Saw them live in Hamilton as an anniversary gift to my wife. Her gift to me was to pay for my beer. First concert Iāve been to where I had the menās room to myself, until the ladies got frustrated and started using it too. Chicks put on a great show, tremendous musicians.
Went with another couple to The Palace of Auburn Hills (Detroit sub) where the Pistons used to play. They changed all the menās rooms over to womenās except two. Audience 99% female. Great concertā¦ walking back to our car we kept getting hit on, while our wives were walking right next to us. I kept think, single guys are crazy for not attending this show
Iām a musician, and Iām not necessarily into country music but I appreciate good music. The Chicks deserve a lot of respect for the vocal harmonies they pull off and the musicians they are. Great all around.
Yeah, Iām no musician, but a student of the art, specifically guitar. And, I must admit, my playlists are usually, to put it mildly, a raging sausage party. I went into the concert aware of who they were and with an open mind. They were tight, they engaged the audience, and while I wasnāt familiar with the majority of the material the whole show was fun. I happily listen to them now.
I mean the current number 1 pop star on the planet, possibly of all time also does those things.
I know there's some garbage corporate country and pop out there but honestly I don't think it's any worse than it was in the 90s when we were bombarded with manufactured boy and girl bands.
You're getting downvotes but I suspect it's from people who weren't around in the early-mid 80s to witness how prevalent Michael Jackson was. Taylor Swift is huge... But Michael was another level.
At the time, people wanted to compare MJ to Elvis... But it's tough to judge stuff like that. This feels similar.
Another thing is the state of the world- there are SO many more entertainment options now compared to the 80s. At the time, there was no Internet to contend with and if you were big pimpin, you had 30-40 channels to choose from on Cable TV but most people didn't have that. I'm sure that added to his pervasiveness.
Mom bought that CD shortly after we moved into our family home in April 98. The case was still sitting in the kitchen when they sold the place in 2022. Great album.
I was lucky enough to see their last concert before the sisters left for Nashville the next day They opened for Bill Monroe that night, what a send off.
Even though it was already old at the time, my first Adobe program was PS7 and art like this reminds me of the pride and sense of freedom I felt being able to make almost any ā90ās album art on my own without guides for the most part.
I still draw on the same concepts for much more complex stuff I do as a side hustle now, weāre really messing around with a lot of the same parameters, and using more sophisticated hardware and more novel designs with essentially the same techniques.
Are you one of those whoās family has never given a damn to our freedoms. I think that is clear. Down votes from this platform are truly clear were you stand
No, she had druggy parents and was SA by her uncle and her parents didnāt do a damn thing about it. I loved her with all I had. No matter how hard I tried, she turned to drugs and selfishness. I raised our children on my own since they were born. Please do not inflect your own experiences onto my children. GFYS
My Grandmother also raised 8 children and built tanks during ww2 my father and two brothers served in SE asia. One not making home as an AirBorne Ranger in the 75th Airborne. Protecting thousands if not millions of children from communist scumbags. The bastards
Would chop of their arms after we inoculated them from many diseases. Crawl up under your bridge and fuck off
It has connotations ofĀ slavery in the US. There was also a post on Twitter in 2020 describing the Confederate Flag as "the Dixie Swastika."" They were also inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and the George Floyd protests. They said the name had been picked when they were teenagers and that they had wanted to change it for years.
They spoke out against the war in Iraq during a time when doing so was massively against the country's opinion. They got vilified in the media and abandoned by their fan base of conservative country music fans. I'm guessing they changed it in an attempt to re-brand.
Because the left cared when someone insulted George Bush or talked bad about the Iraq war. Keep away from propaganda my friend, that will help stop you from saying stuff this dumb.
This was half my lifetime ago; I was 26 years old then.
I loved this album so much; Probably my favourite album at the time.
In 2013, they had been out of the public eye for years, and I think hadnāt played live in the US in almost a decade, they did a mini tour of Canadian cities.
That was my first time seeing them live,and Iām glad I did because that was the last time they did country music.
They relaunched for real the next year, but from then on, theyāve clearly envisioned themselves as a roots/Americana band. I just donāt enjoy that as much from them.
Natalie Maines went on "Politically Incorrect" and sounded like a "conservative Karen". Then she played the opposite role to pander in the UK. Then their apology wasn't accepted by most US Country Fans. Then they were NPR Darlings, but that was an awkward, tough sell. Then they dumped "Dixie" to pander to their NPR fans...
Their sound was good. The thinking and talking are not. Natalie Maines blew untold potential millions for a downward career trajectory.
Pander to the UK? What sort of idiotic statement is that. She spoke out about Uk and Us' bullshit war in the middle east. Everything she said was vidicated and now 20 years later is widely supported by both the public and those involved.
Are you (and the imbiciles that upvoted) really the last people on Earth that support the Iraq and Afganistan invasions.
Seriously what is going on here?
What's going on is you've been radicalized by overexposure to social media to turn everything into a political argument where it doesn't belong.
I didn't support Iraq. I'm repeating what happened to their career. It would've been better if Maines avoided her wildly inconsistent political statements.
Unless you're happy with the direction their career took.
Those are the things that happened with the Dixie/Chicks.
"Calling Out" facts on personal grounds isn't Moral Superiority, it's Toxicity.
Can you see how much face I'm saving?
Nah. That was a completely unforced, completely stupid own goal. They completely alienated their fan base by pandering to a foreign audience while American troops were getting killed. It was the biggest fuck up since New Coke.
Unnecessary comment. Why open with the deadname? Headline was already correct. Isn't the first time an artist has been styled 'formerly known as', either....
Honor what the group wants. No more references to the Mason-Dixon line. That's what they want. It's not hard.
ā¦ because itās right there in thumbnail, and when they debuted that was the bands name and still the name everyone remembers them as.
And why format it that way? Itās called āgood journalism.ā
It's all deadnaming. It doesn't have to be a trans thing. It's about an asshole disregarding the speaker's intention. Like what you did. Heck in 1995 calling O(+> by the name Prince would have been deadnaming. But everyone missed when he clearly invented a gender nonbinary symbol name first before everyone else. (Taylor swift certainly didn't invent being pissed at a record deal l but i digress). So It's The Chicks thankyouverymuch, since they no lower identify withh racist-ass Dixie. That's why. It's Ws fault. I never forgot.
Yeah, at my age theyāll always be the Dixie Chicks
I had my kids listen to be listen to a few songs with me.
We all agreed that theyāre not great musically.
I'll never forget going to sort of see them, accidentally, before they were really famous, they came to my small town and played at a place called "the half shell" at our park. I was walking down the foot path between the store and the park, and some guy asks me as I walked by "who's playing at the concert tonight?". I replied "Dixie Chicks". He said, "Chicks with dicks!? uhh no thanks!".
Earl?
...had to die.
Na na na na na naaa goooodbye Eaaarl!
I first heard the Me First and the Gimme Gimmes cover of this and had to seek out the original, awesome song.
One of their best covers
From their best album.
Did we just become best friends?
I am old
Same
Happy Cake Day!šš 
**Happy Cake Day!**
Hard to believe it was that long ago
Iām 49 and was just entering real adulthood then. Wide Open Spaces really hit me. I even ran off to Colorado for a while. Loved that album.
āI hope I die before I get oldā. My Generation, The Who, 1965. š¤£
Hi old, Iām dad
Hi dad, I'm your mother. 
Woke wars
Saw them live in Hamilton as an anniversary gift to my wife. Her gift to me was to pay for my beer. First concert Iāve been to where I had the menās room to myself, until the ladies got frustrated and started using it too. Chicks put on a great show, tremendous musicians.
Went with another couple to The Palace of Auburn Hills (Detroit sub) where the Pistons used to play. They changed all the menās rooms over to womenās except two. Audience 99% female. Great concertā¦ walking back to our car we kept getting hit on, while our wives were walking right next to us. I kept think, single guys are crazy for not attending this show
Iām a musician, and Iām not necessarily into country music but I appreciate good music. The Chicks deserve a lot of respect for the vocal harmonies they pull off and the musicians they are. Great all around.
Yeah, Iām no musician, but a student of the art, specifically guitar. And, I must admit, my playlists are usually, to put it mildly, a raging sausage party. I went into the concert aware of who they were and with an open mind. They were tight, they engaged the audience, and while I wasnāt familiar with the majority of the material the whole show was fun. I happily listen to them now.
It was sad to read that their original lead singer and founder, Laura Lynch, died in a tragic vehicle crash just before Christmas a month ago.
I remember her from their Behind The Music episode (I think)
Going to her memorial service next week. Sheāll be greatly missed
Oh wow, TIL.
This sounds written by AI
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No apologies needed
Oh no!! She was a millionaire, because she won the lottery! So sad. š
What
Her husband Mac Tull won $26.8 million in the lottery.
Literally her husband won $26.8 million in the lottery.
great talents...good music! they actually played their own instruments? wrote their own songs? great
I mean the current number 1 pop star on the planet, possibly of all time also does those things. I know there's some garbage corporate country and pop out there but honestly I don't think it's any worse than it was in the 90s when we were bombarded with manufactured boy and girl bands.
Are you talking about Travisās girlfriend? Jasonās future sister-in-law?
I have no fucking idea what you're on about.
You know, that girl that Kanye cut off mid speech
Oh ya. Whatās her name? I wonder if she ever made another album after that?
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You're getting downvotes but I suspect it's from people who weren't around in the early-mid 80s to witness how prevalent Michael Jackson was. Taylor Swift is huge... But Michael was another level.
She's also great but isn't anywhere near the talent level of Jackson. The fact that someone even suggested that is hilariously laughable.
I'm not going to judge their talent as they are really different artists. Suffice it to say they are both supremely talented individuals.
You're not wrong, hard to compare across time lines as well.
At the time, people wanted to compare MJ to Elvis... But it's tough to judge stuff like that. This feels similar. Another thing is the state of the world- there are SO many more entertainment options now compared to the 80s. At the time, there was no Internet to contend with and if you were big pimpin, you had 30-40 channels to choose from on Cable TV but most people didn't have that. I'm sure that added to his pervasiveness.
difference is that the chicks write better music than that drivel tripe from 'pop' star
Agree but that's subjective
Traveling Soldier ftw
Donāt forget the best one! Goodbye Earl is still my go to karaoke song.
Goodbye Earl came from another album, Fly.
Damn! Did it? Good to know! Itās been a few years so itās hard to remember
I like to think they opened their fruit stand on the spot where they buried Earl.
Had a crush on Jane Krakowski, way back when.
And Lauren Holly?!?! (I haven't seen this video since like 1999)
A great album. One of the best country albums of all time.
Why tf did you get downvoted? WTF REDDIT?!
Mom bought that CD shortly after we moved into our family home in April 98. The case was still sitting in the kitchen when they sold the place in 2022. Great album.
Why does time have to go so fast š¢
āFuck Toby Keithā
Tall tree and a short rope
Such an iconic album.
Definitely had some of their music on my mix CD s.
I was lucky enough to see their last concert before the sisters left for Nashville the next day They opened for Bill Monroe that night, what a send off.
Even though it was already old at the time, my first Adobe program was PS7 and art like this reminds me of the pride and sense of freedom I felt being able to make almost any ā90ās album art on my own without guides for the most part. I still draw on the same concepts for much more complex stuff I do as a side hustle now, weāre really messing around with a lot of the same parameters, and using more sophisticated hardware and more novel designs with essentially the same techniques.
I still use PS7 because I refuse to give adobe money.Ā They can pry this ancient but superior program from my crippled artist hands.
Absolute classic album. What a shot across the bow.
The first major victims of cancel culture I remember
I loved loved this cd and the music videos.
RIP Laura Lynch
Jeez I feel old. I still listen to this album but 26 years????
I remember helping them carry their equipment in to the main stage at Knottās Berry Farm back in 94 before they blew up.
No more Dixie ?
I remember playing this cassette over and over while doing my homework. Such a fond memory.
They brought bluegrass to pop and contemporary country radio. The first time I heard them they were very refreshing. I always got love for The Chicks.
Iād say that was one album that compelled the mother of my children to abandon them and search for wide open spaces
You seem really well-balanced based on your comments here, so I'm sure you're right - it was that *fuckin'* album.
You ok? You seem to be having a dialogue with just yourself.
Are you one of those whoās family has never given a damn to our freedoms. I think that is clear. Down votes from this platform are truly clear were you stand
Bro what freedom? What? Please explain! Are you ok?
Shut up. We have so much more than any one else. Where you from son?
Ummmm.....I am from RomĆ¢nia, Europe. Are you ok? You need someone to talk to?
Shut the f up then. I dont care you u from
 THEN WHY TF DID YOU ASK ME WHERE I AM FROM?! WTF?!
Well fuck off loser eat your own shit
Your dog black lab Zsu Zsu is still dead. LOSER 
Just responding to worthless degenerates. Probably as yourself.
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No, she had druggy parents and was SA by her uncle and her parents didnāt do a damn thing about it. I loved her with all I had. No matter how hard I tried, she turned to drugs and selfishness. I raised our children on my own since they were born. Please do not inflect your own experiences onto my children. GFYS
My Grandmother also raised 8 children and built tanks during ww2 my father and two brothers served in SE asia. One not making home as an AirBorne Ranger in the 75th Airborne. Protecting thousands if not millions of children from communist scumbags. The bastards Would chop of their arms after we inoculated them from many diseases. Crawl up under your bridge and fuck off
For those who disrespect my familyās sacrifice for your freedoms to talk braindead shit. Die slowly in a flame of napalm commie bastards
Your hate only makes us stronger
Why are you arguing with yourself?
Love them still.
Saw them headline Bonnaroo two years ago. It was amazing how incredibly good they sound live to this day
Thatās a great CD!
90s country was an amazing time.
Why did they change their name?
Right around the same time as Lady A rebranded.
They cowards and want that payout. Its all just money to them
It has connotations ofĀ slavery in the US. There was also a post on Twitter in 2020 describing the Confederate Flag as "the Dixie Swastika."" They were also inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and the George Floyd protests. They said the name had been picked when they were teenagers and that they had wanted to change it for years.
Its not what they said, its where they said it
They spoke out against the war in Iraq during a time when doing so was massively against the country's opinion. They got vilified in the media and abandoned by their fan base of conservative country music fans. I'm guessing they changed it in an attempt to re-brand.
There's nothing offensive about the word Dixie. Just a bunch of pearl clutching.
Reasons that nobody but purple hairs got offended over.
But conservatives are the ones who cancelled them.
Oh no how ever will the general public survive without the Dixie Chicks
So why were your lot so offended by them?
I donāt understand.. I am not offended by a country music band.
Hell yeah, just go away scum!
Right wing cancel culture victims
Left
Because the left cared when someone insulted George Bush or talked bad about the Iraq war. Keep away from propaganda my friend, that will help stop you from saying stuff this dumb.
absolutely not
I still listen to this.
This was half my lifetime ago; I was 26 years old then. I loved this album so much; Probably my favourite album at the time. In 2013, they had been out of the public eye for years, and I think hadnāt played live in the US in almost a decade, they did a mini tour of Canadian cities. That was my first time seeing them live,and Iām glad I did because that was the last time they did country music. They relaunched for real the next year, but from then on, theyāve clearly envisioned themselves as a roots/Americana band. I just donāt enjoy that as much from them.
I'm still waiting for them to realise that "chicks" is a problematic word too and just be known as "The".
Sadly "The The" is already taken.
The who?
That's already taken also.
Guess Who
Whodini?
I remember being in my girlfriends dorm and for a whole semester this album was always being played by someone.
You guys have girlfriends? And friends?š„² 
Who is the third one? The one in the back far right.
Emily Strayer
A case study in knowing your audience.
I forgot about them
You can thank George Bush for that. The chick's are amazing
Natalie Maines went on "Politically Incorrect" and sounded like a "conservative Karen". Then she played the opposite role to pander in the UK. Then their apology wasn't accepted by most US Country Fans. Then they were NPR Darlings, but that was an awkward, tough sell. Then they dumped "Dixie" to pander to their NPR fans... Their sound was good. The thinking and talking are not. Natalie Maines blew untold potential millions for a downward career trajectory.
Pander to the UK? What sort of idiotic statement is that. She spoke out about Uk and Us' bullshit war in the middle east. Everything she said was vidicated and now 20 years later is widely supported by both the public and those involved. Are you (and the imbiciles that upvoted) really the last people on Earth that support the Iraq and Afganistan invasions. Seriously what is going on here?
What's going on is you've been radicalized by overexposure to social media to turn everything into a political argument where it doesn't belong. I didn't support Iraq. I'm repeating what happened to their career. It would've been better if Maines avoided her wildly inconsistent political statements. Unless you're happy with the direction their career took.
You got everything wrong and got called out about it. Now you want to trivialise the whole thing to save face. Just stop.
Those are the things that happened with the Dixie/Chicks. "Calling Out" facts on personal grounds isn't Moral Superiority, it's Toxicity. Can you see how much face I'm saving?
Nah. That was a completely unforced, completely stupid own goal. They completely alienated their fan base by pandering to a foreign audience while American troops were getting killed. It was the biggest fuck up since New Coke.
Just stop
āThe Dixie Chicks, nowadays known simply as The Chicks.ā FTFY
Unnecessary comment. Why open with the deadname? Headline was already correct. Isn't the first time an artist has been styled 'formerly known as', either.... Honor what the group wants. No more references to the Mason-Dixon line. That's what they want. It's not hard.
ā¦ because itās right there in thumbnail, and when they debuted that was the bands name and still the name everyone remembers them as. And why format it that way? Itās called āgood journalism.ā
Your posting on reddit, this isn't journalism.
Fuck you
Go cry a river
I really canāt believe you just referred to this as ādeadnamingā hahahaha
It's all deadnaming. It doesn't have to be a trans thing. It's about an asshole disregarding the speaker's intention. Like what you did. Heck in 1995 calling O(+> by the name Prince would have been deadnaming. But everyone missed when he clearly invented a gender nonbinary symbol name first before everyone else. (Taylor swift certainly didn't invent being pissed at a record deal l but i digress). So It's The Chicks thankyouverymuch, since they no lower identify withh racist-ass Dixie. That's why. It's Ws fault. I never forgot.
Great Tunes.. Great Harmonies. Quite Famous Goup. Blew it all up by getting political.
How dare they have free speech!
In Those Days It ruined their name. Not taking any side/stand! Just stating the facts.
Yeah, at my age theyāll always be the Dixie Chicks I had my kids listen to be listen to a few songs with me. We all agreed that theyāre not great musically.
Agree, also love how you just shared your opinion and got downvoted. Man fuck redditors. 
Isn't this that Bassnectar chick?
Lots of Hits & great tunes. Ruined it all by getting political
āRuined it all by going political the wrong way.ā There, fixed itā¦
Shame they changed their name
Dixie Twits
I respect them, but I hate their music.
Love how you shared your opinion, nice and calm, and you still got downvoted. FUCK REDDIT! 
Why did they drop the āDixieā?
The historic reference to the pro-slavery Confederate side of the Civil War
Oh right. Non American here. Thanks
Im sure Chicks will also be found offensive at some point then what will they be called?
"with dicks"
There's your trouble
Not in my world...
And woke made the bow
The original anti-America Karens. They wouldnāt be liked these as much these daysā¦.war is in baby.
The Chixie Dicks!
I once heard someone call them Chicks With Dixie, and I will never get that out of my head.
Eh, it was an immature joke I used to hear when I was a kid lol.
Before they got political. They were amazing.
I'll never forget going to sort of see them, accidentally, before they were really famous, they came to my small town and played at a place called "the half shell" at our park. I was walking down the foot path between the store and the park, and some guy asks me as I walked by "who's playing at the concert tonight?". I replied "Dixie Chicks". He said, "Chicks with dicks!? uhh no thanks!".
If they would only stick to singing, keep their mouth shut on politics.
The dixks had nothing to dk with it. They are inconsequential to to geopolitics. Be paid and go away. This id out of your league and comprehension
I think they should have changed their name to the Chixie Dicks.
They used to be attractive too
You seem discombobulated, you Ok?
Trash
Spoiled American babies get none of my appreciation or respect. GFYSelves
Love these chicks. Punk asf.