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The Dixie Chicks are a country music group, currently comprising Martie Maguire, Emily Robison and lead singer Natalie Maines. The group formed in 1989 in Dallas, Texas, and was originally composed of four women performing bluegrass and country music, busking and touring the bluegrass festival circuits and small venues for six years, without attracting a major label. After the departure of one bandmate, the replacement of their lead singer, and a slight change in their repertoire, the Dixie Chicks achieved massive country music and pop success, beginning in 1998 with hit songs like "Wide Open Spaces", "Cowboy Take Me Away", and "Long Time Gone". The women also became well-known for their independent spirit and controversial comments on subjects such as war and politics.
During a London concert ten days before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, lead vocalist Maines said, "we don't want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas" (the Dixie Chicks' home state).[1] The statement offended some people, who thought it rude and unpatriotic, and the ensuing controversy cost the group half of their concert audience attendance in the United States and led to accusations of the three women being "un-American", as well as hate mail, a death threat, and the public destruction of their albums in protest.[2]
As of 2009, they have won 13 Grammy Awards, with 5 of them earned in 2007 including the coveted Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Taking The Long Way. As of July 2010, with 30.5 million certified albums,[3] and sales of 26,733,000 albums in the U.S., they have become the top selling female group in the U.S. during the Nielsen SoundScan era.
Wide Open Spaces 1998
Wide Open Spaces is the fourth album and first U.S. Debut album by American country music band the Dixie Chicks, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music). It was their first record with new lead vocalist Natalie Maines, and became their breakthrough commercial success. It received diamond status by the RIAA on February 20, 2003 in the United States, having shipped 12 million units,[1] while spending more than six years in the Australian ARIA music charts Country Top 20. The album has sold 8,655,000 copies in the United States up to November 2008.[2]
At the 41st Grammy Awards, the album was awarded 2 Grammy Awards out of 3 nominations.[3] It was awarded Best Country Album (the first of what would be 4 trophies in this category: they would later win for Fly in 2001, Home in 2003, and Taking the Long Way in 2007.) and for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the song There's Your Trouble. (an award the Chicks would win 5 times: in 2000 for Ready to Run, in 2003 for Long Time Gone, in 2005 for Top of the World and 2007 for Not Ready to Make Nice, a feat only matched by The Judds.) In addition, the Chicks were nominated for Best New Artist.
Tracks:
1. "I Can Love You Better" (Pamela Brown Hayes, Kostas) – 3:53
2. "Wide Open Spaces" (Susan Gibson) – 3:44
3. "Loving Arms" (Tom Jans) – 3:37
4. "There's Your Trouble" (Mark Selby, Tia Sillers) – 3:10
5. "You Were Mine" (Emily Robison, Martie Seidel) – 3:37
6. "Never Say Die" (George Ducas, Radney Foster) – 3:56
7. "Tonight the Heartache's on Me" (Mary Francis, Johnny MacRae, Bob Morrison) – 3:25
8. "Let 'Er Rip" (Billy Crain, Sandy Ramos) – 2:49
9. "Once You've Loved Somebody" (Thom McHugh, Bruce Miller) – 3:28
10. "I'll Take Care of You" (J. D. Souther) – 3:40
11. "Am I the Only One (Who's Ever Felt This Way?)" (Maria McKee) – 3:25
12. "Give It Up or Let Me Go" (Bonnie Raitt) – 4:55
Fly 1999
Fly is the fifth album and second U.S. album by American country band Dixie Chicks, released in 1999 (see 1999 in music). The album was very successful for the group receiving diamond status by the RIAA on June 25, 2002 in the USA, having shifted 10 million units.[1] The album debuted and peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200.
The tracks "Ready to Run", "Cowboy Take Me Away", "Without You", "Goodbye Earl", "Cold Day in July", "Heartbreak Town", "Some Days You Gotta Dance" and "If I Fall You're Going Down with Me" were all released as singles; "Sin Wagon" also charted without officially being released. "Some Days You Gotta Dance" was previously recorded by The Ranch, a short-lived country trio founded by Keith Urban in the late 1990s. Urban plays guitar on the Dixie Chicks' rendition.
The album earned 4 Grammy nominations in 2000, and the group won 2: Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for Ready to Run and Best Country Album. It was also nominated for Album of the Year and the writers of Ready to Run, Marcus Hummon and Martie Seidel were nominated for Best Country Song.
The Song Sin Wagon was released as a downloadable song in the Rock Band series
Tracks:
1. "Ready to Run" (Marcus Hummon, Martie Seidel) — 3:52
2. "If I Fall You're Going Down with Me" (Matraca Berg, Annie Roboff) — 3:05
3. "Cowboy Take Me Away" (Seidel, Hummon) — 4:51
4. "Cold Day in July" (Richard Leigh) — 5:12
5. "Goodbye Earl" (Dennis Linde) — 4:19
6. "Hello Mr. Heartache" (Mike Henderson) — 3:49
7. "Don't Waste Your Heart" (Emily Erwin, Natalie Maines) — 2:49
8. "Sin Wagon" (Maines, Erwin, Stephony Smith) — 3:41
9. "Without You" (Maines, Eric Silver) — 3:32
10. "Some Days You Gotta Dance" (Troy Johnson, Marshall Morgan) — 2:30
11. "Hole in My Head" (Jim Lauderdale, Buddy Miller) — 3:22
12. "Heartbreak Town" (Darrell Scott) — 3:53
13. "Ain't No Thang but a Chickin' Wang"- 0:06 (a sixsecond piece of silence, so no song is on track 13.)
14. "Let Him Fly" (Patty Griffin) — 3:07
Home 2002
Home is the sixth and third U.S. studio album by American country band Dixie Chicks, released in 2002. It is notable for its acoustic bluegrass sound, which stands in contrast with their previous two country pop albums.
The group was promoting the album when lead singer Natalie Maines made controversial comments about U.S. President George W. Bush. The album's third single, "Travelin' Soldier", was #1 on the Billboard Country Chart the week that Maines' comments hit the press.[1] The following week, as many stations started a still-standing boycott of the Chicks' music, the song collapsed. None of their following singles gained traction with country radio.
Despite these events, the album was certified 6× Multi-platinum status by the RIAA and has sold 5,979,000 copies in the United States up to November 2008.[2] The album also featured a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide", which was their biggest pop crossover hit until 2007, when "Not Ready to Make Nice" peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The album was also successful in Australia, in its 175th week in the country charts it was certified Triple Platinum for shipments of 210,000 copies.[3]
The album was nominated at the 45th Grammy Awards for 6 awards, including their second attempt for Album of the Year. The group went home with 4 in 2003, including Best Country Album, Best Recording Package, Best Country Instrumental Performance for "Lil' Jack Slade", and Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "Long Time Gone". Additionally, they were nominated for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical and Darrell Scott was nominated for Best Country Song for Long Time Gone. Two years later, they were nominated and won Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, this time for "Top of the World".
Tracks:
1. "Long Time Gone" (Darrell Scott) – 4:10
2. "Landslide" (Stevie Nicks) – 3:50
3. "Travelin' Soldier" (Bruce Robison) – 5:43
4. "Truth No. 2" (Patty Griffin) – 4:28
5. "White Trash Wedding" (Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison) – 2:21
6. "A Home" (Maia Sharp, Randy Sharp) – 4:56
7. "More Love" (Gary Nicholson, Tim O'Brien) – 5:07
8. "I Believe in Love" (Maguire, Maines, Marty Stuart) – 4:14
9. "Tortured, Tangled Hearts" (Maguire, Maines, Stuart) – 3:40
10. "Lil' Jack Slade" (Terri Hendrix, Maguire, Lloyd Maines, E. Robison) – 2:23
11. "Godspeed (Sweet Dreams)" (Radney Foster) – 4:42
12. "Top of the World" (Patty Griffin) – 6:01
Taking the Long Way 2006
Taking the Long Way is the seventh and forth U.S. studio album by the American Country female band Dixie Chicks. It was released on May 23, 2006 in the U.S. and on June 12, 2006 worldwide. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. It sold over 2 million copies in the U.S., being certified 2x platinum by the RIAA as of July 11, 2007. It won 5 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year in February 2007.
The first song released from the album was the charity single "I Hope" on September 2005. The song received its debut performance on the Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast telethon on September 9, 2005 and was later made available as a digital download single with proceeds to benefit the Hurricane Katrina relief.
The first physical single from the album, "Not Ready to Make Nice", was released in March 2006. On May 18, 2006, the whole album was leaked onto various file sharing mediums.
Taking the Long Way was the first studio album the band released since the controversy that erupted over them in 2003 following Natalie Maines' remarks critical of United States President George W. Bush. The controversy and the Chicks' reaction to it is the major theme at the first tracks of the album.
The first track is "The Long Way Around" which is a manifesto to non-conformity, presented with allusions to The Byrds' "Wasn't Born to Follow" as well as the Chicks' own "Long Time Gone" and "Top of the World". The second track is "Easy Silence", a testimonial to the protagonist's husband, who affords her an island of quiet companionship and love in the midst of turmoil. The third track, and first single, "Not Ready to Make Nice", offers an angry statement of purpose and resolve. The fourth track "Everybody Knows" is a return to the classic Chicks sound, but enmeshed in an aura of vulnerabilities and ambivalences.
Track 6 "Lullabye" was featured prominently in the Medium Episode "Twice Upon a Time," Season 2 Episode 22, which first aired on May 22, 2006, the night before the album release date.
Track 9 "Favorite Year" was written with the collaboration of Sheryl Crow, while track ten "Voice Inside My Head" was written with the collaboration of Linda Perry.
Closing track "I Hope", is a song written with Keb' Mo' for the victims of Hurricane Katrina and it was first performed on the Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast telethon in 2005. The song features a guitar solo from John Mayer.
The song "Lubbock or Leave It" roused the answer song "Trouble in the Henhouse" from fellow Lubbockite Billy Briggs.
Selections from the album were prominently featured in the Chicks' subsequent Accidents & Accusations Tour, which included an unprecedented number of Canadian dates. A lot of the album tracks are featured in the Dixie Chicks rockumentary, Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing, alongside 3 non-album cuts; "The Neighbor", "Baby Love" and "Whatever It Takes".
The Neighbor was later released as a stand-alone single single, in support of the rockumentary Shut up and Sing.
On May 31, 2006, the album took three number one spots on the charts of Billboard magazine. It was number one on the Hot Country Albums, Top Digital Albums, and on the Billboard 200 chart, going Gold in its first week with 526,000 units sold.[1] The second week, the album stayed in the top spot while taking a 48% decline, selling 271,000 units and bringing the album sales total to 797,000 units.[2] In its third and fourth weeks, the album dropped to number two on the chart. During weeks five, six, and seven, the album remained as one of the top five albums in the country. During its eighth week, due to several high-profile new releases, the album was pushed out of the top ten to number eleven. However, on week nine, the album bounced back into the top ten. The album has sold 2,290,489 copies in the US as of July 11, 2007.
In Canada, the album was a huge success, staying on the top of the album charts for 4 weeks and 18 weeks on the country album charts. It has sold 292,639 copies there, making it 2x platinum.[3] At the year end charts, Taking The Long Way was the second best selling album of the year in Canada.
The album has also done well in Australia becoming their highest charting album peaking at #2 and has since gone double platinum (140,000), the album has also spent thirty non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the Australian Country Chart and is yet to peak lower than the top 10 more than 40 weeks after its release. Taking the Long Way came in at #20 on the Australian End Of Year Album Charts for 2006. It also finished at #1 on the Australian End Of Year Country Charts for 2006, the lead single "Not Ready To Make Nice", finished at #96 on the End Of Year Single Charts.
As of January 2007, Taking the Long Way is certified 2x platinum by the RIAA in the U.S. Many people say that the drop in album sales is due to radio airplay, or lack thereof, which is partly correct. However, a decline in album sales across the board makes up for much of the difference.
Right after the Dixie Chicks won five Grammy Awards and performed "Not Ready to Make Nice" at the 49th ceremony, the album and the single reached the #1 spot on the U.S. iTunes Music Store. On February 21, it was announced by Billboard that the album sales increased 714% (rocketing from position #72 to #8) with sales of 103,000 copies, compared with only 12,700 copies sold on the week before.[4] On the Canadian charts, the post-Grammy Awards week saw the album rocket up from position #27 to #5, with 9,000 copies sold.[5]
Taking The Long Way was very successful in Europe, which has never been an easy market for country music, reaching the top position in Sweden and entering in the top ten in Germany(#5), Austria (#7), Switzerland (#6), Ireland (#7), Norway (#6) and in the UK (#7), becoming their most successful album in Europe to date.
The website Metacritic gave the album a score of 72 out of 100 based on 18 reviews, signifying generally favorable reviews. The users gave the album a score of 8.1 out of 10 based on 121 votes.[6] According to the website, it is behind Home as the second most well-rated album of the band by the critics (the users gave Home a poor 5.8 score).[7]
On December 11, Taking the Long Way appeared at #19 on the Rolling Stone list of the top 50 albums of the year: "The Dixie Chicks respond to their rough past few years with brass balls: This disc shows they didn't regret speaking out against the Iraq War, and Natalie Maines sounds almost punk at times. There is also a whole lot of craft -- (Taking the) Long Way is a widescreen pop record with gorgeous country rock, killer power ballads and fierce honky-tonk."[8] Time elected Taking the Long Way the fifth best album released in 2006 according to the magazine's music critics: "The incident", as they call it, took a commercial toll, but musically the Chicks have never been stronger. The instrumentation on their fourth album keeps a toe in country, yet the songs are the best kind of pop—smart, instantly memorable and fussed over until they sound effortless. "Not Ready to Make Nice" broadcasts their grievances, but "Bitter End" and "So Hard" (a sing-along about infertility) prove that complicated songwriting for the masses still flourishes."[9]
USA Today elected Taking the Long Way the best album of the year according to the publication's music experts, writing, "It was a calculated risk that paid off. Having alienated much of their country constituency with an ill-timed jibe at President Bush, the Chicks declined to beg for forgiveness, defiantly forging ahead with a forthright description of their situation and attitude, "Not Ready to Make Nice", and releasing it as the album's lead-off single. That alienated even more of the country base, but throngs of new fans — and the majority of USA Today's critics — were enthralled by the stance and, more important, the rich, textured, genre-transcendent music the trio and producer Rick Rubin cooked up." Billboard magazine chose Taking the Long Way as one of 2006's fifteen best albums writing, "Once the darlings of country, the Chicks lost many fans — and the support of country radio — after a 2003 incident in which Natalie Maines made a relatively innocuous comment about President Bush from a London stage. The group has finally re-emerged stronger, more defiant and more creatively ambitious than ever. The first-time pairing with Rubin has resulted in a surprisingly cohesive mix of country and rock tunes, including co-writes with Sheryl Crow and Neil Finn. While many former fans remain critical of the group for its outspoken political views — an apparent no-no in country music — tracks like "The Long Way Around", "Everybody Knows", "I Hope" (highlighted by a John Mayer guitar solo) and the chillingly sad "Voice Inside My Head" are sure to earn the group at least some of its fans back."
On December 6, 2005, the first single released from the album, "I Hope", was nominated for the 48th Grammy Awards in two categories (Best Country Song and Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal). On February 8, 2006, it lost both awards to Bobby Boyd, Jeff Hanna, Marcus Hummon and Alison Krauss and Union Station, respectively.
On December 7, 2006, Taking the Long Way was nominated for the 49th Grammy Awards in two categories (Album of the Year, Best Country Album), and the single "Not Ready to Make Nice" was nominated in three categories (Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal). On February 11, 2007, the band won the awards in all of the five categories. Producer Rick Rubin was awarded Producer of the Year for his work with this and other albums.
On April 1, 2007, the album won the Juno Award for International Album of the Year.
Tracks:
1. "The Long Way Around" – 4:33
2. "Easy Silence" – 4:02
3. "Not Ready to Make Nice" – 3:58
4. "Everybody Knows" (Gary Louris, Maguire, Maines, Robison) – 4:18
5. "Bitter End" (Louris, Maguire, Maines, Robison) – 4:38
6. "Lullaby" – 5:51
7. "Lubbock or Leave It" (Mike Campbell, Maguire, Maines, Robison) – 3:54
8. "Silent House" (Neil Finn, Maguire, Maines, Robison) – 5:23
9. "Favorite Year" (Sheryl Crow, Maguire, Maines) – 4:29
10. "Voice Inside My Head" (Maguire, Maines, Linda Perry, Robison, Wilson) – 5:52
11. "I Like It" (Louris, Maguire, Maines, Robison) – 4:34
12. "Baby Hold On" (Louris, Maguire, Maines, Robison, Pete Yorn) – 5:04
13. "So Hard" – 4:27
14. "I Hope" (Maguire, Maines, Kevin Moore, Robison) – 5:25
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-Kitlope
