known as the Dixie Chicks, lit a forest fire with an offhand insult about George W. Bush in 2003. Since then, she’s owned her political words more deliberately by laying into Donald Trump on social media, not onstage.
But listening to her now, all you can think is: Man … they got off easy. Because on the newly renamed Chicks’ first album in 14 years, Maines savages her ex in ways that make it seem as if she were mincing words or pulling punches back when she was taking on mere presidents.
She’s got your civil war right here: “Gaslighter” might count as the boldest and most bracing entry ever in popular music’s long and storied history of divorce albums.When the collection’s title was first announced, some fans mindful of Maines’ political.
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