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Visit The Official Dixie Chicks Website NEW DIXIE CHICKS RECORDING, "I HOPE," AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL DOWNLOAD NOW All Proceeds To Benefit Hurricane Relief Efforts Open Wide/Monument/Columbia Records have released "I Hope," a new recording by the Dixie Chicks, as an exclusive digital download benefiting Hurricane relief efforts . "I Hope" will be available online at Sony Connect, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, SonyMusicStore.com, iTunes, MSN, and Napster. Co-written by the Dixie Chicks and contemporary blues master Keb' Mo', "I Hope" was performed September 9 on the multi-network telethon "Shelter From The Storm: A Concert For The Gulf Coast." Produced by Rick Rubin and the Dixie Chicks, the exclusive download version was recorded the night before the telethon and showcases Natalie Maines (vocals), Martie Maguire (vocals), and Emily Robison (electric guitar/vocals) accompanied by Mike Campbell (electric guitar) and Benmont Tench (keyboards) along with pedal steel guitar virtuoso Robert Randolph, Jonny Polonsky (acoustic guitar), bassist Justin Meldal-Johnsen, and drummer Michael Bland.
Dixie Chicks and Sony BMG Music Entertainment will donate all of their proceeds from the sale of "I Hope" to Habitat For Humanity and the American Federation of Musicians Gulf Coast Relief Fund, in support of the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
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Top of the World Tour Live In Stores Now!
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Shortly after the Dixie Chicks announced the group's "Top Of The World" tour at a press conference in New York on February 20, 2003, the buzz was on. The group rapidly sold more than 1 million tickets for the 66 North American shows on the "Top Of The World" itinerary, with 51 shows selling out completely on the first day of sales. In fact, first day's sales for the "Top Of The World" tour--some 867,000 tickets--were the largest in music history, eclipsing records set by Madonna, U2, the Rolling Stones, the Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, and Paul McCartney.
Along the "Top Of The World" tour route, the Dixie Chicks were met by cheering fans and a fervent press. "....when the Dixie Chicks step onstage," wrote Dave Ferman while reviewing a Dallas performance for the Star-Telegram, "all is right with their world -- and with their fans'....They received a fitting welcome from a sold-out American Airlines crowd -- which is to say, the all-ages/more-women-than-men audience went crazy from the beginning of the first song, Goodbye Earl, and hardly let up all night."
"Maverick defiance has always been the best part of the Dixie Chicks' appeal, along with the determination to hold onto something down-home as they reach for a mass audience," wrote Jon Pareles in a New York Times review of the Chicks' Madison Square Garden performance. "Ms. Maines makes her voice leap and break in honky-tonk style, and the other two Dixie Chicks are not only singers but something rare among country hitmakers, female instrumentalists. Martie Maguire's fiddle and Emily Robison's banjo put a bluegrass streak into the band's arrangements, one reason they have been able to conquer the country mainstream without succumbing to it formulas."
Michael Eck, reviewing an Albany, New York show for the Times Union, put it succinctly, "....the Chicks have changed the face of country music of late; and the women have done it by playing music of great melody, integrity and attitude."
Top of the World Tour Live
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An Evening With The Dixie Chicks DVD is in stores now!
An Evening With The Dixie Chicks DVD features a full show - seven additional songs
which didn't air on the NBC special!
Order your copy online! New Dixie Chicks album "HOME" is in stores now. Preview Dixie Chicks new album - HOME Track #2: Landslide Track #3: Travelin' Soldier Track #4: Truth No.2 Track #5: White Trash Wedding Track #6: A Home Track #7: More Love Track #8: I Believe In Love Track #9: Tortured, Tangled Hearts Track #10: Lil' Jack Slade Track #11: Godspeed Track #12: Top Of The World |
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