Other artists who've recorded Kim McLean songs include Tim McGraw, The Happy Goodmans, Trisha Yearwood, Jennifer Hanson, Lee Ann Womack, Billy Gilman, Sierra, and more.
Since her first publishing deal with Little Big Town, she has also written for EMI, Centergy, King Lizard, New Haven, Worley World, Skyline, and Sony-Tree.
Rick Schroder used "All We Ever Find", a McLean composition recorded by Tim McGraw, for the feature film Black Cloud, about a Native American boxer who made the Olympic boxing team.
At the same time she began her artist career, she used her songwriting royalties to reclaim a lost dream of a college education, cut short in her teen-age years due to an almost fatal struggle with an eating disorder.
Treatment, recovery, and years of hoping led her to Trevecca Nazarene University (TNU) in Nashville, just a stone's throw from Music Row.