Commercial Success
One year later, she received her first songwriting credit for an artist named Terri Gibbs, who had recently received the CMA's Horizon Award. From that sprang a continuing career of over 200 songwriting credits including genres of country, bluegrass, Americana, AAA, pop, and blues. In 1999, McLean received a Dove Award for Country Gospel song of the year for "Count Your Blessing" which was recorded by The Martins. 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. Her own publishing company, Kim McLean Music houses most of her Gospel copyrights.
Her songs have been used on several major network TV shows including JAG, Early Edition, As The World Turns, The West Wing, and Hope & Faith, which also included a cameo appearance by McLean. 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.
In 2001, McLean returned to her maiden name, and launched a solo artist career of her own with the creation of Hippie Chick Twang Records. Her album, Happy Face contains the song "Angels and Eagles" with Dolly Parton starring as background singer. The title cut of the album, Kim McLean composed with Kenny Alphin, Big Kenny of Big and Rich.
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