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乡村乐队南方小鸡在舞台上表演
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组合
昵称Dixie Chicks (1989–2020)
音乐类型
出道地点美国得克萨斯州达拉斯
活跃年代1989年至今
唱片公司
网站thechicks.com
相关团体Court Yard Hounds（英语：Court Yard Hounds）
现任成员
已离开成员
「The Chicks」的各地常用譯名
中国大陸南方小鸡
臺灣狄克西女子合唱團
港澳南方小雞

南方小鸡（英語：The Chicks，前称Dixie Chicks），是一支来自德克萨斯州達拉斯的美国乡村音乐乐队。自1995年以来，乐队由娜塔丽·麦恩斯（主唱、吉他）和姐姐玛蒂·马奎尔（英语：Martie Maguire）（主唱、小提琴、曼陀林、吉他）以及艾米丽·斯特雷尔（英语：Emily Strayer）（主唱、吉他、班卓琴、谐振器吉他（英语：Resonator guitar））组成。马奎尔和斯特雷尔（原姓Erwin）于1989年在德克萨斯州達拉斯与贝斯手劳拉·林奇以及主唱兼吉他手罗宾·林恩·梅西创立了该乐队。他们表演藍草音樂和乡村音乐，在蓝草音乐节巡回演出和小型场地进行街头表演，并在六年的时间里巡回演出，但没有吸引到主要唱片公司（英语：Record_label#Major_labels）。1992年梅西离开后，林奇成为主唱。

在1997年与Monument Records（英语：Monument Records）签约并用娜塔丽·麦恩斯取代劳拉·林奇（英语：The Chicks#Band members）后，南方小鸡凭借专辑《Wide Open Spaces（英语：Wide Open Spaces (album)）》和《Fly（英语：Fly (Dixie Chicks album)）》取得了成功。Monument关闭其纳什维尔分店后，南方小鸡因《Home（英语：Home (Dixie Chicks album)）》转入哥伦比亚唱片。这些专辑在美国、加拿大和澳大利亚取得了多倍白金认证，多首单曲还登上了美国Billboard热门乡村歌曲榜。《There's Your Trouble（英语：There's Your Trouble）》、《Wide Open Spaces（英语：Wide Open Spaces (song)）》、《You Were Mine（英语：You Were Mine）》、《Cowboy Take Me Away（英语：Cowboy Take Me Away）》、《Without You（英语：Without You (Dixie Chicks song)）》以及翻唱布鲁斯·罗宾逊（英语：Bruce Robison）的《Travelin' Soldier（英语：Travelin' Soldier）》登上了第一名。南方小鸡还凭借2002年翻唱佛利伍麥克的《Landslide（英语：Landslide (Fleetwood Mac song)）》在成人當代單曲榜上名列第一。

在2003年伊拉克战争开始的前几天，梅因斯对伦敦的听众表示南方小鸡不赞成战争（英语：Dixie Chicks comments on George W. Bush），并为美国总统乔治·沃克·布什来自得克萨斯州而感到羞耻。这番话引发了美国国内的抵制和歌迷的反弹。经过一段时间的休整，迪克西小鸡乐队于2006年发行了《Taking the Long Way（英语：Taking the Long Way）》专辑，这张专辑就是在这次反弹的影响下发行的。其中《Not Ready to Make Nice（英语：Not Ready to Make Nice）》成为她们最大的跨界单曲，在美国公告牌百强单曲榜上排名第四。马奎尔和斯特雷尔于2009年以Court Yard Hounds（英语：Court Yard Hounds）的名义发行了一张专辑。2010年代，迪克西小鸡乐队再次聚首巡演。2020年，由于“Dixie”的负面含义，她们将“Dixie”从名字中删除，并发行了14年来的首张专辑《Gaslighter（英语：Gaslighter (album)）》。

南方小鸡共获得过13项葛萊美獎，其中包括2007年凭借《Taking the Long Way》获得格莱美奖年度专辑的五项大奖，以及获得格莱美奖年度制作和格莱美奖年度歌曲的单曲《Not Ready to Make Nice（英语：Not Ready to Make Nice）》。截至2020年7月，南方小鸡已售出3300万张认证专辑[2]，在美国的专辑销量为2790万张，成为Luminate自1991年开始记录销量以来最畅销的全女子乐队和最畅销的乡村音乐组合[3][4][5]。

演艺历程[编辑]

1989–1995：最初的“蓝草”组合[编辑]

南方小鸡成立于1989年，当时名为Dixie Chicks，成员包括立式低音提琴乐手劳拉·林奇、吉他手罗宾·林恩·梅西以及多乐器演奏姐妹玛蒂·马奎尔（英语：Martie Maguire）和艾米丽·斯特雷尔（英语：Emily Strayer）。两姐妹后来结婚，并两次改名（玛蒂改名为Martie Seidel，后又改名为Martie Maguire；艾米丽改名为Emily Robison，后又改名为Emily Strayer）。乐队的名字取自Little Feat（英语：Little Feat）乐队中罗威尔·乔治（英语：Lowell George）的专辑《Dixie Chicken（英语：Dixie Chicken）》[6]。

1990年，参议员约翰·塔尔（英语：John Tower）的女儿佩妮·库克为南方小鸡提供了1万美元，以让她们录制一张专辑。她们的第一张录音室专辑《Thank Heavens for Dale Evans（英语：Thank Heavens for Dale Evans）》以表演先锋戴尔·伊万斯（英语：Dale Evans）命名[7]。她们为这张14轨的专辑支付了5000美元[8]。其中包括两首器乐曲。1987年，马奎尔（当时仍名为玛蒂·埃尔文）在堪薩斯州温菲尔德核桃谷音乐节（英语：Walnut Valley Festival）举行的全国小提琴锦标赛中获得第二名，1989年获得第三名[9]。

乐队于年底发行了一张圣诞单曲——一张名为《Home on the Radar Range》的45转黑膠唱片，正面的歌曲名为“Christmas Swing”，反面名为“The Flip Side”。唱片名称意义重大；在那段时间里，乐队成员装扮成“女牛仔”，宣传照片也反映了这一形象。然而，即使在Grand Ole Opry（英语：Grand Ole Opry）剧院[10]和加里森·基洛（英语：Garrison Keillor）的電台廣播节目《A Prairie Home Companion（英语：A Prairie Home Companion）》[11]中亮相。

南方小鸡开始建立自己的粉丝群，在1990年的Telluride蓝草音乐节（英语：Telluride Bluegrass Festival）上赢得了“最佳乐队”奖，并为知名乡村音乐艺人担任开场嘉宾，包括加斯·布鲁克斯、瑞芭·麦肯泰尔和喬治·史崔特。[8]

1992年，乐队发行了第二张独立专辑《Little Ol' Cowgirl（英语：Little Ol' Cowgirl）》，这张专辑转向了更为现代的乡村音乐，乐队请来了更多的临时伴奏乐手（英语：Session musician），用更大更现代的编曲发展出了更丰富的声音。罗宾·林恩·梅西对声音的变化并不满意。1992年底，她离开乐队并投身于“更纯粹”的蓝草音乐，并继续活跃在达拉斯和奥斯汀的音乐舞台上[12]。在此期间，专业钢棒吉他手劳埃德·梅因斯（英语：Lloyd Maines）（曾在两张专辑中都有过演奏）将他们介绍给了自己的女儿娜塔莉，她是一位有抱负的歌手。劳埃德-梅因斯认为自己的女儿很适合接替离去的梅西，并将娜塔莉的试唱样带传给了马奎尔和斯特雷尔，该样带曾为她赢得了伯克利音樂學院的全额奖学金[13]。1992年，《华盛顿邮报》在评论他们在弗吉尼亚州的桦树音乐大厅（英语：The Birchmere）的演出时写道：“唱片公司的高管们很快就会自责……这些小鸡们具备了大红大紫的条件，但却没有一家大唱片公司冒险与他们签约”[14]。

林奇成为南方小鸡第三张专辑《Shouldn't a Told You That（英语：Shouldn't a Told You That）》（1993年）的主唱。她们仍然无法吸引主要唱片公司（英语：Record_label#Major_labels）的支持，也很难将歌迷群体扩展到得克萨斯州和纳什维尔以外的地方。他们的新任经理西蒙·伦肖找到了公司高管斯科特·西曼（英语：Scott Siman），斯科特·西曼与索尼音乐娱乐公司纳什维尔分部签订了一份发展合约。1995年年中，他们与索尼敲定了合约[15]，林奇的位置由梅恩斯取代[16] 。

关于林奇离开的说法不一。在那时，林奇姐妹说她已经考虑离开一年多了，因为她厌倦了巡演，希望有更多的时间陪伴女儿[15]。林奇提出留下来参加新专辑的首次录音，但姐妹俩认为这样做会给索尼公司传递错误的信息；她们一致同意她在新专辑发行前离开[15]。在1996年的一次采访中，林奇说到：“这不能说是辞职。南方小鸡有三个人，而我只是其中之一。”[17]2003年，林奇表示她不后悔离开[18]。

1995-2000：凭借《Wide Open Spaces》和《Fly》获得商业成功[编辑]

1998年，南方小鸡在弗吉尼亚州斯塔福德举行的乡村儿童音乐会上

梅因斯加入乐队后，乐队的乐器阵容基本保持不变，但梅因斯并不是原声贝司手。相反，她在演唱会上弹木吉他和电吉他，偶尔也弹电贝司或帕布斯吉他（英语：Tacoma_Guitars#Papoose）。她担任主唱，马奎尔和斯特雷尔担任伴唱。现在，斯特雷尔为乐队的声音做出了贡献，在她精通五弦班卓琴（英语：Banjo#Five-string_banjo）和共鸣器吉他（英语：Resonator guitar）的基础上，又加入了吉他、手风琴、锡塔琴和帕帕鲁斯琴；而马奎尔则开始在她擅长的小提琴演奏基础上，更频繁地加入吉他、中提琴和曼陀林演奏。姐妹俩对这种变化表示欢迎；马奎尔说：“这首歌很有根基，但娜塔莉又加入了摇滚和藍調的元素。这给了艾米丽和我一个拓展的机会，因为我们喜欢这些类型的音乐，但又觉得受到乐器的限制。”[19]

在接下来的一年里，索尼来到奥斯汀看望了改头换面的南方小鸡，并承诺与她们签订长期合约，她们也被选为新成立的Monument唱片公司（英语：Monument Records）的第一组新艺人。单曲《I Can Love You Better（英语：I Can Love You Better）》于1997年10月发行，进入美国乡村音乐排行榜前十名。《Wide Open Spaces（英语：Wide Open Spaces (album)）》于1998年1月23日发行[20]。

在一年的时间里，《Wide Open Spaces》中的三首单曲都登上了乡村音乐排行榜的首位：《There's Your Trouble（英语：There's Your Trouble）》、《You Were Mine（英语：You Were Mine）》和同名单曲（英语：Wide Open Spaces (song)）。这张专辑在他们原有的粉丝基础上增加了更多的听众，在乡村音乐和流行音乐排行榜上都进入了前五名[21]，仅在乡村音乐领域的初始销量就达到了1200万张，创造了乡村音乐史上最畅销的二人或组合专辑的纪录[1]。截至2003年，《Wide Open Spaces》在美国售出的1200万张专辑使其成为RIAA认证的钻石专辑[22]。

1998年，南方小鸡的CD销量超过了所有其他乡村音乐组合的总和[23][24]。大型乡村音乐组织注意到了南方小鸡，并于1998年将“地平线奖”（Horizon Award）颁给了那些“在整体排行榜和销售活动、现场表演专业性和评论媒体认可度方面表现出最显著的创造性增长和发展”的新艺人[25][26]。到1999年，这张专辑为新阵容赢得了第一个葛萊美獎以及乡村音乐协会（英语：Country Music Association）、乡村音乐学院（英语：Academy of Country Music）和其他高知名度奖项的赞誉。

1999年8月31日，南方小鸡发行了另一张专辑《Fly（英语：Fly (Dixie Chicks album)）》，该专辑首次亮相就荣登Billboard 200榜首，销量超过1,000万张，使南方小鸡成为唯一一支乡村乐队，也是唯一一支拥有两张连续获得RIAA认证钻石专辑的女性乐队[20]。《Fly》共发行了九张单曲，包括乡村音乐冠军《Cowboy Take Me Away（英语：Cowboy Take Me Away）》和《Without You（英语：Without You (Dixie Chicks song)）》。南方小鸡的专辑在发行后的半个多世纪里一直名列美国历史上最畅销的50张专辑排行榜（英语：List of best-selling albums in the United States）[27]。《Fly》再次获得格莱美奖以及乡村音乐协会和乡村音乐学院颁发的荣誉，南方小鸡也因其成就获得了其他方面的多项荣誉[28]。乐队在其首次巡演Fly Tour（英语：Fly Tour）中担任主演，乔·伊利（英语：Joe Ely）和瑞奇·斯卡格斯（英语：Ricky Skaggs）等特邀艺术家在每场演出中亮相[29]，还与萨拉·麦克拉克伦、雪瑞兒·可洛和其他女艺术家一起参加了全女性巡演Lilith音乐节（英语：Lilith Fair）[30]。

南方小鸡在这一时期取得商业成功的原因是多方面的：她们创作或与人合作创作了《Wide Open Spaces》和《Fly》中大约一半的歌曲；她们混合了蓝草、主流乡村音乐、藍調和流行歌曲的风格吸引了众多唱片购买者，而且她们曾经与林奇一起装扮成“牛仔女郎”，使得她们的着装更加现代[1]。


"Cowboy Take Me Away" from Fly became another signature song, written by Maguire to celebrate her sister's romance with country singer Charlie Robison, whom Emily subsequently married, exchanging her surname for Robison. However, a few of their songs brought controversy within their conservative country music fan base, and two songs caused some radio stations to remove the Dixie Chicks from their playlists: "Sin Wagon", from which the term "mattress dancing" takes on a new twist, and "Goodbye Earl", a song that uses black comedy in telling the story of the unabashed murderer of an abusive husband. (The band later made a video portraying the nefarious deed, with actor Dennis Franz playing the murdered husband.) In an interview, Maines commented about Sony worrying about the reference to "mattress dancing" in "Sin Wagon", refusing to discuss it in interviews. She said, "Our manager jokes, 'You can't say mattress dancing, but they love the song about premeditated first degree murder'! She continues, " ... so it's funny to us that "mattress dancing" is out and murder is in!"[31]

2001–2002: Record label dispute and Home[编辑]

After the commercial success of their first two albums, the band became involved in a dispute with their record label, Sony, regarding accounting procedures, alleging that in at least 30 cases Sony had used fraudulent accounting practices, underpaying them at least $4 million (£2.7m) in royalties on their albums over the previous three years.[32] Sony held out, and the trio walked away, with Sony suing the group for failure to complete their contract.[33] The Dixie Chicks responded with their own $4.1-million lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment on August 27,[34] which added clout to claims made by singers Courtney Love, Aimee Mann, and LeAnn Rimes against the recording industry.[35] After months of negotiation, the Dixie Chicks settled their suit privately, and were awarded their own record label imprint, Open Wide Records, which afforded them more control, a better contract, and an increase in royalty payments, with Sony still responsible for marketing and distribution of albums.[23][36]

During the time that they worked with Sony to reconcile their differences, the Dixie Chicks debuted their quiet, unadorned song "I Believe in Love" on the America: A Tribute to Heroes telethon following the September 11, 2001 attacks. The three women found themselves home, in Texas, each happily married, planning families, and writing songs closer to their roots, without the usual pressures of the studio technicians from the major labels. The songs they didn't write were solicited from songwriters who wrote with a less commercial emphasis.[37] The result was that Home, independently produced by Lloyd Maines and the Dixie Chicks, was released August 27, 2002.[20]

Unlike the Dixie Chicks' two previous records, Home is dominated by up-tempo bluegrass and pensive ballads; and Emmylou Harris added her vocals to "Godspeed". In addition, the text of the opening track and first single, "Long Time Gone", was a pointed criticism of contemporary country music radio, accusing it of ignoring the soul of the genre as exemplified by Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, and Hank Williams. "Long Time Gone" became the Dixie Chicks' first Top 10 hit on the U.S. pop singles chart and peaked at No. 2 on the country chart, becoming a major success. Approximately six million copies of Home were sold in the United States.[38]

Home also won Grammy awards, and other noteworthy accolades as before, though it fell short of reaching the diamond record status of the first two albums. Natalie Maines said afterward, "I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together."[39]

By 2002, the Dixie Chicks were featured on three television specials: An Evening with the Dixie Chicks, which was an acoustic concert primarily composed of the material from Home; VH1 Divas Las Vegas alongside Cher, Céline Dion, Shakira, Anastacia, Stevie Nicks, Mary J. Blige, Cyndi Lauper, Whitney Houston and host Ellen DeGeneres; and a CMT three-hour television special, the 40 Greatest Women of Country Music. Ranked No. 13 out of 40, they were "selected by hundreds of artists, music historians, music journalists and music industry professionals—looking at every aspect of what a great artist is".[40]

2003–2005: Comments on George W. Bush and backlash[编辑]

主条目：Dixie Chicks comments on George W. Bush

On March 10, 2003, the Dixie Chicks performed at the Shepherd's Bush Empire theater in London, England.[41] Maines told the audience the band did not support the imminent Allied invasion of Iraq and were ashamed that President George W. Bush was from Texas.[42] Maines's remark triggered a backlash in the United States.[42] The Dixie Chicks were blacklisted by thousands of country radio stations,[43] and the band members received death threats.[44] Maines issued an apology, saying her remark had been disrespectful; in 2006 she rescinded the apology, saying she felt Bush deserved no respect.[43] Their single "Landslide", a Fleetwood Mac cover, fell from number 10 to 43 on the Billboard Hot 100 in one week and left the chart a week later.[45] The backlash also damaged sales of their next album and tour.[46]

The Dixie Chicks performing at Madison Square Garden on June 20, 2003, during the Top of the World Tour

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita battered the Gulf Coast, with the group's home state of Texas directly in the wake of the disaster. In September, the Dixie Chicks debuted their song "I Hope" in the Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast telethon. The song was one of only two performed at the concert that was not donated for the subsequent DVD. The Dixie Chicks made their new single available as a download with proceeds to benefit hurricane relief through Habitat For Humanity and the American Federation of Musicians Gulf Coast Relief Fund.[47][48][49]

In October 2004, the Dixie Chicks joined the Vote for Change tour, performing in concerts organized by MoveOn.org in swing states, raising funds for political groups opposing Bush.[50] In 2005, Maguire, Strayer, and Maines joined with 31 other recording artists, including Dolly Parton, Christina Aguilera, Yoko Ono, and Mandy Moore supporting relationships of all kinds, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, on a two-disc release titled Love Rocks, with their song from the album Home called "I Believe in Love".[51]

2006–2007: Taking the Long Way and Shut Up and Sing[编辑]

On March 16, 2006, the Dixie Chicks released the single "Not Ready to Make Nice" in advance of their upcoming album. Cowritten with Dan Wilson, it addressed the political controversy that had surrounded the group for the previous three years.[52] Strayer said, "The stakes were definitely higher on that song. We knew it was special because it was so autobiographical, and we had to get it right. And once we had that song done, it freed us up to do the rest of the album without that burden." She said writing the song had become their "therapy", since they had to hold in so many stored emotions for so long. Thus, the band considered the album not so much political as very personal.[53] 

Taking the Long Way was released in stores and online on May 22, 2006. The album was produced by Rick Rubin who had worked with hard rock acts such as Red Hot Chili Peppers and System of a Down, as well as idiosyncratic singers such as Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond. The band felt they had nothing to lose by a newer approach, and possibly quite a bit to gain.[54] All 14 tracks were co-written by the three Chicks, alongside various other songwriters, including Neil Finn of Crowded House. The album contains references to the 2003 controversy.[55] Taking the Long Way debuted at number one on both the U.S. pop albums chart and the U.S. country albums chart, selling 526,000 copies in the first week (the year's second-best such total for any country act) and making it a gold record within its first week. The Dixie Chicks became the first female band in chart history to have three albums debut at No. 1.[56]

Both "Not Ready to Make Nice" and second single "Everybody Knows" were largely ignored by U.S. country radio[57] and failed to penetrate the top 35 of the Hot Country Songs chart. In June 2006, Emily Strayer noted the lack of support from other country music performers: "A lot of artists cashed in on being against what we said or what we stood for because that was promoting their career, which was a horrible thing to do. ... A lot of pandering started going on, and you'd see soldiers and the American flag in every video. It became a sickening display of ultra-patriotism."[57]

Maines said, "The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country ... I don't see why people care about patriotism."[57] In Europe, however, the two singles were well received by country radio, peaking at Nos. 13 and 11 respectively and remaining on the European Country Charts for more than 20 weeks each.[58]

The Accidents & Accusations Tour began in July 2006. Ticket sales were strong in Canada and in some Northeastern markets, but notably weak in other areas. A number of shows were canceled or relocated to smaller venues due to poor sales, and in Houston, Texas, tickets never even went on sale when local radio stations refused to accept advertising for the event.[59] In August, a re-routed tour schedule was scheduled with a greater emphasis on Canadian dates, where Taking the Long Way had gone five-times-platinum. As part of the tour, the Dixie Chicks became the first major band to hire a designated blogger "all-access" to keep up with them in their promotional activities and tour.[60]During the tour, the group members generally refrained from any explicit verbal political comments. When the Dixie Chicks performed again at Shepherd's Bush Empire, site of "The Incident", Maines joked that she wanted to say something the audience had not heard before, but instead said, "Just so y'all know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas," to much laughter and applause.[61]

In 2006, Taking the Long Way was the ninth-best-selling album in the United States. At the 49th Grammy Awards Show on February 11, 2007, the group won all five categories for which they were nominated, including the top awards of Song of the Year and Record of the Year, both for "Not Ready to Make Nice", and Album of the Year, for Taking the Long Way. Maines interpreted the wins as being a show of public support for their advocacy of free speech.[62] It had been 14 years since an artist had swept those three awards.[63]

After the Grammys, Taking the Long Way hit No. 8 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the country album charts and "Not Ready to Make Nice" re-entered the charts at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The music video for "Not Ready to Make Nice" was nominated for the 2007 CMT Music Video Awards in the categories of Video of the Year and Group Video of the Year.[64] The group was nominated for the 2007 Country Music Association's award for Top Vocal Group, but lost to Rascal Flatts.[65]

At the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, Cabin Creek Films, the production company of documentarian Barbara Kopple, premiered Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing.[66] The documentary follows the Dixie Chicks over the three years since the 2003 London concert remark and covers aspects of their musical and personal lives in addition to the controversy.[67]

An ad for Shut Up and Sing was turned down by NBC on October 27, 2006, because of a policy barring ads dealing with "public controversy". Ads were rebuffed by the CW as well, but local affiliate stations of all five major broadcasters, including NBC and CW, ran promotional spots for the film in New York and Los Angeles, the two cities where it opened that day.[68] The film's distributor Harvey Weinstein said, "It's a sad commentary about the level of fear in our society that a movie about a group of courageous entertainers who were blacklisted for exercising their right of free speech is now itself being blacklisted by corporate America."[68]

2008–2014: Hiatus, Court Yard Hounds and continued touring[编辑]

At a December 2007 rally in Little Rock, Arkansas, Maines expressed support for the West Memphis Three, three men convicted of a 1993 triple murder who many believe innocent.[69] Maines cited a recent defense filing implicating Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of one of the victims, and posted similar comments in a letter on the Dixie Chicks' web site.[69] In November 2008, Hobbs sued Maines and the Dixie Chicks for defamation as a result of her statements.[70] On December 2, 2009, a U.S. federal judge dismissed the defamation case on the grounds that Hobbs had not shown the statements were made with actual malice.[71] A proposed April 2008 commercial spot to promote Al Gore's "We Campaign" involving both the Dixie Chicks and Toby Keith was eventually abandoned because of scheduling conflicts.[72]

In January 2010, Maguire and Strayer released new music without Maines[73] as a duo known as Court Yard Hounds.[74] Lloyd Maines, Natalie's father, said that the trio were "definitely still an entity".[73] The Court Yard Hounds released their first album in May 2010, with Strayer on lead vocals.[74] Beginning on June 8, 2010, the Dixie Chicks joined the Eagles on their stadium-based Eagles 2010 Summer Tour,[75]

The Dixie Chicks appeared in the 2010 music documentary Sounds Like a Revolution about protest music in America. They sang "You" on the March 2011 release of Rare Bird Alert, a Steve Martin bluegrass album, accompanied by the Steep Canyon Rangers.[76] In March 2011, Maines made a solo recording of the Beach Boys hit "God Only Knows" for the final episode of the HBO series Big Love.[77] In July 2011, Strayer and Maguire said that new music involving Maines is in the works.[78] In October 2011, the Dixie Chicks played the Concert for Wildfire Relief in Austin, Texas. During the set, Maines stated that there was "zero hesitation" when the group was asked to do the show.[79]

In December 2012, the Dixie Chicks replaced Lady Antebellum as headliners' at Canada's Craven Country Jamboree in July 2013.[80] In July they also performed at the Ottawa Bluesfest and the Cavendish Beach Music Festival and in October 2013 on the Scotiabank Saddledome.[81] In July 2013, the Court Yard Hounds also released their second album, Amelita. From October 2013 to March 2014, the Dixie Chicks went on their first full-length tour since 2007, the Long Time Gone Tour through various cities across Canada in 2013. The tour incorporated the C2C: Country to Country festival held in London and Dublin during March 2014.[82]

2016–present: MMXVI World Tour, name change and Gaslighter[编辑]

In June 2015, a European tour was scheduled to commence in Antwerp on April 16, 2016; the DCX MMXVI World Tour initially included dates for Switzerland, The Netherlands, Scandinavia, the UK and Ireland, however in November 2015, the tour was extended into North America, with over forty shows scheduled across the United States and Canada.[83] The tour was extended to Australia and New Zealand, and was followed by a live album and video, DCX MMXVI Live.[84]

On the 50th anniversary of the Country Music Association Awards on November 2, 2016, the Dixie Chicks performed alongside Beyoncé on her song "Daddy Lessons". A studio version of the performance was released to digital outlets the following day.[85] They also collaborated with Taylor Swift on her song "Soon You'll Get Better" from Swift's 2019 album Lover.[86] On May 3, 2018, the Dixie Chicks' manager, Simon Renshaw, retired after having managed them since 1995. They signed with Ian Montone and Rick Yorn at Monotone/LBI Entertainment.[87]

On June 25, 2020, the band changed their name to the Chicks, dropping the word "Dixie".[88] The change followed criticism that the word had connotations of slavery in the United States.[89][90][a] The band said they had picked "that stupid name" as teenagers, and had wanted to change it for years. They decided to change it when they saw the Confederate flag described as "the Dixie Swastika" on social media in June 2020.[91] They were also inspired by the George Floyd protests and the Black Lives Matter movement, saying it "definitely lit a fire in us to be on the right side of history".[88] They received the blessing of the Chicks, a New Zealand duo, to share the name.[89][92] Alongside the name change, the Chicks released the protest song "March March" with a music video directed by Seanne Farmer, in tribute to social justice movements.[89] They also introduced John Silva as their new manager,[93] with publicity by Cindi Berger of R&CPMK.[94]

On July 17, 2020, the Chicks released their first album in 14 years, Gaslighter, produced by Jack Antonoff.[95] The first single, "Gaslighter", was released on March 4.[96] On August 20, the Chicks performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.[97] On December 22, 2023, Laura Lynch, a member of the Dixie Chicks until 1993, died in a traffic collision near El Paso, Texas, at the age of 65.[98] The Chicks issued a statement saying Lynch was "a bright light" whose "undeniable talents helped propel us beyond busking on street corners to stages all across Texas and the mid-West".[98]

Band members[编辑]

The Dixie Chicks in 2006. From left: Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer

Members

Former members

  • Laura Lynch – lead vocals, harmony and backing vocals, bass (1989–1995; died 2023)[99][100]
  • Robin Lynn Macy – lead vocals, harmony and backing vocals, guitar (1989–1992)

Timeline[编辑]

Discography[编辑]

主条目：The Chicks discography

Studio albums

Tours[编辑]

Set list from the Top of the World Tour: Madison Square Garden, June 20, 2003.

Headlining

Supporting

Co-headlining

Residencies

  • 2023: The Chicks: Six Nights in Vegas

Awards and nominations[编辑]

主条目：List of awards and nominations received by the Chicks

See also[编辑]

Notes[编辑]

  1. ^ The origin of the word "Dixie" is obscure, see Dixie#Origin of the name.

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Further reading[编辑]

  • Dickerson, James L. (2000). Dixie Chicks: Down-Home and Backstage. Taylor Trade Publishing. ISBN 0-87833-189-1.

External links[编辑]

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