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Dixie Chicks Album Hit The Controversy
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The Dixie Chicks been the biggest-selling female band in music history–return with their hugely anticipated fourth album. Most people expect this record to be another blockbuster, perhaps even surpassing the band’s last multi-platinum outing, 2002’s “Home.” With the new Dixie Chicks album set to hit store shelves on Tuesday, the song “Lubbock Or Leave It” has already hit the Hub City airwaves.
The nine-time Grammy-winning act is trying something new with “Taking the Long Way.” For the first time, each track on this album was co-written by the Dixie Chicks themselves.

The song “Lubbock or Leave it” is fast paced and upbeat. Some listeners may not like what the lyrics say, while others won’t get the chance to even hear it. Most Lubbock country stations are still not playing their music.
Country Radio station 99.5 The Bear is the only station playing the song in Lubbock. Radio personalities, Jane Prince-Jones and Rick Gilbert say for the most part, people want to hear it so they are playing it. “We don’t like to sensor things around here and there has been a lot of publicity with this song. Everybody heard the lyrics read the lyrics, now let’s hear what the song sounds like,” said Rick

Produced by the legendary Rick Rubin, whose credits range from Run DMC and the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond, the album finds the Chicks venturing still farther west from their Nashville roots — all the way to the coast. ‘‘My friends from x high school/ married their high school boyfriends/ Moved into houses in the same ZIP code where their parents live/ But I could never follow,’’ Maines sings on the opening track, ‘‘The Long Way Around.’’ It’s a loping, wind-in-your-hair track that marks the distance between the Chicks’ trad-cowgirl beginnings and the sun-kissed SoCal vibe that colors their seventh studio collection.

Back in 2003, Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines created an uproar when she told a London concert audience, “Just so you know, we’re ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas.” In a new interview with Time magazine, posted online Sunday, the Dixie Chicks firebrand takes back the apology she extended to President Bush three years ago.
Follow-up statement is referred to as Maines’ one regret from an incident, known by the group as “The Incident,” that provoked death threats, a cold shoulder from some fans and boos from the Academy of Country Music Awards crowd. The Dixie Chicks firebrand takes back the apology she extended to President Bush three years ago.
“I apologized for disrespecting the office of the President,” Maines says in Time. “But I don’t feel that way anymore. I don’t feel he is owed any respect whatsoever.”

Censored or not, everyone is talking about the Dixie Chicks. They`ve appeared on multiple news programs, including “60 Minutes”. They`re even on the cover of this week`s issue of Time magazine. “So many calls and with the controversy and Lubbock ties, that’s probably why we have so many copies coming in. We’re ready to get them out there,” said Dominique Ramirez, Hastings Music Associate.
“Taking the Long Way” will debut at No. 1 and become another breakout moment for the Chicks, who should solidify some new audience. But I also have no doubt that this won’t sell as many copies as its predecessors. That’s what comes with being uncompromising: smaller returns, dismayed fans, greater self-satisfaction.

After a decade together and more than 20 million albums sold, the Chicks have earned the right to be called Dixie Women. All are married with children – Maines, 31, is mom to sons Jackson, 5, and Beckett, 22 months, with actor husband Adrian Pasdar; Maguire, 36, and husband Gareth have 2-year-old twins Kathleen and Eva; and Robison, 33, and husband Charlie are parents to Charles, 3, and 1-year-old twins Henry and Julianna.

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