Group history

A original members of a Dixie Chicks were the sisters Martie Erwin and Emily Erwin, Laura Lynch and Robin Lynn Macy. Martie & Emily use at times married & their list come nowadays Martie Maguire & Emily Robison.

Robwithin Lynn Macy left in late 1992, preferring a "purer" bluegrass sound. She joined Sara Hickman and Patty Lege to form the class action Domestic Science Club, which issued two albums prior to disbanding. Macy late founded the class action known as Big Twang, which cut one Video prior to its band members went their separate ways.

Laura Lynch was replaced within 1995 by Natalie Maines, daughter of producer & steel guitar player Lloyd Maines. the recently lineup experienced a massive hit by owning their album Wide Open Spaces on Sony's Monument label. This was followed by a second megahit Video, Fly. When of early 2005 these albums own sold assibilate 12 million & 10 million copies severally.

Around September 2001 a Dixie Chicks debuted their song "I Believe in Love" on the America: A Tribute to Heroes telethon following a September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

the class action was included inside a dispute by owning their record label for deuce years, & their next album Home was an independent production, produced by Lloyd Maines & freed around 2002 fallowing a Chicks & Sony reconciled their differences. Despite with the "non-commercial" sound – unlike them former records, House lacks drums and is dominated by super-higher-tempo bluegrass & pensive ballads – it was besides the major profits & has sold ended 6 million copies (which may keep around been further however for the political argument to came). Despite (or even mayhap because of) a blackball publicity, At home dominated a 2003 Grammy Awards, winning four of the two, including Best Country Album. Tickets for the associated Top of the Globe tour typically sold out inside hours.

Inside September 2005 a Dixie Chicks debuted their song "I Hope" on the Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast telethon following Hurricane Katrina, and later on processed it available as a digital download only by using take to profit hurricane relief.

The sound

A todays line-higher consists of class action leader Martie (fiddle, mandolin, and vocals), Emily (guitar, dobro, banjo, & vocals), & Natalie (lead vocals and cranelike, guitar). When Martie & Emily come accomplished musicians, Natalie has the heavy & distinctive voice. A class action's mixture of bluegrass and mainstream country music appeals to a wide spectrum of record purchaser. A class action's visual image ranges from either jolly to jokey to fiery, which farther enhances their general appeal.

This romanticist, adventuresome feel of independence is the major theme of the Maines-era Chicks; these are strongly evident as well inside "Cowboy Take Me Away", an additional of their signature songs, then afterwards in their handle of Stevie Nicks' "Landslide". However a Chicks can besides deliver joyful retaliation epic poem like "Goodbye Earl" (which led to their number 1 modest brush by using argument whilst occasionally radio stations shied out of swimming it) or even raucous, bawdy statistics like "Sin Wagon" (the concert staple rave-higher). Within counterpoint, the key track from either Front yard was the giving of Patty Griffin's "Top of the World" (for which a subsequent tour was known as), which features the startingly unusual point of see & tries to portray an all but intolerable feel of rue.

Political controversy

In March 10, 2003, around the period of the dog-as much as a invasiin of Iraq (which would require place on March 20), Natalie Maines declared during a concert in London that the band was "ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas." (Maines occurs as indigen of Lubbock, Texas.) This remark sparked intense criticism from either numerous Americans, in tierce different evidence: that Maines shouldn't exist as criticizing a united states's head of state patch on foreign territory; that Maines shouldn't become criticizing a united states's commander-around-chief when a united states was on the verge of war; & that Maines shouldn't exist as making political statements that would offend a Dixie Chicks' culturally conservative audience base.

As punishment the uproar & a run of a boycott of their music, the singer attempted to clarify matters in March 12 with the statement "I feel the President is ignoring the opinions of many in the U.S. and alienating the rest of the world."

This statement failed to quiet her critics, & in March 14 she issued an apology stating "As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush because my remark was disrespectful. I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect. We are currently in Europe and witnessing a huge anti-American sentiment as a result of the perceived rush to war. While war may remain a viable option, as a mother, I just want to see every possible alternative exhausted before children and American soldiers' lives are lost. I love my country. I am a proud American."

Occasionally fans remained angry & pressed in using the boycott of Dixie Chick music & stations that played their music, when more fans were disappointed that she apologized. Around of these display of anti-Dixie-Chick publicity, previous Dixie Chick fans were encouraged to bring their Dixie Chicks Videos therefore that it can be crushed by the bulldozer. A extent of the backlash resulted in the creative person existence caring just about their private safety & that of their families. Bruce Springsteen and Madonna were among those world health organization come call at trend lines of the perfect of the women to express their opinion. Does'nt of these to back down from either contention, possibly Madonna herself was pressured to cancel a release of her anti-war streaming video "American Life" which featured the Bush parody.

In April 24, the Dixie Chicks launched the publicity campaign to teach you their position. When you took the prime-period locate by owning TV personality Diane Sawyer, Maines said she remained proud of her original statement. A band too appeared naked (using buck private area strategically covered) on the May 2, 2003 cover of Entertainment Weekly magazine with motto like "Traitors," "Saddam's Angels," "Dixie Sluts," "Proud Americans," "Hero," "Free Speech," & "Brave" printed in their bodies. Several critics known as a moves publicity stunts, since they were launched on the eve of the U.S. concert tour.

the original disputation was launched whilst a Guardian review of the group's London concert was picked higher by U.S. media. (For the Tutelar's sum-up of the tilt, understand [http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,943170,00.html].)

President Bush responded to the controversy surrounding the Dixie Chicks in an interview with Tom Brokaw on April 24: At the number one concert of their united states-countrywide tour a Dixie Chicks received a super caring reception. A concert was held within Greenville, South Carolina on May 1 and was attended by a sell-out crowd of 15,000. A women experienced came prepared to face to opposition & Natalie Maines invited those world health organization experienced came to boo to launder sol however a crowd erupted around cheers.

Nonetheless, a band remained controversial. In May 6th, the Colorado radio statiin suspended deuce of its disc jockeys for swimming music per Dixie Chicks around violation of a ban on their music. In May 22 at the Academy of Country Music (ACM) awards ceremony in Las Vegas there were boos while a class action's nomination for entertainer of the month awards was announced. Even so, a broadcast's hikers, Vince Gill, reminded the audience that everyone is entitled to freedom of speech. A Academy processed a award to Toby Keith, an outspoken critic of the group.

witharound the fcompletely of 2003 the Dixie Chicks starred in a broadcast TV commercial message for Lipton Ice Tea which mass produced a tongue-in-facetious information to the corporate blacklisting & the grassroots backlash: in the tea spot, the Chicks come astir to give a bowl concert while the electricity suddenly goes out - however it handle to electrify the arena all by themselves, belting out a arousal "a capella" version of "Cowboy Take Me Away" to the raving cheers of the fans.

Around the September 2003 locate, Maguire told Der Spiegel magazine: "We don't feel a part of the country scene any longer, it can't be our home any more." She noted a want of trend lines from either united states stars, & existence shunned at the 2003 ACM awards. "Instead, we won three Grammys against much stronger competition. So we now consider ourselves part of the big rock 'n' roll family." All the same, within an open letter to fans on the Chicks' web site, Maines said that Maguire got been misquoted.

Inside October 2004, a Dixie Chicks joined the "Vote for Change" tour, swimming the series of concerts inside Our contries swing states. These concerts were organized by MoveOn.org with the general goal of mobilizing people to vote for John Kerry and against George W. Bush in that year's Presidential campaign. A Dixie Chicks' appearances were joint performances by owning James Taylor. This effort was abortive within having Kerry elected, & when you took a concerts Maines' stage remarks revealed a certain total of nervousness on top what the Dixie Chicks' first career path would exist as.

Conspiracy theories
From either a beginning of the disputation, conspiracy theorists have discussed who exactly was responsible launching a boycott of Dixie Chicks' music, and a extent to which their fans supported a boycott.

A few critics of the boycott, like Michael Moore, claimed that a boycott was non the product of big many fans angry at their comments however an unionised plot by Bush-supporting radio chain executives & the Republican Party leadership. Under this theory, a ban in swimming their music by country and western stations owned by Clear Channel Communications was not just initiated by local statiaround managers or even even DJs on their have or around response to a bit of angry hearer, however was instead coordinated by business leader world health organization wanted to curry favour among a Bush administration & Republicans in Congress for policies like relaxation of media ownership system.

It likewise claimed that humans working for a Gop engaged around the deceptive phone campaign to convince united states radio stations to dislodge the Dixie Chicks music from either their play list. At long last, it say, this led to the traitorously perception that several Dixie Chicks fans were strongly opposed to Natalie Maines' anti-Bush remarks. It pointed to a fact that a elastic album sales at the period were higher, & their concerts were largely selling dead set trend lines their claims. A boycott's critics indicate that there was the studied attempt to produce a treacherously impression that several fans got turned against the Dixie Chicks sequentially to try & send a message to more celebrities that anti-Bush administration remarks can injured your systems career.

Clear Channel Communications & a Republican National Committee (RNC) have denied these accusations, & there are no direct grounds to believe emerged to trend lines these claims. Similar theories on Clear Channel management's control (or even deficiency thereof) of their single stations too arose when a September 11, 2001 attacks; view a List of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel following the September 11, 2001 attacks for additional details.

Discography
Albums
Thank Heavens for Dale Evans (1990) Home on the Radar Range (45rpm single) (1991) ''Little Ol' Cowgirl (1992) Shouldn't a Told You That (without Robin Lynn Macy) (1993) Wide Open Spaces (with Natalie Maines replacing Laura Lynch) (1998) (US Sales: 12 million; United states chart #1, Pop chart #4) Fly (1999) (US Sales: 10 million; United states chart #1, Pop chart #1) Home (2002) (US sales: 6 million; United states chart #1, Pop chart #1) An Evening with the Dixie Chicks (live concert DVD) (2002) Top of the World Tour (live concert album (Video & DVD)) (2003) (CD U.s.a. sales: ??; United states chart #3, Pop chart #27)

Singles

|- |Release|| || Greatest Hoarding || Positions |- |Date||Song||US Country Chart||US Pop Chart |- |from Wide Open Spaces'' |- |10/27/97||"I Can Love You Better"||#7||#77 |- |4/14/98||"There's Your Trouble"||#1 (Ii weeks)||#36 |- |7/28/98||"Wide Open Spaces"||#1 (Quatern weeks)||#41 |- |1/18/99||"You Were Mine"||#1 (Deuce weeks)||#34 |- |5/07/99||"Tonight The Heartache's On Me"||#6||#46 |- |??/??/??||"Let 'er Rip"||#64||- |- |from Fly || || || |- |7/16/99||"Ready To Run"||#2||#39 |- |11/08/99||"Cowboy Take Me Away"||#1 (Two weeks)||#27 |- |2/29/00||"Goodbye Earl"||#13 [Gold]||#19 |- |5/07/00||"Cold Day in July"||#10||#65 |- |??/??/??||"Sin Wagon"||#52||- |- |8/09/00||"Without You"||#I (1 week)||- |- |2/12/01||"If I Fall You're Going With Me"||#3||#38 |- |6/25/01||"Heartbreak Town"||#23||- |- |9/21/01||"Some Days You Gotta Dance"||#7||#55 |- |from Residence || || || |- |5/23/02||"Long Time Gone"||#2||#7 |- |8/20/02||"Landslide"||#2||#7 |- |11/25/02||"Travelin' Soldier"||#Ace (1 week)||#25 |- |5/21/03||"Godspeed (Sweet Dreams)"||#44||- |- |??/??/??||"White Trash Wedding"||#56||- |- |??/??/??||"Tortured Tangled Hearts"||#58||- |- |from Web digital download || || || |- |09/27/2005||"I Hope"||#60||- |}

Awards

2004 Awards
2004 Patrick Lippert award from MTV's Rock the Vote, for "protecting freedom of expression" [http://www.softcom.net/webnews/wed/cw/Uus-rockthevote.RwyB_EJN.html]

2003 Awards
2003 [http://www.finemanpr.com/blunders.html FINEMAN PR]'s "Top 10 PR Blunders List" [http://www.azreporter.com/news/features/2003/prblunders.html] VH1's "Big Quote of 2003" [http://www.vh1.com/shows/events/big_in/2003/show_cat.jhtml] 2003 Grammy Award: Best Country Album- Home 2003 Grammy Award: Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal - "Long Time Gone" 2003 Grammy Award: Best Country Instrumental Performance-"Lil' Jack Slade" 2003 Grammy Award: Best Recording Package- Home

2002 Awards
2002 Billboard Music Award: "Country Duo/Group of the Year" 2002 Country Music Association (CMA) Award: "Vocal Group of the Year" 2002 CMT Flameworthy Award: "Video Visionary Award" 2002 American Music Award: "Favorite Country Band, Duo or Group" 2002 American Music Award: "Favorite Country Album" for Home 2002 People's Choice Award: "Favorite Musical Group or Band"

2001 Awards
2001 TNN/CMT: "Favorite Group/Duo" 2001 American Music Award: "Favorite Band/Duo/Group" 2001 Academy of Country Music (ACM): "Entertainer of the Year" 2001 ACM: "Vocal Group of the Year" 2001 ACM: "Video of the Year" - Goodbye Earl

2000 Awards
2000 Country Music Association (CMA): "Album of the Year" - FLY 2000 CMA: "Entertainer of the Year"