"The
rock stars of country" have their roots in
Texas. The name Dixie Chicks is borrowed from a song by the blues-rock band Little Feat.
They have earned Grammys for Best Country Album and Best Country Vocal Performance by a Group; Academy of Country
Music Awards for Album of the Year, Top Vocal Group, and Top New Vocal Group; and an American
Music Award for favorite New Country Artist. On top of that, the Country
Music Association presented the Dixie Chicks with a Horizon Award, and the band was also named Vocal Group of The Year as well. More recently, the CMA nominated the group for Entertainer of the Year.
Unfortunately, no
one thinks about this. Lead singer Natalie Maines made a comment regarding President
Bush, and the backlash was astonishing. It ranged from applause and claims that they were practicing free speech to death threats and crushing of albums.
In spite of this, their recent album is already a bestseller, and their fame seems only to have grown.
The
Dixie Chicks are talented, and they worked hard to get where they are, but everything they
ever did was rendered meaningless when
one member said fifteen words.