★★★★★
There's a trend in current pop-culture criticism toward "consumer reviews," which amount to little more than recitations of a few key details and two or three descriptive phrases, often lifted verbatim from a press kit, to give the "average" reader an idea of whether or not he or she might like to spend his or her hard-earned money on the product. No one wants to read analyses of form or content or broader context; they want a star rating that validates their own tastes...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
"The rooster crows, but the hen delivers." That was the DixieChicks' first slogan back in the early '90s ? and it turned outto be a prescient one. Three albums and various personnel changes later, theChicks ? Natalie Maines and sisters Emily Robison and MartieSeidel ? pecked their names into the history books with theirfirst major-label release, Wide Open Spaces...
- ew.com
2011-03-03
★★★★★
It is hypothetically possible, if you close your eyes real tight, to listen to parts of the Dixie Chicks' highly anticipated Taking the Long Way and not think about The Thing. It's feasible, I suppose, to take Natalie Maines' grand, Springsteenian opening verses about burning down the road--"My friends from high school .....
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
It is hypothetically possible, if you close your eyes real tight, to listen to parts of the Dixie Chicks' highly anticipated Taking the Long Way and not think about The Thing. It's feasible, I suppose, to take Natalie Maines' grand, Springsteenian opening verses about burning down the road--"My friends from high school .....
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
It is hypothetically possible, if you close your eyes real tight, to listen to parts of the Dixie Chicks' highly anticipated Taking the Long Way and not think about The Thing. It's feasible, I suppose, to take Natalie Maines' grand, Springsteenian opening verses about burning down the road--"My friends from high school .....
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Okay, the Chicks are already a phenomenon. They are cute and sassy and they can sing some brilliant three-part harmonies. We learned all of this on their first album. But can the Chicks avoid the dreaded sophomore slump that haunts so many artists these days (particularly country artists). Well, the verdict is in. The Chick's second album Fly not only overcomes the sophomore slump; it transcends the country genre to become one of the best pop albums of the year...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
What has it always been about the Dixie Chicks that has made them basically the only country music act that I have ever enjoyed enough to purchase their entire catalog? Oh, I've enjoyed old school talents such as Waylon and Willie and Johnny Cash, certainly, but when it comes to so much of the country music that became popular during my youth and beyond, nothing could really interest my ears. It's that whole Nashville Hollywood sound that has been commented on so many times before...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
A decade ago if someone had told me that the Dixie Chicks would launch their Essential collection with a political and angst-ridden number like the retaliatory George W. Bush song, "Not Ready to Make Nice", then I probably would have chuckled. Alas, they have done so...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Initially regarded as a glammed-up and safe trio of country chanteuses ticking all the right boxes in a homogenised 21st Century Nashville, Dixie Chicks risked career suicide not once, but twice in the space of a few short years. Natalie Maines' 2003 declaration from a London stage that she was "ashamed" to come from the same state as George Bush triggered a backlash among their conservative fanbase, who were then further appalled when the band went "pop" on their next album...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2010-12-21
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