Dixie Chicks Recall Death Threat (on 60 minutes this Sunday)

[truthpusher]

http://kdka.com/entertainment/entertainment_story_132005755.html

'You will be shot dead at your show in Dallas' on whatever the date was," she says.

May 12, 2006 12:51 am US/Eastern

Dixie Chicks Recall Death Threat

(CBS News) NEW YORK

(snip)

"There was one specific death threat on Natalie. had a time, had a place, had a weapon. I mean, everything," banjo player Emily Robison recalls. "This was at our show in Dallas. 'You will be shot dead at your show in Dallas' on whatever the date was," she says.

The FBI and the Texas Rangers were brought in, says Maines. "We flew in on a jet … and we went straight from the police cars to the stage and straight from the stage back to the police cars and back to the plane. So, you know, it was all surreal. But at that stage everything was surreal," she remembers.

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In the 60 Minutes segment, the band refuses to apologize to country music fans who were angered by Maines' remarks or to "make nice" to the radio stations that refused to play their music. When asked by Kroft why the band just doesn't try to make country music fans happy, Maines tells him that's not the way the Dixie Chicks work. "We don't make decisions based on that. We don't go, 'OK, our fans are in the red states, so I'm going play a red, white and blue guitar and put on my I Love Bush T-shirt,'" she says. "We’re not like that because we’re not politicians. We’re musicians," Maines tells Kroft.

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link: http://kdka.com/entertainment/entertainment_story_132005755.html

[NVMojo]

1. listen to them here!

http://www.dixiechicks.com/

[BlackVelvetElvis]

2. A Mark Twain quote is always relevant

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
- Notebook, 1904

Mark wrote this out of disgust with the jingoism that was our country during and after the Spanish-American War.
The Dixie Chicks reflect this. They were brave before it was fashionable to be this kind of patriot.

[Ringo84]

3. Re:

A bunch of right-wing bullies. Don't the Dixie Chicks have a right to their opinion?

I read about "Not Ready to Make Nice" in my local paper. I applaud them. They don't NEED to apologize for expressing their opinion. The First Amendment applies to everyone.

I wouldn't apologize either. If you don't like it, fuck off. Who needs ya?
Ringo

[tech3149]

4. Even if you don't like country

listen to the song and read the lyrics. Great stuff from a liberal musician's point ov view.