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April 21, 2006
Dixie Chicks "Taking The Long Way" Album
The Dixie Chicks "Taking The Long Way" album rides on in May 23, their first release since they met that rather stupid backlash for their comments about President Bush. Hopefully everyone who has since realized they shouldn't have voted for him will buy this album as penance.
Here go the basics from Rolling Stone:
Dixie Chicks "Taking The Long Way"
Nine-time Grammy-winners the Dixie Chicks will release their long-awaited new album, appropriately titled Taking the Long Way, on May 23rd. "It's more of a rock record with country leanings than a country record with rock leanings," says Rick Rubin, who produced the Dixie Chicks' fourth studio album. "The Byrds, Tom Petty: Those are the points of reference."
Rubin met with the Chicks in the summer of 2004; he had seen them perform a concert that he describes as "punk-rock country." When he first met the band, it was moving beyond the fallout over singer Natalie Maines' criticism of President Bush, which resulted in a tide of hatred from country fans. "They had a platform to talk about important stuff," Rubin says. "We talked about personalizing the songs."
Rubin introduced the Dixie Chicks to a team of co-writers that included the Heartbreakers' Mike Campbell. Among the new songs is the likely first single and most provocative, "Not Ready to Make Nice," a plaintive, slow-burning track in which Maines asks, "How in the world can the words that I said/Send somebody over the edge?" Other standouts include "Baby Hold On," an acoustic rocker with John Mayer on guitar, and the roadhouse-style "Lubbock or Leave it..."
Posted by jsmooth995 at April 21, 2006 5:10 AM
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