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Fans' concert reviews, kohl center in madison, us on sat, 26 aug 2023.

A VERY talented group of women - it was a great show! Old favorites mixed with the newer stuff! They may have offended some old white guys, who got up and left, with songs about equality and rights, but that’s exactly what I love about the Chicks! I’m glad we made the last minute decision to buy tickets. Well worth every penny! EXTRA Bonus was seeing Ben Harper too!

Utilita Arena Birmingham in Birmingham, UK on Fri, 29 Apr 2016

Disappointed to start with. Extremely loud, main mike and drums were overpowering. First few tracks couldn't make out the music at all. Heard tracks better when the band all sat down. 50-50. Had no idea who the warm act were, they werent't introduced.

Well - what can I say...... Never in my life has the attendance at a concert had me in tears. I mean - they were just free-flowing down my cheeks - uncontrollably. And hey - I'm not even embarrassed wink emoticon. I would liken it to the kind of experience people have when they believe they have had some kind of awestruck angelic / spiritual awakening - you know, a vision that's just stopped your heart beating and you're moving towards the light..... To my friends who I know will be attending in Glasgow next week..... F*CK ME - like over 2hrs of banger after banger!!!!!!!! Remember to take your AIR Slide / Ukulele / Fiddle / Banjo / Acoustic / Electric - F*CK IT - take it all - you're gonna need them in-between all that toe-tapping, thigh-slapping, rock -chickin AWESOMENESS!!!!! Couple of cheeky new ones in there too - BRILLIANT! Our Girls also gleefully take the piss outta both Trump and Clinton - HILARIOUS!!! The Chicks did us proud - it's been worth the wait. We all still knew the songs word for worth - It was BIBLICAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you don't know who these goddesses are - do yourself a favour - take a trip onto YouTube and see what real talent actually looks and sounds like. No - there's no any dance routines, backing tracks, or backing singers doing the real work - just real honest music! And this is all I got - I didn't spent my night taking pictures - I just y'know - LIVED IT!!!!

They were absolutely amazing me and my wife loved it xxx

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Dixie Chicks is a group founded 35 years ago in 1989.

Based on our research data, it appears, that the first Dixie Chicks concert happened 36 years ago on Fri, 04 Aug 1989 in Uncle Calvin's Coffeehouse - Dallas, US and that the last Dixie Chicks concert was 11 months ago on Tue, 31 Oct 2023 in Wolfbrook Arena - Christchurch, New Zealand.

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The Dixie Chicks, Long Past Making Nice

By Alan Light

• June 10, 2016

CINCINNATI — In 2011, Martie Maguire of the Dixie Chicks took her twin daughters to a Taylor Swift concert, and it churned up some melancholy.

The Chicks, whose bluegrass roots and rock ’n’ roll spirit broke down country music barriers and made them the best-selling female band of all time in the United States, were in the middle of a lengthy hiatus. The trio had not been heard from since scaling back a 2006 tour that suffered from continuing reverberations from “the incident” : a remark the singer Natalie Maines had made about President George W. Bush a few years earlier.

“I was feeling like maybe our time had passed, and this was Taylor’s time,” said Ms. Maguire. Then Ms. Swift covered the Chicks’ 1999 hit “Cowboy Take Me Away,” much to her daughters’ astonishment, and the crowd sang along. Loudly.

Ms. Maguire said the moment was “surreal” and “super emotional.” Apparently, the world had not forgotten about the Dixie Chicks, whose four studio albums sold more than 30 million copies. Now, the band — Ms. Maines, Ms. Maguire and Emily Strayer — is finding out how much of its fan base is still out there. When the group members realized that 2015 would be their 20th anniversary together, they started thinking about how to mark the occasion; last week, they set out on their first headlining tour in the United States in 10 years. (They play Madison Square Garden on Monday, June 13.)

During the band’s break, Ms. Maguire and Ms. Strayer released two albums under the name Court Yard Hounds, and Ms. Maines put out a solo record , but they say that for now, new Dixie Chicks music is “not on the agenda.” Ms. Strayer (who was known as Emily Robison during the band’s glory years and who remarried in 2013) said that she and Ms. Maguire write regularly, “just to keep the muscle moving.” Ms. Maines added, “My muscle for songwriting is like a 600-pound man right now — way flabby, not exercised at all.”

But live, the trio sounds like it has never been away. “I just wait for it to feel right, and it felt right,” said Ms. Maines, 41, on the night before the 53-city “DCX MMXVI Tour” kicked off. The Chicks gathered in a backstage lounge at the Riverbend Music Center, an outdoor amphitheater on the banks of the Ohio River here, and happily talked over one another, making their decision to return to the spotlight sound casual and carefree.

If the Riverbend audience is representative, the Chicks’ fans are primed for this comeback. The sold-out show cleared more than 20,000 tickets, one of their biggest crowds ever. Forty-something fans filled the more expensive seats under the roof, while packs of raucous college-age women in tank tops, jean shorts and boots packed the lawn area.

The rise and fall of the Dixie Chicks, with its extreme highs and lows, seems practically scripted for maximum drama. Ms. Strayer, 43, who plays banjo and guitar, and Ms. Maguire, 46, a fiddle player, are sisters (born Emily and Martha Erwin), who were among the co-founders of the band. It took its name from Little Feat’s hit “Dixie Chicken,” in Dallas in the late 1980s. After a few independent releases and lineup changes, Ms. Maines stepped in as lead singer in 1995.

The group seemed to come out of nowhere when its 1997 album, “Wide Open Spaces,” spun off three No. 1 singles on the country charts and was certified 12 times platinum. Its 1999 follow-up, “Fly,” slightly modernized the band’s sound and style, and sold 10 million copies.

As they racked up honors, including multiple Grammy Awards (13 to date), the Dixie Chicks were helping transform the playing field in Nashville and empowering a generation of female musicians.

“When we saw these women writing witty, intelligent music; playing instruments; and basically doing it all, it inspired us to do the same,” wrote Madison Marlow, of the country duo Maddie & Tae, in an email.

Her partner, Taylor Dye (who, like Ms. Marlow, was all of 2 when “Wide Open Spaces” was released), added, “The Dixie Chicks encouraged us all to unapologetically be who we are.”

Then, in 2001, the Chicks sued their label, Sony Music, for unpaid royalties; they settled out of court, but it delayed the release of the 2002 acoustic-based “Home.” Though the record’s sound was less conventionally commercial, it sold six million copies.

But in March 2003, in the days leading up to the invasion of Iraq, Ms. Maines introduced the song “Travelin’ Soldier” at a London concert. “Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all,” she said. “We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas.”

A firestorm erupted back home. Country radio stations banned the group’s music; protesters smashed and burned the band’s CDs; Ms. Maines received death threats. The Chicks appeared nude on the cover of Entertainment Weekly magazine , with some of the slurs directed at them — “Saddam’s Angels,” “Dixie Sluts” — painted on their bodies. (The events were chronicled in the 2006 documentary “Shut Up & Sing.” )

Though “the incident” has come to largely define the public legacy of the Dixie Chicks, often overwhelming their musical contributions, the band members now seem to shrug it off. They laugh when Ms. Maguire recounts recently visiting a friend, who instructed her not to go into the bathroom because she might be offended by something on the wall — a picture of the family with President Bush.

“I’m really proud of what went down,” said Ms. Maines. “I spoke up for what I believe — that’s what art is about and what musicians should be about. And if I’d known anybody was listening, I would have said something to really make a mark.”

“I look at how much more polarized and intolerant people have become now,” she continued. “With social media, opinions all start becoming noise, but at that point, people weren’t really supposed to have an opinion.”

Ms. Strayer said that the controversy “feels like another lifetime to me, it doesn’t even feel real — our country’s changed, we’ve changed, the fans definitely have.”

She described a recent phone call from her ex-husband. “He said, ‘Well, what’s going to happen the day that the kids find that Entertainment Weekly cover, what are you going to tell them?’ — like, ‘Gotcha!’ So I said, ‘Well, I’ll probably explain to them what happened to us, and how you have to stand up for yourself when something like that happens.’”

Ms. Maines added, with a guffaw, “I’m going to tell them, ‘This is how good Mommy’s body looked before she had you!’”

Ms. Maines has remained active in various social causes. She has been a supporter of the West Memphis Three, a group of Arkansas men convicted of the 1993 murder of three young boys. And on the current tour, she is raising funds for Proclaim Justice, an organization that advocates for the wrongfully imprisoned. Ms. Maines expressed reluctance, though, about getting involved in the current presidential election.

“I hate politics,” she said. “It’s become an industry. It sickens me.”

During the concert, the Chicks’ performance of “Ready to Run” was accompanied by video screens with goofy animated images of all the candidates, crosscut with shots of clowns and hot dogs. But one moment in the show received particular attention in the news media : While they sang their 2000 hit “Goodbye Earl,” a tale of a woman and her best friend murdering an abusive husband, a montage of criminals and shady-looking characters through history flashed to a quick shot of Donald J. Trump, with devil horns, a mustache and a goatee scribbled on. In a sign of changing times, it drew cheers.

“He’s great entertainment for a reality show,” said Ms. Maines. “He’s scary as hell for president of the United States.” (Social media response was predictable, with the Dixie Chicks’ Facebook page instantly filling up with comments like “You idiots should keep your politics to yourselves and stick to playing music.”)

One thing that never recovered was the Dixie Chicks’ relationship with Nashville. Their last album, the 2006 LP “Taking the Long Way,” took a more pop-oriented direction on its way to winning five Grammy Awards . The band members claim to pay no attention to country music today; Ms. Strayer even needed to describe to the other two last year’s “Tomato-gate” controversy , when an influential radio consultant insisted that country stations needed to limit how much music they play by female artists.

The 24-song set at Riverbend illustrated some of the music that is closer to the band’s heart these days, including covers of a song by Lana Del Rey and by the group favorite Beyoncé: a hoedown version of “Daddy Lessons,” which became a viral hit when they first performed it, just a week after the release of “Lemonade.”

Ms. Maguire expressed the closest thing to regret about taking a decade away from the group. “I don’t love that we didn’t do anything for 10 years,” she said. “But I’m really proud that we focused so intently on our children.”

In the end, the biggest deal about this tour for the Dixie Chicks may be that it offers the first chance for their sons and daughters — nine in total, ranging in age from 3 to 15 — to see their mothers at work. “I realized that my second-oldest daughter had never even seen our videos,” said Ms. Strayer, “so about a month ago, we sat in bed and watched them all — and she was mortified. ‘You did not wear that! You did not just do that!’”

Ms. Maines reiterated that, especially after their experiences, she had no problem walking away from the celebrity mountaintop. “You look at the stars who do maintain staying on top and honestly it looks like so much work and self-involvement,” she said. “I wouldn’t have done all this personal growth and become the person that I’ve worked on becoming. There’s something almost sad about that being what you’re so hungry for — I just don’t relate to that. So I was happy to pass the baton.”

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The Dixie Chicks are back on tour in America today. Here’s why it’s a big deal.

On Wednesday night at an amphitheater in Cincinnati, the Dixie Chicks will take the stage in front of thousands. It’s a significant moment for the Texas trio, as it marks the first time they’ll headline a tour in America in 10 years.

After everything that happened with the polarizing group, who would have thought Natalie Maines, Emily Robison and Martie Maguire would ever return? With massive success in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Dixie Chicks became one of the highest-selling female bands in history with albums from “Wide Open Spaces” to “Home.” Then, of course, everything imploded in March 2003 when Maines uttered her famous statement about President George W. Bush during a concert in Britain, close to the invasion of Iraq: “We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas.”

Country music fans reacted with horror — the Dixie Chicks were soon dropped from country radio, and their hit single at the time, “Travelin’ Soldier,” plummeted from the top of the charts. As shown in the documentary “Shut Up and Sing” about the aftermath of the controversy, one country station invited people to trash their Dixie Chicks CDs; another scene showed a tractor crushing a huge pile of albums. The group lost sponsorship deals and ticket sales, and were vilified by the Internet and some fellow Nashville stars. Not to mention receiving death threats.

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In the midst of it all, the group released one more album, the fiery, unapologetic “Taking the Long Way” and went on another tour in 2006 — some dates had to be scrapped because of lack of sales. The tour wrapped in Dallas in December 2006; a couple of months later, they scooped up a bunch of Grammy Awards (including album of the year) for “Taking the Long Way.” After that, it appeared the Dixie Chicks were done …

… until now. In the last decade, the trio tried out new projects, as Maines recorded a rock album and sisters Robison and Maguire formed a bluegrass duo called the Courtyard Hounds . Though they performed as the Dixie Chicks on quick tours in Europe and had scattered dates opening for the Eagles in America, this is the first time they’ll attempt a headlining tour (titled DCX MMXVI World Tour) in the United States since the fallout.

The question remains: How will it go when they return to the country where they’re still considered polarizing? While the Cincinnati opening night tour stop is sold out, tickets are still readily available for some shows in other areas, where the group is playing some pretty big venues. So much time has passed, but when you say “Dixie Chicks” in America, people still vividly remember the controversy.

“What sucks is where people’s opinions used to be a truer opinion about our music, now it feels tainted,” Maines recently told the Oakland Press . “If someone hates it, it’s probably because they hate me politically. So the judgment of it just isn’t as honest and pure as it used to be.”

On their recent European leg of the tour, the crowds were thrilled to see the Dixie Chicks — they remain quite popular overseas. And no, in case you’re wondering, they’re still not afraid of speaking up about politics. On a screen with background graphics during the European shows, there were caricatures of all this year’s presidential hopefuls when the group played “Ready to Run.” And during their famed hit “Goodbye Earl” (about two women who poison a physically abusive man), the screen showed a picture of abusive men throughout history — and an image of Donald Trump with devil horns.

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The Chicks Schedule Long-Awaited Live Return With Summer 2022 North American Tour

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The trio formerly known as the Dixie Chicks are heading back out on the road this summer for the first time as the Chicks . The country band has scheduled a tour spanning 27 cities in North America in support of their 2020 album Gaslighter , the band’s first in 14 years. Jenny Lewis and Patty Griffin will join for select tour dates.

The Chicks Tour will begin on June 14 at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in St. Louis, Missouri, and make stops in Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Los Angeles, and more. The trek will conclude at the Gorge in George, Washington on Aug. 13. Ticket sales begin on Friday, March 4 via Ticketmaster .

Two years before Gaslighter , the Chicks shared the live album DCX MMXVI Live from their expansive 2018 tour. But it was their 2016 reunion on the road that inspired them to get back in the studio to create the follow-up to 2006’s Taking the Long Way.

“It was putting our toes in the water, seeing who was still out there in fandom,” Emily Strayer told NPR in 2020. “Our demographic was still the same, but had changed as well, so we had mothers bringing daughters, we had all walks of life; it was just really, really a fun tour. I think after that, we’re like, ‘OK, let’s do another album.’”

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June 14 – St Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre June 15 – Chicago, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre June 19 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center June 21 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center June 22 – Detroit, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre June 24 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage June 27 – Cleveland, OH @ Blossom Music Center June 29 – Syracuse, NY @ St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview June 30 – Hartford, CT @ Xfinity Theatre July 2 – Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theatre July 5 – Boston, MA @ Xfinity Center July 6 – Holmdel, NJ @ P.N.C. Bank Arts Center July 8 – Camden, NJ @ Waterfront Music Pavilion July 9 – Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live July 12 – Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek July 14 – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion July 16 – Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre July 23 – San Diego, CA @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre July 25 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre July 26 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre July 29 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl July 30 – Mountain View, CA @Shoreline Amphitheatre Aug. 2 – Denver, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre Aug. 5 – Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre Aug. 6 – Boise, ID @ Ford Idaho Center Amphitheatre Aug. 9 – Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater Aug. 13 – George, WA @ The Gorge Amphitheatre

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The Chicks are headed back on tour this summer in first major outing since 2017

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Twelve-time Grammy winners The Chicks are heading back on tour, their first major outing since 2017 and first shows since releasing their 2020 studio album "Gaslighter."

The multi-platinum female trio behind hits like "Wide Open Spaces" announced on Monday that The Chicks Tour will hit 27 North American cities starting in June and running through August. 

"While we were recording the 'Gaslighter' album, I was constantly picturing performing all of those songs on tour," said Martie Maguire, who together with her sister Emily Strayer and Natalie Maines make up The Chicks, in a statement to the AP. "The ultimate payoff is always the live show for us."

The Chicks released "Gaslighter" in 2020, their first studio album in 14 years, but the pandemic derailed plans for a tour. This summer tour will start in St. Louis on June 14, with stops in Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Charlotte, two nights in Los Angeles and the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver. 

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"What I have missed the most about touring is the first couple minutes of every show," said Strayer. "The house lights going dark, the roar of the crowd and the opening song pumping through the PA. I think we've all missed being connected through live music!"

Tour openers include Grammy winner singer-songwriter Patty Griffin and indie rocker Jenny Lewis. 

"Most of our fans know that we are die hard Patty fans," said Maines in a statement. "The three of us saw her at The Ryman back in 1998 and we haven't left her alone since! She opened for us on our first headlining tour in 2000, and we have covered more of her songs than anybody else."

Tickets go on sale on Friday. 

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The Chicks were formerly known as The Dixie Chicks, but changed their name in June 2020 as the country sought racial justice and awareness.

"We want to meet this moment," read a message posted on the country group's site at the time, signed by all members. The name change was accompanied by a song, "March March," with a video filled with footage of protests through the ages, and listing the names of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and dozens more.

The use of "Dixie" — and its association with the Confederate states — came under scrutiny during that time. The Chicks' former name is a play on “Dixie Chicken,” a song and album by rock group Little Feat. 

Contributing: Dave Paulson, Nashville Tennessean

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Country trio The Chicks (FKA The Dixie Chicks) have announced a 27-date summer tour. It will be their first major run since the DCX MMXVI World Tour and (hopefully) rife with live debuts from the band's 2020 album, Gaslighter . The tour kicks off June 14 in St. Louis, Missouri and wraps up August 13 at The Gorge in Washington. Patty Griffin and Jenny Lewis will support. Full list of dates below.

The Chicks 2022 Tour Dates: 06/14 – Maryland Heights, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre * 06/15 – Tinley Park, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre * 06/17 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music Festival 06/19 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center * 06/21 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center * 06/22 – Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre * 06/24 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage * 06/27 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center * 06/29 – Syracuse, NY @ St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview * 06/30 – Hartford, CT @ Xfinity Theatre * 07/02 – Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theatre * 07/05 – Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center * 07/06 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center * 07/08 – Camden, NJ @ Waterfront Music Pavilion * 07/09 – Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live * 07/12 – Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek * 07/14 – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion * 07/16 – Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre * 07/23 – Chula Vista, CA @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre ^ 07/25 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre ^ 07/26 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre ^ 07/29 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl ^ 07/30 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre ^ 08/02 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre ^ 08/05 – West Valley City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre * 08/06 – Boise, ID @ Ford Idaho Center Amphitheatre * 08/09 – Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater * 08/13 – George, WA @ The Gorge Amphitheatre *

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The Untold Truth Of The Dixie Chicks

The Dixie Chicks have brought a number of uber-catchy, pop-country songs like "Goodbye Earl," "Wide Open Spaces," and "Travelin' Soldier" into the world over the years, winning them multiple Grammy Awards and shaking up the country music industry. Comprised of sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer, as well as lead vocalist Natalie Maines, the trio officially formed in 1995, and, by the late '90s, they were dominating the airwaves. They spent the next decade at the top of the charts, before going on a hiatus in the late 2000s.

However, the Dixie Chicks weren't gone for good, as they went on a world tour in 2016, performed alongside  Beyoncé at the 2016 Country Music Association Awards, collaborated with Taylor Swift in 2019, and announced a new album in 2020: Gaslighter . So if you thought the Dixie Chicks were done, you were wrong — thank goodness!

So what else is there to know about the insanely talented trio? And why did they really take a 14-year hiatus? Read on to discover the untold truth of the Dixie Chicks.

How did the Dixie Chicks get their name?

While the Dixie Chicks in their current incarnation were formed in 1995, their story starts several years before in 1989 in Dallas, Texas. That's when Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer began making music together as the Dixie Chicks, but with two other members: vocalist Laura Lynch and guitar player Robin Lynn Macy. After several years of cutting albums and performing together, the original lineup shuffled and changed until Natalie Maines was added in 1995. That's when the glue dried and the magic happened for the trio, heralding their imminent rise to musical stardom.

So where did Maguire and Strayer come up with the moniker of Dixie Chicks? As it turns out, they named themselves after the Little Feat song " Dixie Chicken ," which was popular in the late '80s, according to The New York Times . Unlike some bands, who try on a variety of names before the right one sticks, the Dixie Chicks found one with staying power right out of the gate.

The Dixie Chicks almost didn't survive this controversy

While plenty of musicians are open about their political beliefs and the causes they support, not all of them have faced the backlash that the Dixie Chicks did back in 2003. One March evening that year, while on stage in London, Natalie Maines got candid concerning her feelings about the Iraq War, as reported by Rolling Stone . "Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all," she said to the crowd. "We do not want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas."

What Maines hadn't anticipated was the anger that statement would arouse in both country music fans and radio programmers, who were furious about her remarks. The band received criticism from pundits and threats from hysterical haters, but the women soldiered on despite the crowds that smashed their CDs outside of their concerts. 

That experience forever changed the trio, and understandably so. "I joke that I have PTSD, but there's probably truth in that joke," Maines confessed to Rolling Stone . "It all put an ugly light on people that I was kind of happily naive to."

Martie Maguire thought the Dixie Chicks were over... until Taylor Swift changed her mind

While the Dixie Chicks came back in a big way after dropping " Gaslighter " in 2020, quickly racking up millions of views and streams, their eagerly-anticipated return wasn't always 100 percent in the cards. That was something that Martie Maguire pondered at a 2011 Taylor Swift concert with her daughter. "I was feeling like maybe our time had passed, and this was Taylor's time," she revealed to  The New York Times . How sad!

But then, something rather magical happened: Swift launched into a cover of the Dixie Chicks' 1999 hit song "Cowboy Take Me Away." Much to both her and her daughter's surprise, the crowd sang along to the entire song with great gusto, showing Maguire that there was still lots of love out there for the Dixie Chicks. She called the experience both "super emotional" and "surreal," understandably overjoyed to learn that the Dixie Chicks had not been forgotten. What an inspiring moment!

The Dixie Chicks are proud of their 2020 comeback album

"Gaslighter" is the first single from the Dixie Chicks' 2020 album, and there's no question that the trio take great pride in their work. "I'm so proud of this album. No matter what happens with it," Emily Strayer gushed in an interview with Allure . "It might be a slow burn; it might be a quick burn. I don't know, but it will find its way to our fans." That's despite the fact that country radio stations have been shown to discriminate against female artists, according to Rolling Stone .

But given the changes in the music industry that have happened since the Dixie Chicks released their last album, such as streaming platforms and social media, there are fewer barriers now between bands and their fans. So it might not matter if radio stations decline to spin Dixie Chicks records at all.

Natalie Maines also said she's extremely proud of the album and that any success it has will be the cherry on top of the sundae.

Before the Dixie Chicks made their 2020 album, this member went to therapy

Before the Dixie Chicks were able to return to the studio together to record Gaslighter , Natalie Maines had some important work to do on herself. Specifically, she started going to therapy, and not just because of the scars left from the Iraq War controversy fallout. "I think I've always been sort of a person that just pushes the feelings down, and then they do eventually come back up," she revealed to Rolling Stone . "So I didn't have tools to know how to deal with them or acknowledge them." 

Additionally, for a long time, Maines knew that Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire longed to return to the studio as a trio, and that obligation gnawed at her as well. "That was a lot of what I had to work out in therapy, too, because you do become this unit and you do feel an obligation," she continued.

Fortunately, Maines did get back into a space where she felt creative, and that empowered her to once again be a Dixie Chick.

When the Dixie Chicks released "Goodbye Earl," it was met with controversy

In 1999, the Dixie Chicks released their album  Fly , which, true to form, broke the rules and occupied the top spot on the charts, according to Rolling Stone . But it was one track in particular that stirred up controversy: " Goodbye Earl ," about a woman named Wanda who ends her abusive husband's life. Natalie Maines delivers the vocals with glee, detailing how Wanda and her friend Mary Anne put Earl in the ground and get away with the crime.

While the Dixie Chicks were clearly singing tongue in their cheek, some listeners were offended by the lyrical content, as they felt it glorified domestic violence. Many radio stations refused to play the song, too, but that didn't stop the song's success, according to country music editor Lon Helton. "The single is going up our [country airplay] charts as fast as any single the Chicks have put out," he explained to the Los Angeles Times . "Programmers were nervous at first about offending parts of their audience, but I think they've gotten the message."

Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks is proud of what she said about President Bush

Despite the fact that Natalie Maines' remarks about President George W. Bush and the Iraq War sparked intense controversy, the Dixie Chicks member doesn't regret what she said on that fateful night. "I'm really proud of what went down," she revealed in an interview with The New York Times . "I spoke up for what I believe — that's what art is about and what musicians should be about." That's a pretty brave sentiment, given how scary things got at times, which was chronicled in the 2006 documentary Shut Up and Sing . It was intense, to say the least!

In fact, if Maines was given the chance to do it all over again, she would have been even more emphatic in her criticism of the 43rd president. "If I'd known anybody was listening, I would have said something to really make a mark," she continued. She went on, "With social media, opinions all start becoming noise, but at that point, people weren't really supposed to have an opinion."

The Dixie Chicks are done with the country music industry

While the Dixie Chicks have always done things a little differently than their peers, they had nothing but fond feelings for the country music industry at the outset. "We always waved that country flag when people would say it wasn't cool," Natalie Maines revealed in an interview with Allure . "And then to see how quickly the entire industry turned on us..." It was sobering for them, to say the least, in the wake of the 2003 Iraq War controversy.

To that end, the Dixie Chicks have said they're done trying to fit in with the country music world, as they haven't felt like a part of it for some time. "I was shocked that people thought that we were different than what we were," Maines continued. "I always felt like we were so genuine."

Given that streaming platforms have changed the way people think about musical genres , it will be interesting to see what direction that the Dixie Chicks go in the future. Only time can tell.

In 2001, the Dixie Chicks sued their record label

One of the biggest fights that the Dixie Chicks had to deal with started in July 2001, when the trio filed a lawsuit against their record label. They told Sony that they planned to stop recording with the label with paperwork, as noted by CBS News . In response, Sony sued the Dixie Chicks, stating that they were obligated to record five additional albums, lest they be out $100 million.

That wasn't the end of the story, however, as the Dixie Chicks then accused Sony of breach of contract in another lawsuit, claiming that they were due millions of dollars in unpaid royalties. Clearly they were not backing down!

Both parties settled the following year, with Sony issuing the Dixie Chicks a new record contract that upped their royalty rate to 20 percent. They also got a $20 million bonus, though they had to cough up $15 million to Sony for marketing costs as well. With both parties satisfied, the Dixie Chicks were clear to release their album Home . "Our reconciliation with Sony Music couldn't have come at a better time," they said in a statement.

Natalie Maines knew immediately that the Dixie Chicks were going to be great

While Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire had been with the Dixie Chicks since the beginning, Natalie Maines came in years after they initially formed the band. But that didn't stop Maines from being 100 percent sure they were going to make it big, a confidence the other two members didn't necessarily share. "Before the first show, I was like, 'No big deal, we're gonna be great,'" she proclaimed in an interview with Rolling Stone . "And I remember Martie [Maguire] was freaking out." 

Maines then asked Maguire why she was so nervous, aware that she and Strayer had yet to find the success they longed for. "I'm sure on the inside, she's going, 'Because I've done this for 10 years!' But it was great," she continued. "I was right — that was just the beginning of her learning that I am right!"

Indeed Maines was correct in her prognostication, as shortly thereafter the Dixie Chicks signed a record deal — and became famous seemingly overnight.

Emily Strayer of the Dixie Chicks can play eight instruments

If you've done your homework on the Dixie Chicks, you probably know that all three of them are insanely talented when it comes to their abilities. In fact, Emily Strayer, who usually defaults to the banjo or guitar, can actually play eight instruments. "When I'm home, I want to play things I don't know how to play," she told Allure . "I'm trying to learn the piano, or I'll pick up a ukulele." She added that her husband bought her a drum set too, though she says she's not very good at using it.

Being proficient on so many instruments is rare for a person, let alone a woman, and that's something that's not lost on Martie Maguire and Natalie Maines. "I don't know about you guys, but when I see a girl rip a guitar solo, I'm blown away," Maines shared. "It's still very rare." Rare, maybe, but, thanks to the Dixie Chicks, it's a reality.

Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks is a total introvert

Despite the fact that the Dixie Chicks are world famous and poised to have a long and enduring career, Natalie Maines isn't outgoing just because she's a lead singer — far from it, actually. "I never want to leave my house, ever. I hate going out," she confessed in a chat with  Allure .  "I'm an introvert." That sentiment was echoed by Martie Maguire, who also describes herself as an introvert.

Maines also wears the same thing every day — allegedly a Miley Cyrus hoodie, according to her bandmates — and dislikes ever having to femme it up. "I hate thinking about clothes," she explained to Rolling Stone . "I hate shopping. I haven't gotten a manicure or pedicure in six years." She also loves her super short haircut , though she admits her children wish she would grow it back out. Sorry, kids, but that's probably not going to happen.

Why did the Dixie Chicks take such a long hiatus?

While the fallout from the Iraq War controversy would be enough for anyone to want to take a break, that wasn't the main reason the Dixie Chicks took such a long hiatus. Rather, as Martie Maguire explained, all three of the women had family obligations to attend to. "Our nine kids collectively are why we paused for so long, and finding out that teenagers are a lot harder than babies," she revealed in an interview with Apple Music . Sounds like they had their hands full!

While each of the Dixie Chicks put out new music during their time apart — Natalie Maines put out a solo album , and Emily Strayer and Maguire released songs as the Court Yard Hounds — the impetus to really get the band back together took a while to manifest. "I think the tour in 2016 really solidified our want to do this," Strayer added.

The Dixie Chicks believe in their kids' generation

With all that the Dixie Chicks have been through together, it seems natural that they hope the world can be a better place in the future. As to how that will happen, the trio believe that their children will be a force for change. "I actually feel like there's a shift happening right now," Martie Maguire told Allure . "I'm amazed when I hear my daughters with their friends." She added that it gives her hope to see her children be so open-minded on issues such as gender .

Emily Strayer agrees, and she shared that she's learning a lot from her kids' generation. "It's the young people that are going to save the world," she proclaimed. "I've been buying all the reusable this, that, and the other, and I think it's just starting."

Natalie Maines also expressed her concern about the climate crisis, and she hopes that collective change can cause the government to take action.

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The tour, originally slated to take place in 2020 after the release of 'Gaslighter,' starts June 14.

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If things had gone according to plan, The Chicks would have hit the road during the summer of 2020 to support Gaslighter , the trio’s first album since 2006’s Grammy-winning Taking the Long Way.

We all know how that went, though.

But two years later lead singer Natalie Maines and multi-instrumentalist sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer are ready to make up for lost time. The Chicks Tour is ready to start June 14 in St. Louis, with 31 dates on tap before wrapping up Aug. 13 at The Gorge in George, Wash. It will mark the trio’s first time back on the road since 2017, and the first time touring as The Chicks after jettisoning the “Dixie” from their name in 2020.

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“The band, they’re on Zooms together all the time listening to [ Gaslighter ] and figuring out, ‘What’s that?'” Maines says by Zoom from her home in Los Angeles, while Maguire and Strayer listen from Austin and San Antonio, Texas, respectively. Jack Antonoff, Gaslighter ‘s primary producer, was slated to sit in on one of the band calls, too, to help identify specific parts and sounds from the album’s 12 songs.

“It’s interesting,” says Maines, who hasn’t seen Strayer in person since the spring of 2020 (she and Maguire took their children to Disneyland last July). “It’ll be fun. I am a little stressed. My son, who is in the band this year [playing guitar and keyboards], is constantly stressed and practices all the time. I’m like, ‘Slade, really, I promise you, it’ s not gonna be as hard as you think. You already know the stuff better than us. Relax!'”

Strayer adds that The Chicks “were pretty deep into the planning process” in 2020 before the trek was canceled due to the pandemic. That, in turn, sent the group back to the drawing board for this year’s outing. “We kinda scrapped everything,” she says, “so we started from scratch. It’s been like planning two tours in two years, which is a lot for us. But for me the touring is the fun part of this whole process and getting to do set design and work out all the visuals that go along with the music, that’s one of the biggest payoffs, I think, for being an artist. So it is fun.”

Maines predicts that the songs from Gaslighter — which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart in July 2020 — will be performed faithfully during the shows. “Usually, the first time out on new material we like to hear it like we painstakingly recorded it and see if we can do it,” she explains. “After that we can get creative with it.” That leaves material from the previous four albums (since Maines joined the band) potentially more pliable, but Maines promises The Chicks are well aware of how familiar their fans are with those songs — and that they haven’t heard them performed live for quite some time.

“I hate when people get too off,” Maines acknowledges. “It’s no fun if you go to a concert you love to sing along to, and they’ve changed it all up. We keep that in mind. We want our fans to be able to enjoy it and recognize it and sing along. So it’s not about changing melody or anything. We’ve done ‘Cowboy Take Me Away’ like the album version for, I hate to count the years… so maybe you’d just do it more broken down or something like that.”

What may be at work, however, is a different connection the group and particularly Maines may feel towards the Gaslighter songs. Many of the album’s more personal tracks were inspired by all three members’ divorces — and especially Maines’ acrimonious divorce from actor Adrian Pasdar, during which he sought access to unreleased songs that he alleged might violate confidentiality clauses in the couple’s prenuptial agreement. Two years on Maines says that, “I definitely still relate and am definitely still in touch with all that,” but from a different perspective. “It’s not a three-hanky album anymore,” she explains. “It definitely is in the past, and it definitely was a lot of therapy.”

All three of The Chicks, meanwhile, say they’ve had feedback from fans that Gaslighter has helped them through their own divorces and relationship issues. And Maines is quick to note that “all of the songs definitely didn’t feel like they were about me,” including issue-oriented songs such as the single “March March” that resonate as strongly now – especially in the wake of the renewed Black Lives Matter movement and restrictive abortion and voting laws in the group’s native Texas and elsewhere — as when they were originally written.

“In the releasing of the album I remember being really hopeful,” Maines says. “I kept thinking things are gonna be different, not because of our music, but things seemed so bad. I just remember feel like, ‘Oh, the video for ‘March March’ is so empowering. It’s not gonna be like this. And it’s really disappointing to see that it’s maybe worse now. I thought that would be better.”

The Chicks say they’ve received overwhelmingly positive reaction to the band’s name change that accompanied Gaslighter , something they say they’d been contemplating for awhile. “I remember in the moment we couldn’t do it fast enough,” Maguire says, “but there were so many things we had to do in order to have the new name. We wanted to do it today because everything was so intense in the moment. We like to be in front of things, not a step behind, especially something that matters like that. We were like, ‘OK, if NASCAR’s doing this, we’ve just got to get on board.” Maines says there are still occasions where “I’ll read something in email that refers to a band bank account that says Dixie Chicks or something, and I’m like, ‘We’re not the Dixie Chicks!’ It bothers me to see that word now.”

The Chicks Tour is, understandably, taking up the trio’s attention right now, but there are also thoughts about what might be next. With their children older — Strayer has the youngest, at nine years old — they say there’s more time to write and plan and devote to music. There’s even “an album in mind,” one that “not necessarily requires writing,” according to Maines. “It’s possibly an album that’s all songs of a songwriter we all love — I’ll say that.” Another 14-year interim is unlikely, then. “Nah,” Maines says, “it’ll probably be more like…eight,” as her bandmates laugh.

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The Dixie Chicks backlash begins

In response to the critical comments made about him by singer Natalie Maines in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq , President George W. Bush offered this response: “The Dixie Chicks are free to speak their mind. They can say what they want to say.” Of the backlash the Chicks (then known as the Dixie Chicks) were then facing within the world of country music, President Bush added: “They shouldn’t have their feelings hurt just because some people don’t want to buy their records when they speak out.” This music-related sideshow to the biggest international news story of the year began on March 12, 2003, when the British newspaper The Guardian published its review of a Chicks concert at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London two nights earlier.

In that review, The Guardian ‘s Betty Clarke included the following line: “‘Just so you know,’ says singer Natalie Maines, ‘We’re ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas .'” (Clarke left out the middle of the full quotation, which was, “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 the President of the United States is from Texas.”) That line quickly became fodder for a grassroots anti-Chicks backlash. It began with thousands of phone calls flooding country-music radio stations from Denver to Nashville—calls demanding that the Chicks be removed from the stations’ playlists. Soon some of those same stations were calling for a boycott of the recent Chicks’ album and of their upcoming U.S. tour. Fellow country star Toby Keith famously joined the fray by performing in front of a backdrop that featured a gigantic image of Natalie Maines beside Saddam Hussein.

The economic and emotional impact of all this on the members of the Chicks is documented in the 2006 documentary Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing . In its opening sequence, one can see how popular and how far from controversial the Chicks were just prior to this controversy, when they sang the national anthem at the 2003 Super Bowl. The film also captures a scene in which the Chicks’ own media handler is counseling Maines not to speak her mind too openly about President Bush in an upcoming interview with Diane Sawyer. 

In 2020, after a 15-year hiatus, the Chicks released a new album, "Gaslighter." That same year they announced they were changing their name to the Chicks, dropping the word "Dixie"

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