The All-Inclusive Dixie Chicks Page
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Who are the Dixie Chicks? Insightfully perceptive radicals? Or just local girls who made good? This site is about the local girls who took their dream and ran with it to become a defining force in country music.

The Dixie Chicks' career started long before 2003, when lead singer Natalie Maines' onstage quip redefined the band. It started before 1998, when a song about personal independence called "Wide Open Spaces" redefined Country Music. Long before then, the Dixie Chicks were local favorites in their home base of Dallas, Texas, working the honky tonk and high school cafeteria circuit. This site is dedicated to that early phase of their career, when the Dixie Chicks were a band with a lot of promise... and a long road ahead.

Dixie Chicks Version 1.0

1990 - 1997: A group of four talented singers and instrumentalists peforms on a busy street corner in Dallas, Texas. They call themselves the "Dixie Chicks", a delightfully whimsical name to match their frilly cowgirl look, but their music is the real thing. Combining Western and Bluegrass, the group hits the local clubs, then hits the road.

Highlights:

• Timeline, including News Articles and Links
• Discography - before they hit big: Thank Heavens for Dale Evans, Little Ol' Cowgirl, and Shouldn't A Told You That
• The Chick Chat Archive
• Personal Stories from the days when you could see the Dixie Chicks for free!
• Pictures, including Suzanne's Dixie Chicks Scrapbook
• History of this site, including a mirror of the very first Dixie Chicks website

Dixie Chicks Version 2.0

1998 - 2002: The cowgirl look is gone, along with two of the original members -- replaced by firebrand Natalie Maines. Local reviewers dismiss the group's first major-label release, but the breakout success of Wide Open Spaces puts the Dixie Chicks squarely on the national map. The follow-up album, Fly, cements their place in Country Music history, and gives them the clout to successfully fight their label for creative control. The next album, Home, is a return to their roots, and scores a critical, musical, and financial success. They begin a sold-out arena tour. And then, something strange happens at a small venue outside of London.

Highlights:

• Timeline, including News Articles and Links
• Discography - from Wide Open Spaces through Fly and Home (well, I'll get Home posted eventually...)
• Personal Stories from larger and larger venues
• The Cease and Desist letter that (inadvertently) put this site on the map!

Dixie Chicks Version 3.0

2003 - present: "The Incident" takes the focus off the music entirely. The Dixie Chicks become a strawman in a fight over a nation's foreign policy. Not willing to capitulate to their opponents, the Chicks jump into the fray... with mixed results. After a successful tour and live album, the members turn inward, growing their families and writing songs about the experience. Three years later, they release an album whose lead single says "I'm not ready to make nice... I'm not ready to back down."

Highlights:

• Commentary from the webmaster
• Links to sites that follow the Chicks' continuing history
• ... all that and more coming soon, in the finest Internet "under construction" tradition!

Mirror sites

The Dixie Chicks have crossed paths with some of the best musicians in the Country, Western, and Bluegrass genres.  Unfortunately, not all of the artists they've encountered have had the same long-lasting success.  The All-Inclusive Dixie Chicks Page is proud to host the mirror sites for several now-defunct web sites, as a way to preserve the history of the group, and of the musical scene it came from and continues to shape.

• The original Dixie Chicks official site, rescued from the "Trash" folder!
• The Groobees were the first to record Susan Gibson's Wide Open Spaces, the song that cemented the Dixie Chicks' place in Country Music history.  The group broke up a few albums later, but the lead singers, Susan Gibson (susansongs.com) and Scott Melott (now with the band Dead End Angels), have gone on to make their mark on the growing Texas Music scene.  See the mirror of groobees.com.
• Robin Macy's musical career has continued, but Bluegrass music is a labor of love, and her band Big Twang wasn't able to stay together despite the amazing musicianship of their debut album, Pastures of Plenty.   See the mirror of bigtwang.com.
• The entity known as "Rockzilla" (or more simply as "Michael Johnson" to his creditors) played a significant role in the careers of many Texas artists, and helped popularize the term "Our Kind Of Music" (or "OKOM").  His site includes interviews with many of the rising stars of Texas Music from the early 2000's... artists who would one day follow the path trod by an unknown girl group from Dallas in the early 1990's.  The All-Inclusive Dixie Chicks Page is proud to host the officially sanctioned mirror of Rockzillaworld!

Um, did I miss anything?

This "new and improved" home page for the site is a work in progress.  If you're looking for something you used to link to from here, the old home page is available here.

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Disclaimers

This page is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by the Dixie Chicks, or by any of their present or past members. It is the original creation of Robert Brooks (dc at dixie dash chicks dot com), who is solely responsible for its content. The official Dixie Chicks web site can be found at dixiechicks.com.

All original material is (c) 1998-2006 by Robert Brooks. Unless otherwise noted, all other images have been lifted from various company and fan sites, with attribution in the img tag.

Site Created: 08/19/1998
Last Update: 07/16/2006 (Long overdue update)
Previous Updates: Nothing significant since 10/04/2001! Ouch!
http://www.dixie-chicks.com/
Even more outdated Mirror Site: http://rbrooks.tripod.com/

Original Site (now dead): http://www.dallas.net/~totoro/dixiechicks/

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9/7/00: 100,000 hits
Sometime in 2006: 1,000,000 hits!
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