(Dixie) Chicks' triumphant Bonnaroo debut

[Tanuki]

https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/bonnaroo/2022/06/17/bonnaroo-2022-chicks-debut-festival-highlight-review/7649487001/

"Who would have that thought back in 2002 – the year Bonnaroo began as a underground jam band festival – that the biggest band in mainstream country music (then known as The Dixie Chicks) would one day find themselves to be the undisputed queens of The Farm?
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...the three women who were blacklisted overnight by the country world for criticizing the Iraq War, only to double down on speaking their mind, and earn their own devoted audience as a result.
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They opened with the bluegrass barn-burner “Sin Wagon,” with frontwoman Natalie Maines belting as fiercely as she did back in 1999. Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire trailed close behind with blazing banjo and fiddle solos, as the band’s charging rhythm soundtracked the many young women (and men) sprinting to get a closer spot on the field.

The Chicks followed up with “Gaslighter” – the title track of their 2020 album, which was their first in 14 years. It contains some of their most bluntly progressive material yet, and was helmed by modern pop super-producer Jack Antonoff (who coincidentally was performing at the exact same time across the field). Still, it was the vintage material that really lit up this millennial/Gen. Z-heavy crowd: cuts like “Wide Open Spaces,” “Ready to Run” and “Cowboy Take Me Away.”.
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To be fair, The Chicks of the 2020s are still connecting, whether their message is unmistakably personal (“And you can tell the girl who left her tights on my boat/ That she can have you now,” Maines sang on “Tights On My Boat”) or social. Cheers would rise from the field as the video screens behind them displayed the names of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others, or showed images of protest signs with the message “My Body, My Choice.”
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[wcmagumba]

1. Love The Chicks...

One of the founding members who left the group before their fame lives a short distance from me and sometimes performs (singing) at a small local venue she and hubby administer...Great voice and they have national and regional folk, bluegrass, jazz and other perform at the location, a beautiful arboretum...

[Docreed2003]

2. From the footage I saw they were incredible!

So glad to see them out touring

[Initech]

3. The same ones who rail about "cancel culture" canceled the Dixie Chicks and Colin Kaepernick.

[JanMichael]

4. That is nice to hear. Thanks.