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Dixie Chicks Bio
There's old country. There's new
country. Then there are the Dixie Chicks.
Natalie Maines, Martie Seidel and Emily Robison have taken the
Texas-bred sound of a fiddle, banjo, dobro and crystal-clear vocal
harmonies into whole new territory. They are the rare act that comes
along a few times in a generation that is destined to shake things up,
rewrite the rules and become the new musical trendsetters.
The public has certainly noticed. The Dixie Chicks' first Monument album
Wide Open Spaces has become the biggest selling album ever by a country
duo or group - racking up some 6 million sales by the time their second
album, Fly, was completed. The tremendous sales only demonstrates that
while the Dixie Chicks have established themselves as a true country
music act, they have also won over audiences outside the country genre.
In a music field routinely known for selling to the conservative 30 and
over crowd, more than 60% of the Dixie Chicks sales have been to
consumers under the age of 25. Their concert audience is as likely to be
comprised of entire rows of young women in their early teens and
twenties as it is to include middle age couples and entire families
complete with pre-teen girls dressed like their musical idols and
singing every Dixie Chicks' song word for word.
The press has certainly noticed. Publications from Rolling Stone,
Entertainment Weekly and People to Harper's Bazaar, In Style, Seventeen
and TV Guide have documented how the Dixie Chicks are bending the music
world to their will and making country music more 'hip' than ever. With
the wrap-up of 1998, numerous national publications named them the
"Breakout Act of the Year" and recognized Wide Open Spaces as one of the
"Best Of" albums of the year. USA Today credited the Chicks with
single-handedly returning the banjo to country radio and Rolling Stone
summed it up when they called them "the badass queenpins of country." At
a time when much of the press on country music has lamented the
'sameness' of the sound and the artists, no less than the Los Angeles
Times conceded that "the Dixie Chicks are the perfect antidote."
The music industry has certainly noticed. The Dixie Chicks' fellow
musicians and industry peers, in particular, have overwhelmingly
acknowledged their contribution. In a year's time, they have been
honored with two Grammy Awards (Best Country Album and Best Country
Vocal Performance Duo/Group), two Country Music Association Awards
(Group of the Year and the Horizon Award), plus three Academy of Country
Music Awards (including Album of the Year), one American Music Award and
two TNN Music Awards. On Nashville's Music Row, where the unspoken
business strategy often seems to be "if we can make it work once, we can
beat it to death," the music industry has obviously been taking notes.
It's likely not a coincidence that almost every record label in
Nashville has signed a female trio since the Dixie Chicks exploded on to
the scene. But clearly what makes this act work is not just that they
are a female trio. The difference is this: There simply is no other act
in any musical format that sounds like the Dixie Chicks.
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07.28.06
Pepsi Arena
Albany, NY
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07.29.06
TD Banknorth Garden (Fleet Center)
Boston, MA
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08.01.06
Madison Square Garden
New York, NY
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08.02.06
Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Wantagh, NY
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08.04.06
Verizon Center - DC
Washington, DC
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08.13.06
Bradley Center
Milwaukee, WI
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08.15.06
United Center
Chicago, IL
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08.18.06
Target Center
Minneapolis, MN
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08.20.06
Kemper Arena
Kansas City, MO
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08.22.06
Savvis Center
Saint Louis, MO
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08.23.06
Conseco Fieldhouse
Indianapolis, IN
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08.24.06
Wells Fargo Arena
Des Moines, IA
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08.26.06
Fargodome
Fargo, ND
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