What She Really Said
If you've been following the Dixie Chicks' saga - and based upon the traffic and comments, in the days just before the war, few were concerned with much else - you know that after Natalie Maines slammed President Bush in...
Posted in Blogcritics on March 21, 2003 10:22 PM

The Power of The Boycott
The figures are in (via Soundbitten). The Dixie Chicks' Home has gone back up to Number 4 in the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart since that remark and remains at Number 1 in the Top Country Albums. All those conservative...
Posted in Blogcritics on March 23, 2003 11:48 PM

The Song Not the Singer
There is an in between: as so many have commented regarding the Dixie Chicks (now over 300 comments), we don't necessarily agree with what Natalie Maines had to say about the president and the war, but she had every right...
Posted in Blogcritics on March 26, 2003 10:31 AM

Younger Cash on Maines
CMU reports: Rosanne Cash, daughter of Johnny and an acclaimed singer songwriter in her own right, has said she has been "astonished and appalled" at the way the American press and country music scene responded to anti-Bush comments made by...
Posted in Blogcritics on March 28, 2003 01:19 PM

Asymmetry: Pearl Jam vs. Dixie Chicks
Pearl Jam speaks out on the impale-Bush-mask-at-concert incident: There were close to 12,000 people at the April 1st Denver show. It's possible two dozen left during encore but it was not noticeable amongst the 11,976 who were loudly applauding and...
Posted in Blogcritics on April 5, 2003 01:48 PM

Springsteen Supports Dixie Dolls
Boss calls anti-Chick campaign "un-American" on his website: The Dixie Chicks have taken a big hit lately for exercising their basic right to express themselves. To me, they're terrific American artists expressing American values by using their American right to...
Posted in Blogcritics on April 22, 2003 12:01 PM

Dixies, Dissent and Dollars
Those who speak loudest reap the biggest cash rewards.
Posted in Blogcritics on April 24, 2003 09:42 AM

Getting Dixie Chicked
I believe in free markets, and entertainers who enter into the realm of politics need to recognize that they are risking the dilution of their entertainment value.
Posted in Blogcritics on April 24, 2003 10:49 PM