Dixie Chicks - Country Music
Combine bluegrass, pop, rock, and country music with a distinctive attitude and you get a group called Dixie Chicks. The female trio consisting of sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire, and joined by feisty Natalie Maines have earned numerous awards as well as criticism for their brashness and unwillingness to be bound by social guidelines. Natalie's super strong vocals are highlighted by Emily and Marties' harmonies, which sing against a background of banjo, fiddle and dobro.
This unique combination was introduced in 1998 with their debut CD, Wide Open Spaces, which earned the Chicks a Grammy for Country Album of the Year. In 1999, they followed with the album, Fly, which earned them yet another Grammy and Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year award. reaped an even greater harvest of honors, including more Grammys and the Country Music Association's marquee award, Entertainer of the Year.
When the trio reaches a particular milestone in their music, they have small chicken feet tattooed onto their own feet to mark the event. Number one hits "Cowboy Take Me Away", "Goodbye Earl", "Wide Open Spaces" and "There's Your Trouble" are just a few of the tattoo-earning milestones to date. Vocalizing very strong opinions about politics and other country artists, the trio began to lose the support of the country music industry. In 1993, they made an announcement, which was later retracted, that they no longer felt that country music was their home and would pursue a career in rock and roll.