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After Lady Antebellum, Is It Time for the Dixie Chicks to Rethink Their Name? (Guest Column)
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variety.comJeremy Helligar The Dixie Chicks have a reputation for being one of the most progressive acts in country music. If “Goodbye Earl,” the Texas-bred trio’s 2000 hit about a battered wife who offs her husband by slipping poison into his black-eyed peas, didn’t tip us off, frontwoman Natalie Maines sealed their liberalism — and their fate — after the U.S.
invasion of Iraq in 2003 when she told a London audience, “We’re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas.”With that one sentence, she shattered the group’s good name and hobbled their career, which has never fully recovered, as well.
But about that name… The grand irony of the hoopla that ensued was that as she stood on stage declaring herself a non-fan of George W.
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