Bob Dylan wrote the song "Go Away Little Boy" for the band's debut album, Lone Justice, which later appeared as a B-side.

When she was 19, McKee wrote Feargal Sharkey's 1985 song "A Good Heart", which she has since recorded and released herself on her album Late December.

In 1987, she appeared in the Robbie Robertson music video "Somewhere Down the Crazy River" (directed by Martin Scorsese), and contributed back-up vocals to his debut solo album, which included the song.

[5] Her song "If Love Is a Red Dress (Hang Me in Rags)" was personally selected by Quentin Tarantino for his feature film Pulp Fiction.

In 1992, she released the song "Sweetest Child", which was produced by Youth and featured Robert "Throb" Young from the band Primal Scream.

[6] In 2003, during their Top of the World Tour, The Chicks invited opening act Joan Osborne back to the stage to perform the song with them on several occasions.

On the album, her performance of the Tony Joe White song "Ol' Mother Earth" was meshed with "I Still Exist" by the Egyptian band Massar Egbari.

[8] She recorded a medley of "Ride a White Swan" and "She Was Born to Be My Unicorn" for the Marc Bolan tribute album Angel Headed Hipster, produced by Hal Willner.

[citation needed] The album also includes tracks by Gavin Friday, Father John Misty and Nick Cave.

She has also provided backing vocals to U2's cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son" (B-side of 1992 "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" single from their Achtung Baby album), as well as to Counting Crows' 1993 debut August and Everything After on "Sullivan Street" and "Mr. Jones".

Much lesser known is her contribution of lead and co-lead vocals on two tracks on a contemporary Christian praise and worship album called Come As You Are.

The film was written, directed, shot, recorded, and edited by Akin and features McKee (who co-produced) in her acting debut as an ensemble cast member.

Akin, McKee and drummer Tom Dunne (also an actor and lead player in the film) performed a set of music after each screening.