maria McKee's version deserves to have ice picks driven through their eardrums.
chuckschilling 9 months ago 5
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Are you kidding me? She can't compare to Patty Loveless! She over sings like Jessica Simpson and her pitch is all over the place. you people must be tone deaf.
MsChica64 9 months ago
@MsChica64 Huh? Maria is the best singer EVER.
selinakyle 9 months ago 8
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@selinakyle that must be why shes such a big star.
MsChica64 9 months ago
@MsChica64 Talent doesn't always translate to big stardom. Look at today's pop charts, that says it all. Maria has the integrity to do what she wants artistically and won't compromise her music or dumb herself down to appeal to the mainstream.
selinakyle 9 months ago 6
@selinakyle Thank You! I still can't understand how todays pop stars are regarded as icons despite a lack of real talent.
Maria's voice is amazing!
goldenidol 8 months ago
@MsChica64 look at the big stars of today - they don't have a tenth of Maria's talent - you silly bitch!
nealchi 6 months ago 2
@nealchi While I agree with you about Maria's talent, no need to resort to name-calling, please. :)
selinakyle 6 months ago
@selinakyle that must be why shes such a big star
MsChica64 9 months ago
we saw her at the old longhorn bar in mpls. she was hot then and could really belt it out.im in love all over again
dakotastormm 9 months ago
Seen her a couple of times and after on gig I had the fortune of hanging with her after the show and she's just such a lovely person. She stayed outside hanging and talking with the fans for over an hour sitting on a park bench. Love her for ever!
samlamamma 10 months ago
she always was BRILLIANT .
schribbbber 11 months ago
I so love and miss this group Maria is my all time favorite!!!
deecee3737 1 year ago
This song written by Bryan MacLean, her half brother and guitarist/vocalist with the original LOVE (Arthur Lee et al).
frankdialogue 1 year ago 2
Very well done with such feeling! Loved it!
Have a blessed weekend,
Jeff
DysautonomiaMD 1 year ago
Oh, MARIA !
This may be my favorite of the L. J. self titled (MAY be), and this live version makes me cry. . .
RosalitaBU8 1 year ago
Achei essa banda por um acaso e gostei achei legal, eu só não gostei de ñ ter encontrado muitas legendas. Tive dificuldades em buscar a tradução da letras da música.
vandrolix 1 year ago
beautiful performance. Maria is fantastic
TheDarksEmpyrean 1 year ago
Amazing vox on this live track - even better than on the recorded version.
Wish I could say the same about the rest of the band.
chuckschilling 2 years ago
Wonderful!!!
ghiaccio68 2 years ago 2
One of my favorite voices of all time! Got to love Maria! Just loved this band...back in the day.
EraseAllMemory 2 years ago
This meant everything to me when I was 23 - It still has the same power 24yrs later
wheezil 2 years ago 4
bwl123 2 years ago 3
Dont toss us away, it just aint right
To let love die without a fight
I still love you
I want you to stay
Darlin please, dont toss us away
So now Im askin you once again
To understand, to be my friend
Oh it hurts so bad to think youd go
Still the same, I love you so
bwl123 2 years ago 2
Dont toss us away, theres no reason why
Just because were not perfect
You know, we still could try
I still love you
I want you to stay
Darlin please, dont toss us away
Oh darlin please
Dont toss us away
bwl123 2 years ago 2
The second line of the first verse is their loves grown cold, their hearts turn to stone.
88wildcat 2 years ago
"their loves grown cold, their hearts have turned to stone"
"the work, the building, me and you"
blueeyedcherokee 2 years ago
I am starting an alt-country band!
rcknbkr403 2 years ago
I love you!
rcknbkr403 2 years ago 4
We was all stoned at one time.....
enforcer4444 2 years ago 5
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sounds like shes stoned..no patty fo sure
standaman54 2 years ago
WOW! Country meets Janis Joplin! Awesome voice!
Nikahnskwew 2 years ago 9
This is my favourite Lone Justice song. Patty Loveless cut the tongue out of it. Maria's aching delivery is smoking, and makes this version a real burner.
cjuntrin 2 years ago 27
In case you didn't know, this song was actually written by her older brother, Brian McLean, of the 60's seminal band, Love. Incredible talent in one family...
Xcitableboy 2 years ago 3
I love her love her. Maria you will always be one of my faves!
thestrippersons 3 years ago 6
Yes I also rememer you in LOGO, I stood right in front of you, a talent and great voice .If you have your dear vinyl dearies, pull them out and enjoy. thank you for posting.. gsmom.
geridionarus 3 years ago
She is beautiful in voice and looks..I have been a fan over 20 years...hurt me
ibgizmo 3 years ago 6
shes so beautiful ,love her hair, and god that voice!!
swomac8199 3 years ago 21
wow that is awesome hair! i bought there debut album on VINAL lol .God I'm gettin old lol!
BPF57 3 years ago
NEVER saw this before.Thought it was patty loveless song.great song by patty.HOWEVER THIS IS SMOKING.WOW.I will leave it at that.ok maybe MERCY.Fantastic.
habdon 3 years ago 3
she is simply amazing...was & is...
TheDarksEmpyrean 3 years ago 5
ohh... I won't be needing Viagra tonight, I'll just watch this again... heavenly voice, heavenly woman!!
DeceasedDeath 3 years ago
FUCKING AMAZING!!!!!
redjury 3 years ago
in the philippines, we don't have chances of knowing bands like lone justice so im glad to find a cassette on sale bout 20yrs ago that i still play today. to those very few filipinos who know maria,too, i say hello.
barnevy 4 years ago 6
This song made the Texas Monthly's list of 100 Greastest Country & Western songs a few years back and deservedly so. She has "cry" in her voice, coupled with that vibrato that I only wish I had in my voice. She's such an amazing singer.
ScoutOMalley 4 years ago 4
well said oneill33 i couldn't agree more! chordially yours jbbutterfield, oh and just listen 2 mckees voice!
jbbutterfield 4 years ago
Country rock and 25 years ahead of the whole kid Rock/Gretchen/Big & Rich thing. Awesome.
oneillj33 4 years ago 2
Have you heard their whole first album--Lone Justice? It was great!!! How did they/she mix country, rock, blue....so well? That's amazing!!!!!
kiddingme99 4 years ago 3
Just amazing. Her performance of this song just sounds better and better as the years roll on. What a gift.
kmcleod31721 4 years ago 5
I'm sorry... I don't wanna get flamed.... She is truely amazing... all the rocker all the everything... sorry I didn't know anything about her... now I do... she is amazing! to sat the least! I'm a new fan for sure!!
dltimms 4 years ago
One more comment... LOL Can you tell I am excited?? Anyway.... My alltime favorite female vocal would be Stevie Nicks. Bet she could do a GREAT job working with her songs! I'm gonna keep coming back to see if she ever will. I can just imagine...... her vocal range and everything about her voice, I am sure she could do Stevies songs justice just like this song of Patti's....... I'm dying to hear something!
dltimms 4 years ago
Lone Justice recorded this BEFORE Patti Loveless. Maria's brother Brian wrote this song!!!
brucekap2 4 years ago
Check out her web site. She put out some solo work a while back. Jimmy Iovine produced for Lone Justine (about the time he quit producung Stevie).
jimmmmy41 4 years ago
Listening over and over... can't get enough of her doing this song. Romanticism of Elvis and intensity of Janis... it's the feeling of how powerfully she is into this song. Not meaning to compare her to either but to me she has the power of both and I don't think thats a bad thing and also, I wouldn't say something like that about many. It's meant as a deffinite compliment. Not many can compare to our late greats. Love.
dltimms 4 years ago 2
OH MY G** This was the most intense performance I have seen in a long time! I don't know anything about her but I will soon. This might sound strange and I am sure it will but, to me, this lady is like crossing Janis Joplin and Elvis in this song. It's truely amazing to me and I totally love it! I'll be checking more out because now I am in awe.... thanks
dltimms 4 years ago
Wow! I hope I never have to choose between this version and Patty Loveless' version.
formerrocker 4 years ago
EXCELLENT!! i've loved Maria's voice for 23 years now. bought their 1st cassette on a whim and loved it! she does a terrific job in this video. great music...so simple, but pure!!!
jeetaa6 4 years ago
Brittney, Mariah, and all those other 'sound the same' blonde "singers", with the exception of Natalie Maines...Watch Maria, and LEARN something ! Although I don't think you could EVER even TOUCH her talent !
God Bless You, Maria McKee !!!!!!!!
Dombrowski1959 4 years ago
amazing voice: first lone justice album: "soap soup & salvation" - i love the vocal unaccompanied "when the road is callin' me yonder, (i'll be there) x
morningsnoopy 4 years ago
And of course Breathe! I almost forgot. But no original Breathe studio video in YouTube. Perhaps it was never made? There is one video in here with the original Breathe audio track, but the video itself is with someone else. There is a video of Maria doing Breathe live though.
PlayerNumber9 4 years ago
Maria Mckee, the most amazing singer the west have ever known. Her voice represents emotion, passion and power. A graceful voice from a graceful woman. If someone put a gun on my forehead and said choose one Lone Justice or Maria Mckee song, I would probably choose this one. If I did have a choice, I would have chosen this one or Dixie Storms. Ways to be wicked is splendid also. But I can't find Dixie Stormes in YouTube. Anyone who have a Dixie Storms video?
PlayerNumber9 4 years ago
When she first came out I thought that she would take Madonna's thunder away from her. I wish that she would have because she is so talented.
LadyDemocrat
ChgoChef 4 years ago
Why do you keep comparing her to Madonna? Although I agree with you that she has way more talent, it's like comparing Loretta Lynn with Aretha Franklin. They are completely different.
weirdowaldo 4 years ago
vocal is simply stunning. Wow!
pdscotia 4 years ago 3
anyone got a video of "sweetest child" ?
the vocals here are just amazing, the impassioned plea. xx
morningsnoopy 4 years ago
I saw them play in a setting like this in RI around this time. You could have turned off the mike because Maria's voice was so strong. Haven't heard anything like it since...thanks for posting this...brings back some great memories...
bent139 5 years ago
Listen to that voice...it was bursting for a career...you can understand how some of those guys from the biz felt watching her...glad she turned out like she did
ClownPoet 5 years ago
Thank's a lot. And next one please: Show me heaven ( I
shiver down my spine)
hansen4 5 years ago
gives me chills and breaks my heart
TheeZulu 5 years ago
What a voice Maria had and has, and what a great live band the original Lone Justice was. Awesome. Thanks!
jt20042 5 years ago
thanks , great song
ltor 5 years ago 2