One of his early and least known exploits was playing Hawaiian steel guitar on a long-running television commercial for C&H sugar. Some of his other early and non-Doobie Brothers work includes playing pedal steel guitar on Van Morrison\'s Tupelo Honey and Saint Dominic\'s Preview albums, and recording with many other artists, including Steve Miller on his Fly Like An Eagle album, the Grateful Dead on their From the Mars Hotel album, and recordings with Boz Scaggs, Emmylou Harris, Link Wray, Rick James, Janis Ian, Ricky Scaggs, The Brothers Four, Nick Lowe, Wanda Jackson, Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones, Crystal Gayle, Mike Bloomfield, John Michael Montgomery, the Beach Boys, Norton Buffalo, Twiggy, Eikichi Yazawa, Chicago, and The Kendalls. He played for a number of years with Huey Lewis in the group Clover and also played on Huey Lewis and the News\' Sports and Hard at Play albums. McFee also played with Glen Campbell, for his Meet Glen Campbell live video performance.\n', '

McFee has played on a number of Elvis Costello\'s albums, beginning with all the lead and pedal steel guitar work on My Aim is True, where his lead guitar work on "Alison" was perhaps most notable. He has also continued to perform live with Costello periodically through the years. However, McFee is perhaps best known as a longtime member of the Doobie Brothers.\n', '

He joined the Doobie Brothers in early 1979, replacing departing guitarist Jeff Baxter. McFee was first featured on the Doobie\'s ninth studio album One Step Closer, which achieved RIAA platinum album status. Although he didn\'t sing lead vocals on the song, he co-wrote the title track with Doobies drummer Keith Knudsen and Carlene Carter, as well as writing the Grammy nominated instrumental "South Bay Strut" with co-drummer Chet McCracken. The album also reunited McFee with Doobies producer Ted Templeman, McFee having played on Templeman\'s first hit record as a producer (Van Morrison\'s "Wild Night" from the "Tupelo Honey" album).\n', '

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