[1] She worked as a pianist as early as age 14, but had few professional female musician role models and chose to pursue a degree in accounting from Millsaps College.
After deciding to change her career path, McKee moved to Austin, TX, and became an active part of the music scene.
Two months after McKee joined the band Jimmy Buffett, signed Evangeline to his MCA Nashville imprint, Margaritaville Records, and toured as his opening act.
[4] The Swamp Sistas originated as a Facebook group in 2010 as a way for McKee to stay connected with women friends she met while on tour as a solo artist throughout the South.
On The Morton Report, Bill Bentley described her 2015 release Sugarcane Revival as "kind of like if Laura Nyro had been roommates with Carole King and Bonnie Raitt on Decatur Street in the French Quarter during the ‘70s."