Dixie Chicks songs (Music Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 29. Chapters: Bring It On Home to Me, Cold Day in July, Cowboy Take Me Away, Everybody Knows (Dixie Chicks song), Goodbye Earl, If I Fall You're Going Down with Me, I Can Love You Better, I Hope, I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart, Landslide (song), Long Time Gone, Lullaby of Broadway (song), Merry Christmas from the Family, Mississippi (Bob Dylan song), Not Ready to Make Nice, Ready to Run (song), Roly Poly (song), Sing (Joe Raposo song), Some Days You Gotta Dance, Stand by Your Man, Strong Enough (Sheryl Crow song), There's Your Trouble, The Long Way Around, Tonight the Heartache's on Me, Top of the World (Dixie Chicks song), Travelin' Soldier, Wide Open Spaces (song), Without You (Dixie Chicks song), You Can't Hurry Love, You Were Mine. Excerpt: "Not Ready to Make Nice" is a country pop song co-written and performed by the American all-female band Dixie Chicks for their seventh studio album Taking the Long Way (2006). The song was released as the first physical single from the album in June 2006. It remains the Chicks's biggest hit in the US to date. On February 11, 2007, it won three Grammy Awards in the categories of Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. In 2009, Rolling Stone named "Not Ready to Make Nice" the 77th best song of the decade. Controversy erupted over the Dixie Chicks in 2003 following a critical comment vocalist Natalie Maines made of the American President George W. Bush while performing in a concert in London, United Kingdom. Taking the Long Way was the first studio album released by the Dixie Chicks after that. The controversy, and the band's reaction to it, is the major theme of some of the songs in the album, including "Not Ready to Make Nice". The song, which was written by all three band members (Maines, Emily Robison and Martie Maguire) along with Dan Wilson, is a statement of how they feel over the controversy, the banning of their songs from country music radio stations, and freedom of speech. The band went on to the October 25 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show to promote the documentary film Shut Up and Sing and the music video of the song was quickly shown. While interviewing the band, Winfrey said the song is so well written that someone cannot even tell if it concerns the controversy. Indeed, Maines said that she and the other songwriters wanted the song to have a universal interpretation. However, the final lines of the fourth verse are unequivocally about the death threats the band received during the 2003 Top of the World Tour: "And how in the worldCan the words that I saidSend somebody so over the edgeThat they'd write me a letterSaying that I better shut up and singOr my life will be over."Some other lines in the