[2] She released her debut album, Unwanted Child, in 1997 and has worked with notable blues musicians including Albert King, Tommy Bankhead, Bobby Bland, Little Milton, Oliver Sain, and Ike Turner.
[2] She moved with her family in 1966 to St. Louis, Missouri,[1] and here as a teenager McDaniel met Muddy Waters.
[2] Her musical education continued as she frequented a string of nightclubs including Ned Love's, Club Caravan, Cass, and Dynaflow at Glasgow.
She later performed with Tommy Bankhead, Bobby Bland, Little Milton, Oliver Sain, and Ike Turner among others.
[2] It followed a family tragedy, as her husband and the keyboard player in her backing band, the Magnatones, Albert "Falstaff" Foster, (1941–1997)[1] had died earlier the same year.