EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- How best to foment a Dixie Chicks reappraisal in the country music world? Maybe they can tape a Funny or Die sketch with Toby Keith, their old sparring partner in cultural politics. Maybe Taylor Swift can start covering ''Landslide'' or ''Not Ready to Make Nice'' in concert. Maybe, simply, they can make great country songs,...
FOR a brand-new band, Court Yard Hounds had a cushy setup: the professional-grade studio at Martie Maguire's home on the outskirts of Austin. The Hounds -- Ms. Maguire and her sister, Emily Robison -- recorded nearly all of their self-titled new album there, in a bright, custom-built room with nonparallel walls (to reduce echoes) decorated with...
The country music trio the Dixie Chicks and their lead singer, Natalie Maines, have been sued for defamation by the stepfather of a boy who was killed in a 1993 attack, The Associated Press reported. Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of Steve Branch, one of three 8-year-old boys who were brutally killed in West Memphis, Ark., in May 1993, filed the...
Dixie Chicks er en amerikansk musikgruppe, der spiller country og som udelukkende har kvindelige medlemmer. På nuværende tidspunkt består gruppen af: Emily Robison, Martie Maguire, og Natalie Maines.
Dixie Chicks blev dannet i 1989 i Dallas, Texas. De fik kommerciel succes i slutningen af 1990'erne, med sange som "Wide Open Spaces", "Cowboy Take Me Away", og "Long Time Gone". Da Natalie Maines offentligt kritiserede USA's præsident George W. Bush lige før invasionen af Irak mistede gruppen halvdelen af sit koncertpublikum i USA.