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Celebrity Birthdays, October 12
Original at Starpulse.com
• 5 hours ago
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Shut Up and Sing
Original at Hello All
• Wed, Oct 8
By Becky Anyhoo, I chose to watch oscar winning documentarian Barbara Koppel's latest film, "Shut Up and Sing". Following the Dixie Chicks from before the infamous "ashamed that Bush is from Texas" slur in London and continues to track the ...
Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way (2006)
Original at Basis Music
• Tue, Oct 7
By Basisfield 03 - Not Ready to Make Nice 04 - Everybody Knows 05 - Bitter End 06 - Lullaby 07 - Lubbock or Leave it 08 - Silent House 09 - Favorite Year 10 - Voice Inside My Head 11 - I Like It 12 - Baby Hold on 13 - So Hard 14 - I Hope ...
Today in History
Original at Laconia Citizen
• Tue, Oct 7
NH - Country singer Natalie Maines (The Dixie Chicks) is 34. Actress-singer Shaznay Lewis (All Saints) is 33. Singer Usher is 30. Actor Jordan Brower is 27. ... all 7 news articles
Toby Keith For President
Original at New West
• Mon, Oct 6
By info@newwest.net So when Chris gave the Dixie Chicks documentary a glowing review, I put it at the top of my list. Shut Up and Sing is an account of the controversy from The Comment, and the ordeal the trio went through on their journey back to the top ...
Seasoned STAR
Original at Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
• Sat, Oct 4
PA - During the 1999 Lilith Fair, an international tour showcasing female vocalists, she also shared the stage with Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks, ...
Bruce Robison keeps it real and mostly country - Austin 360
Original at Austin 360
• Thu, Oct 2
Bruce Robison keeps it real and mostly country subscription), TX - Or just look at some of the beneficiaries of his songs: Faith Hill, Lee Ann Womack and the Dixie Chicks, who scored huge with "Travelin' Soldier. ...
Still in her teens, Taylor Swift has proved she’s the real deal
Original at Appleton Post Crescent
• Wed, Oct 1
USA - She writes her own music — an accessible blend of “Wide Open Spaces”-era Dixie Chicks-styled country and pop (Dixie Chicklets, anyone? ...
Susan Gibson - Fiery Ron's Home Team BBQ (Music)
Original at Charleston City Paper
• Sat, Sep 27
singer/songwriter Susan Gibson (ex-Groobies) is considered a prominent female figure in the Texas Music scene (she's best known as the songwriter behind the Dixie Chicks hit "Wide Open Spaces"); her new 15-song album New Dog, ...
CD Review: The Stairwell Sisters: Get Off Your Money
Original at Blogger News Network
• Wed, Sep 24
- This project was produced by Lloyd Maines, who has worked with The Dixie Chicks and Terri Hendrix among others. Kerry Dexter is a contributing writer at the ...
Brittany Ann
Original at Metromix
• Thu, Sep 18
IL - I've always really liked the Dixie Chicks a lot. Even though my music isn't country at all, I'd love to do the Natalie Maines kind of thing ...
James Hand finishes recording new CD
Original at Country Standard Time
• Mon, Sep 15
The disc was produced by Ray Benson (Asleep at the Wheel) and Lloyd Maines (Dixie Chicks). Hand will participate in the Americana Music Festival this week with a show Friday at the Country music Hall of Fame....
Album review: Metallica's return to speed metal feels Olympian
Original at MiamiHerald.com
• Sat, Sep 13
FL - Diamond and who guided the Dixie Chicks to an Album of the Year Grammy for 2006's Taking the Long Way, does the same rejuvenating act for Metallica. ...
Neil Diamond stays the course
Original at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• Wed, Aug 13
PA - It was Rubin who suggested that Diamond record "Another Day" from the new album with Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks. Rubin also enlisted keyboardist ...
It's a new world for Bruce Robison
Original at Country Standard Time
• Mon, Aug 11
Bruce Robison, who has enjoyed hits with acts like Tim McGraw and the Dixie Chicks, is putting out a new album in September. "The New World" is due out Sept. 2 on Premium Records. Robison has penned Top 10 singles for Faith Hill & Tim McGraw ("Angry All the Time"), and George Strait ("Desper...
Dixie Chicks' Emily Robison Divorces Husband Charlie
Original at Associated Content
• Thu, Aug 7
• 3 related articles
Dixie Chick bandmates Martie Maguire and Natalie Maines have each had one failed marriage and one successful one. With Emily Robison's first marriage to ... Emily Robison and Husband Charlie Divorce TransWorldNews (press release)
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Dixie Chicks singer Martie Maguire has a baby girl
Original at Reality TV World
• Sun, Jul 27
• 7 related articles
MA - Jul 27, 2008 Dixie Chicks singer Martie Maguire has confirmed she has given birth to a girl in Austin, Texas. The country music star said she gave birth to Harper Rosie ...
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Review: 'CSNY/Deja Vu'
Original at Newsday
• Fri, Jul 25
NY - When Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines announced she was "ashamed" of George W. Bush at a 2003 concert, it was not exactly a Country Joe moment; ...
Review: On new CD, she's just being Miley
Original at CNN
• Tue, Jul 22
- Cyrus sounds like Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines on the mournful ''These Four Walls.'' She's already got a raspy, middle-aged rocker chick's voice; ...
Nashville Star: Melissa Shines in the Season Premiere
Original at TVGrapevine.com
• Mon, Jun 9
SC - They start with the Dixie Chicks' "Wide Open Spaces." With very strong harmony, even more than the original Chicks. The youngest one doesn't play guitar, ...
John Eskow: Dear Hillary: How Can We Miss You If You Won't Go Away?
Original at Huffington Post
• Fri, May 23
By John Eskow And another, more recent one, by a group of truly brave women, the Dixie Chicks: "Not Ready to Make Nice." How did we stray so incredibly far from first principles? From the minute-by-minute, second-by-second carnage of a war so vile ...
Dixie Chicks's Natalie Maines appears at West Memphis 3 rally
Original at Country Standard Time
• Sat, Dec 22
Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines appeared at a rally Wednesday for the West Memphis 3 - three men found guilty in the 1993 murder of 3 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Ark. About 150 were at the rally on behalf of Damien Echols, ...
Dixie Chick Starts Defense Fund For Convicted Killers
Original at Huffington Post
• Mon, Dec 3
By The Huffington Post News Editors The Dixie Chicks have a new controversy on their hands. In particular, lead singer Natalie Maines has started a defense fund for three Arkansas men that she (and many others) believe were wrongly convicted of killing three children in ...
'Heroes' Adrian Pasdar: Wife Natalie Maines is His Hero - New York Post
Original at New York Post
• Sun, Sep 23
Heroes' Adrian Pasdar: Wife Natalie Maines is His Hero NY - HW: Has everything calmed down with Natalie and the way people feel about the Dixie Chicks at this point? AP: I think so, yeah. ...
Dixie Chicks singer buys $5.6 million home in LA - Reuters Canada
Original at Reuters Canada
• Sun, Sep 2
Dixie Chicks singer buys $5.6 million home in LA Canada - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines has paid $5.6 million for a home in the upscale Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood, the Los Angeles ...
Dixie Chick Natalie Maines enjoys downtime with her sons
Original at Celebrity Baby Blog
• Tue, Aug 21
By Kaisa, CBB Contributor Dixie Chicks member Natalie Maines, 32, is preparing for her role in indie movie Stealing Cars but enjoys spending time with her sons Jackson Slade, 6, and Beckett Finn, 3,. I live at the beach. We play volleyball there every Saturday. ...
Movie Review: Dixie Chicks Shut Up & Sing
Original at Blogcritics
• Sun, Jul 15
By Scott Butki And then it happened. During a concert in London lead singer Natalie Maines said, "Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas." It was one of those short remarks that changed e...
Dixie Chicks - Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines and Emily Robison - in The Weinstein Company's 'Shut Up and Sing'
Original at CTV.com
• Fri, Jul 6
CTV.ca | Dixie Chicks snipe at Bush during B.C. concert Home News etalk Home Bios Dixie Chicks snipe at Bush during B.C. concert It was one of several pokes at Bush by Maines. But Maines said the best sign turned up at the Chicks' Calgary concert: "Nobody likes a nasty Bush.''
Natalie Maines' and Terrence Howard's RED ads with their respective children
Original at Celebrity Baby Blog
• Wed, Jun 6
By Raye, CBB Contributor Natalie Maines of The Dixie Chicks and Oscar nominee Terrence Howard are featured in Gap's latest RED campaign with their children. The ads will appear exclusively in the new Vanity Fair Africa issue that has 20 different covers. Natalie is...
Natalie Maines & sons
Original at Celebrity Baby Scoop
• Wed, Jun 6
By Lisa 5/19/07: Natalie Maines, 32, of the Dixie Chicks does some shopping with her boys, Jackson Slade Pasdar, 6, and Beckett Finn Pasdar, 2 1/2. Maines is married to actor Adrian Pasdar, 42, aka Nathan Petrelli on Heroes. ZFI/Bauer-Griffen.
Music Review: The Dixie Chicks- Taking The Long Way
Original at Blogcritics
• Fri, Jun 1
By Janine Macdonald It was a bold move that backfired. Record sales dropped, death threats were made, and in between convincing fans to burn Dixie Chicks albums, radio stations also stopped playing them. But if that was a move to destroy Dixie Chicks, then it didn’t work. They returned with Taking The Long Way --...
Gareth and Martie Maguire
Original at About.com Marriage
• Tue, Apr 24
Dixie Chicks' fiddle player, Martie Erwin met her husband Gareth Maguire at his brother's wedding. Here's information about the wedding and marriage of Gareth and Martie Maguire.
I hate the Dixie Chicks more than anyone
Original at MoreThings Culpepper Log
• Mon, Apr 23
By Al Barger February 20, 2007 I hate the Dixie Chicks more than anyone This right here is a bunch of crap: I am listed by Google search as the #2 result for "I hate the Dixie Chicks." What?!?! I'm number TWO? I HATE THE DIXIE CHICKS more than anyone else in the world does. Not to boast, but I was the FIRST GUY TO C...
Natalie Maines & Adrian Pasdar
Original at About.com Marriage
• Tue, Apr 17
Dixie Chicks' lead singer, Natalie Maines met her husband Adrian Pasdar at the wedding of another Dixie Chicks, Emily Robison. Here's information about the wedding and marriage of Natalie Maines and Adrian Pasdar.
'I choked up when I read the death threat' - Daily News & Analysis
Original at Daily News & Analysis
• Tue, Mar 27
I choked up when I read the death threat' Daily News & Analysis, India - Radical Chicks: Dixie Chicks, the female music trio from Texas, have been hailed as one of the very dynamic contemporary bands, but got snubbed when they ...
Movie Review: Shut Up & Sing
Original at Blogcritics
• Wed, Feb 21
By Brandon Daviet While this might or not have some truth to it -- I mean the academy did give a Grammy to Jethro Tull for “best Heavy metal album once upon a time -- Shut Up & Sing is the most important movie to come out in 2006 after singer Natalie Maines commented that she was “ashamed the president is from T...
Dixie Chicks reflect on their Grammy sweep
Original at Entertainment Weekly
• Mon, Feb 12
By Chris Willman How do you get record of the year, without airplay?" Maguire asked, possibly not even rhetorically. PopWatch opined that their triumphant "Not Ready to Make Nice" was the first true Internet hit — a song that everyone read about or heard about on the news, but couldn't find on the radio, and...
Jonathan Rintels: Grammys: Yes to Chicks, No to Censorship, Consolidation
Original at Huffington Post
• Mon, Feb 12
By Jonathan Rintels As the Chicks themselves chronicled in their Shut Up and Sing documentary, after lead singer and Texan Natalie Maines publicly said in 2003 that the Chicks were "ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas," Clear Channel and Cumulus, two giant media conglomerates owning a...
Dixie Chicks Enjoy Grammy Revenge
Original at Truthdig
• Mon, Feb 12
The Dixie Chicks won all five awards they were nominated for, including album of the year for “Taking the Long Way,” and record and song of the year for “Not Ready to Make Nice,” their defiant anthem penned [by] songwriter Dan Wilson. It was sweet vindication after the superstars’ lives wer...
A Change In Climate
Original at Democratic National Committee: Blog
• Mon, Feb 12
Last night the Dixie Chicks swept the Grammy awards, winning every category they were nominated for, including Song, Record and Album of the Year. Today's papers are describing it as a sweet vindication after they were shunned by their country music world for speaking out against Bush an...
Getting "Whacked" With A Grammy
Original at Wizbang
• Sun, Feb 11
By Lorie Byrd Bush backers flew into an especially ugly rage against the Dixie Chicks, a three-woman country-western band, after lead singer, Natalie Maines, criticized Bush. During a March 10, 2003, concert in London, Maines, a Texan, remarked, "we're ashamed the President of the United States is...
Texas should be proud of Dixie Chicks
Original at Sydney Morning Herald
• Tue, Oct 10
In more than 30 years of reviewing concerts I have never seen anything like it. When Natalie Maines, the lead singer of the Dixie Chicks, sang Not Ready to Make Nice, her swingeing attack on those who threatened her life after she had the affront to say she was ashamed George Bush was from Texa...
Pete Yorn to tour alone and with Dixie Chicks
Original at LiveDaily.com
• Mon, Oct 2
Singer/songwriter Pete Yorn kicks off a round of headlining dates later this month to back his recently released album, "Nightcrawler," and will follow that run with a stint opening for the Dixie Chicks. Singer/songwriter Pete Yorn kicks off a round of headlining dates later this month...
Opinion: And I Thought The Dixie Chicks Were Unhinged
Original at Wizbang
• Sun, Sep 17
By Lorie Byrd Drudge reports:Roger Waters [Pink Floyd] concert tour hits North America and NYC with flying pigs, urging Dem votes in election, "Impeach Bush" written on rear of pig floating over audience...The pig had graffiti. 'New Yorkers/Don't be led to the slaughter/Vote November 7'
The Dixie Chicks and the Good Soldiers
Original at TIME
• Sun, Sep 17
- Sep 17, 2006 Natalie Maines was just warming up when, on March 10, 2003, 10 days before the Iraq invasion, the lead singer of the Dixie Chicks stepped up to the mic on ...
Chicks adamant about Bush comments
Original at Calgary Sun
• Thu, Sep 14
Three years after Dixie Chicks' lead singer Natalie Maines dissed President George Bush in concert, the country music trio appear to be even stronger in their convictions about free speech. Three years after Dixie Chicks' lead singer Natalie Maines dissed President George Bush in conc...
Dixie Chicks: The Documentary
Original at Hartford Courant
• Tue, Aug 22
By Denis Horgan At the risk of exaggerating, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. The documentary, "Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing," sounds like the sort of thing that preaches to the choir. Fans will likely see it, along with people who agree with the Chicks, but the average movie-goer surely could...
Proof: Chicago's a Chicks magnet
Original at Chicago Sun-Times
• Wed, Aug 16
By BY JIM DEROGATIS Pop Music Critic Branded with a scarlet letter for daring to speak their minds -- "B" for brains instead of "A" for adultery -- the Dixie Chicks have been shunned by many country radio stations and concert markets throughout Red State America.
Dixie Chicks' Denver show postponed
Original at Rocky Mountain News
• Mon, Aug 7
The Dixie Chicks' Sept. 24 concert at the Pepsi Center has been postponed until Nov. 11. Tickets purchased for the September show will be honored on the new date.
Dixie Chicks to Skip Knoxville
Original at WBIR-TV
• Mon, Aug 7
By kgranju Well darn. I love the Dixie Chicks, and even though I wasn't going to be able to make their planned Knoxville show in October, my daughter was. Now they've announced that THE KNOXVILLE SHOW IS CANCELED.