Dixie Chicks

With 104 shows played between 1997 and 1999, Lilith Fair's bills became renown for a lineup featuring only female solo performers and female-led bands, including McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Dixie Chicks, Christina Aguilera, Sinead O'Connor, Eykah Badu, Liz Phair and Fiona Apple, among...

Even if you're the quiet Dixie Chick - as Emily Robison has been called - there's no getting away from the fact that there are few places you can go without causing a stir.

I approach music like a director doing a period piece," Mayer said. "Where 'Continuum' was R&B and Soul, 'Battle Studies' was written with the timelessness of Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac and Neil Young in mind. The melodies and message are concise and from-the-gut with the efficiency of...

25--During the course of his long career, Merle Haggard has racked up 38 No. 1 country hits, sung with George, Dolly and Willie, toured with Bob , entered the Country Music Hall of Fame, recorded with Toby Keith and publicly defended the Dixie Chicks.

We beg to differ, jerkwad... a Sadly, it's official: Toby Keith, that big redneck doofus who is always threatening to put his boots up somebody's ass or feuding with the Dixie Chicks, has been declared by Nashville Songwriters Association International the top songwriter/artist OF THE DE...

May 14 2009 12:00AM http://sayanythingblog.com/index.php You all remember the Dixie Chicks, right? Marginally talented country pop band that saw its career implode when loud-mouthed lead singer Natalie Maines decided to do a little on-stage Bush bashing? The most annoying thing abo...

 NY Remember the Dixie Chicks? At a concert in London, lead singer Natalie Maines mentioned she was ashamed that George Bush came from her home state of Texas. For that comment, the Dixie Chicks were banned from most of the public airwaves, radio stations ...

 DC Keith has been in a number of public feuds over the years, including spats with Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines and actor Ethan Hawke. Supermodel Tyra Banks says she feared for her safety when she learned that her accused stalker had entered the ...

 WI Another moment that stirred the crowd was Niccole Galvan's solo on “Not Ready to Make Nice” by the Dixie Chicks. Galvan's powerful voice and emotion matches the intensity of the original song. As a freshman, she has one of the best voices in the group ...

 TN - Alison Bonaguro, Alison Bonaguro One of the first one I did was “Cowboy Take Me Away” by the Dixie Chicks. Sometimes, if the song is really fast, I use something called the Amazing Slow Downer on my computer. It slows down the song so you can hear all the notes really clearly. ...

 AR Texas singer-songwriter Susan Gibson, who wrote one of the Dixie Chicks' biggest hits, "Wide Open Spaces," is bringing her act to Arkansas. She will perform Wednesday at Studio Joe, 600 Autumn Road, Little Rock. On Friday and Saturday, she will be part ...

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I’ve been a huge fan of the Dixie Chicks since they exploded onto the scene with their hit 1998 album, “Wide Open Spaces.” They’ve put on some of the best, most entertaining concerts I’ve ever seen. And I’ve stuck with them through their highs (which include their albums “Fly” and “Home”) and...

Natalie Maines, the outspoken lead singer of the Dixie Chicks, who kicked off a firestorm of country-versy a few years ago by suggesting that George W. Bush might not have been the best president this country ever had (imagine someone not saying that now), has again made extra-musical new...

By Dan Gibson The section "Public statements and controversy" in the Wikipedia article about Natalie Maines just got a little bit longer, thanks to Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of one the children killed in the 1993 West Memphis Three incident, suing Maines for defamation. Hobbs took exception to the...

In this Dec. 19, 2007 file photo Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines attends a rally in support of three Arkansas prison inmates in Little Rock, Ark. Maines is the target of a defamation lawsuit by the stepfather of one of three 8-year-old boys slain in West Memphis. Maines spoke out for th...

By Jim Malec The Dixie Chicks are one the best selling groups in country music history, having sold more than 8,000,000 copies of their first four studio albums. Consisting of lead singer Maines and sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison, the Dixie Chicks have kept a low profile since 2006’s Accide...

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It's a libel suit, in Pulaski County, by a man who says the Chicks libeled him with statements about the West Memphis Three case. The suit, by the stepfather of one of the three children killed in the slayings, says he was falsely accused of being responsible for the deaths. The Chicks have be...

By bike or it didn't happen Maines says Jackson arrived with his longtime friend, Veronique Peck, the widow of iconic actor Gregory Peck. He also brought his three children, the eldest of whom Maines called one of "the most well-adjusted" and "self-assured" children she's ever met. But when Stern asked her if she ac...

By MelissaMc Those grins have a lot to do with how Sugarland have grown into one of the country’s most successful and beloved acts. Both their 2004 debut, Twice the Speed of Life, and its 2006 follow-up Enjoy the Ride, have gone double platinum. They've scored eight country top 10 hits, and even noncountr...

By Johanna Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes til shiny and golden brown. Great with cream cheese, promite, for breakfast, with soup and I am told they can be frozen if not needed within a few days. On the stereo: Wide Open Spaces: Dixie Chicks.

Financially, that’s not such a bad thing (he penned the the Dixie Chicks’ hit song “Not Ready to Make Nice”), but creatively there’s not much going on that surpasses his past efforts. His 2007 release Free Life received a lot of blah ...

Dear future son of mine: If you resent the loss of your foreskin, blame the Dixie Chicks!) Q: Where is the best place to sit during a Dixie Chicks concert? Q: Do you have a favorite Dixie Chick? Q: Would you entertain the idea of blogging for the Chicks again?

By default@goarticles.com (Clyde Dennis) Wide Open Spaces is the latest release from Dixie Chicks, and I can only think of one word to describe this CD... AWESOME! Wide Open Spaces opens with an outstanding track, I Can Love You Better, tha...

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...

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...

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.

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 --...

By Janine Macdonald A lot has changed since the Dixie Chicks last studio album, Home, in 2002. In between having babies, they found themselves in the face of controversy when they announced during their Home tour, they were ashamed of their President.It was a bold move that backfired. Record sales dropped, dea...

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...

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.

Taking The Long Way isn't the only DCX album receiving kudos this year. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame came up with a list of the "Definitive 200" albums of the rock era. Wide Open Spaces, Home, and Fly all show up on the list. (Side note: how can Purple Rain be only #16 when it's the best album of al...

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...

By TV and Film Guy In London in 2003, on the first night of their “Top of the World” tour, Natalie Maines, the lead singer of The Dixie Chicks, unhappy about the U.S.’s plans for war in Iraq stated that she was ashamed the President of the United States was from Texas.  Because the President’s approval rating was...

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...

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...

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...

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...

LOS ANGELES — Natalie Maines to the contemporary country power structure: "Heh heh." Or "Hah hah," or something like that. Grammy voters to the contemporary country power structure, r.e. The Dixie Chicks: "Please, can we keep them?" It's not that the Grammy crowd is fed up with commercial co...

 NM - Robison acknowledges that maybe the anti-Bush remark was the best thing that ever could have happened to the Dixie Chicks, an incredibly insightful point. ...

which is really a Dixie Chicks concert with slightly ... patter, lead singer Natalie Maines prefaces an ... More typically, Martie Maguire explains that she wrote ... Review: Dixie Chicks don‘t `Shut Up‘ Leading The Charge Review: Film sings Dixie Chicks‘ praises Herald News Daily

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...

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...

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'

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...

By Lorie Byrd The Dixie Chicks have had to cancel or push back many of their concert dates, ... Think they'd make the cover of Rolling Stone or Time? ... My girlfriend asked (read: ordered) me to a Dixie Chicks concert a couple years ago. ...

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.

FUCK YOU HILLBILLES! Dixie Chicks #1 MOVIES: Rob Zombie to remake/reimagine HALLOWEEN… TV:http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif Big Love ended for the year… STUPID SHITHEAD GIRL: K Fed is the one selling stuff to the tabloids. Remembrance of Who I Am May 22, 2006

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