Dixie Chicks Biography

Biography

Summer Lights Festival. However, all the accomplishment apparently could not prevent Laura to keep staying in the line-up as she too walked out from the group by 1995, the same year Dixie Chicks secured a lavish recording deal with Sony Music's newly-revived Monument Records. Attempting to find her replacement, a former student from the prestigious Berklee College of Music named Natalie Louise Maines (born on October 14, 1974 in Lubbock, Texas) was finally picked up and so making the troupe become a trio ever since.

Joined forces together, the three members of Dixie Chicks then persistently poured their skills to work on their first major album which was materialized in “Wide Open Spaces” released by January 1998. Featuring Emily on banjo, dobro, and guitar also Martie on fiddle and mandolin, the record instantly soared to the first rank of the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart besides spawned three #1 Hot Country Singles and Tracks songs namely “You Were Mine”, “Wide Open Spaces”, plus “There's Your Trouble.” The latter tune even won the group the Grammy Award for Best Country Performances by a Duo or Group with Vocal category in 1999 while "Wide Open Spaces" itself was named Best Country Album. ...

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Subsequently certified six-times Platinum by July of the same year, the LP certainly propelled the trio to the widespread recognition around the States as a new sensation in country music, giving them enough confidence to try hitting the market once again with their sophomore effort, "Fly", on August 31, 1999.

As expected, the result of “Fly” was tremendously fantastic for not only it was able to secure the first position on The Billboard 200 but also created a new record for being the album gaining most week at number one on Billboard Top Country Albums in mid 2000, thanks to its massive hits of “Cowboy Take Me Away”, “Ready to Run”, and “Without You.” Already contributed 2 more Grammy Awards to the group, this piece of work thereby solidified Dixie Chicks' position in the country music scene, leading them to gloriously top the 2000 Billboard Year-End Charts as the Top Country Artist - Group/Duo, Top Country Album Artist Top Country Artists, plus the Top Country Album Artist - Group/Duo. The success wonderfully still continued in 2002 when they came up with “Home”, their third LP which fabulously topped 3 Billboard charts of The Billboard 200, Top Country Albums, and Top ...