The Dixie Chicks are no more. Breaking their ties to the South, The Chicks are stepping into a new chapter in their storied career with their first new music in 14 years.
The Texas trio of Emily Strayer, Martie Maguire and Natalie Maines have been teasing new music for a year, and "Gaslighter" finally drops on July 17 when the nation is embroiled in divisive politics, cancel culture and reckoning with inequality. The timing is right for their voices to be heard again.
As the bestselling female group in RIAA history, The Chicks appealed to generation of country fans that saw themselves in the band's stories, whether it was "Wide Open Spaces" or "Cowboy Take Me Away." After three independent albums, their first major label record in 1998 sold 13 million copies in the U.S. alone.
"I was putting off showing them because I have one that's 11 and I just thought she was a little young," Maguire said. "I thought she might be upset by just the death threat stuff." "We were all at March for Our Lives with Emma Gonzalez leading that charge," said Strayer. "We were in the hundreds of thousands of people in that march. And it's the first time I've ever experienced something like that. And it was very powerful."
Hit pop songwriter Justin Tranter, who has penned hits for Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez and Imagine Dragons, helped The Chicks co-write some of the album's most raw, vulnerable breakup songs, including "Sleep at Night." Their last album, 2006's "Taking the Long Way," earned five Grammys, including album, record and song of the year, and won over masses of fans who never listened to them before. But it's unlikely the fans who turned their back on The Chicks 17 years ago are going to feel any different about the band's return.
"When you invite knowing that she's going to bring that elevation to the show and those eyeballs and then you diss her like that, it's twisting the knife," said Strayer.
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