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(13 customer reviews) 22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Short overview of game-changing country trio's career,
June 1, 2010 hyperbolium (Earth, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Playlist: The Very Best of Dixie Chicks (Audio CD)
Whether or not Natalie Maines' opinions give you heartburn, there's no denying her arrival in the Dixie Chicks launched the group to unparalleled commercial and artistic success. With her lead vocals and her bandmates' harmonies and instrumental chops, the group cut a new template for commercial country radio, finding favor with both the mainstream and traditionalist crowds. All was peaches and cream until Maines' outspoken criticism of the Bush administration placed them at odds with the Nashville establishment and many of the band's fans. But in the face of a country radio backlash, the group stuck to their guns, found favor with the pop buying public, and netted their fourth consecutive country album Grammy - and their first Album of the Year - with the unapologetic Taking the Long Way.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Love it!!!,
July 7, 2010 Cynthia L. Chapman "Monkee fan in Alabama" (Alabama) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Playlist: The Very Best of Dixie Chicks (Audio CD)
I love the Dixe Chicks and it's so nice having all these great songs in one spot. I have thoroughly enjoyed it. It gets me in a great mood on the way to work!
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
A bright, brisk overview of a great country band,
June 1, 2010 DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Playlist: The Very Best of Dixie Chicks (Audio CD)
The Dixie Chicks
"Playlist: The Very Best Of The Dixie Chicks"
(Sony-BMG/Columbia Legacy, 2010)
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This best-of set is about evenly divided between the Chick's "big pop" phase of the late 1990s (mega-hits from albums such as "Wide Open Spaces" and "Fly") and their more acoustic-oriented, expansive post-9/11 sound, when the political backlash from their anti-Bush comments freed them up to pursue another, more diverse audience. With the earlier stuff pared down to the essentials, and the later stuff so damn good, this is a pretty satisfying, high-power set. So, uh... when's the new album coming out? And when are their earliest, pre-Top 40, indie albums going to get the reissue treatment as well? In the meantime, this is a good introduction to the band's best-known work. (DJ Joe Sixpack, Slipcue Guide To Country Music)
