The formerly named Dixie Chicks talk to Laura Barton about why they had to change their name, their new album, Trump, being gaslit, and why they much prefer stockings to tights
Country had been The Chicks’ home ever since they formed in Dallas in 1989, back in an era that now feels “like a different lifetime” to Strayer. Maines had yet to join the band, and the sisters played a bluegrass-country hybrid with two other young women. The name, taken from the Little Feat song “Dixie Chicken”, did not strike them as problematic in those days. It spoke to the “kitschy and cowgirl and western swing” music they played.
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