384: The (Dixie) Chicks DEEP DIVE! ft. Joe Peacock: Finding Their Voice, America's Boycott & IG Infidelity

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Take a deep dive into The (Dixie) Chicks, from their Texas beginnings to the moment Natalie Maines said fifteen words that changed everything. Plus, the Sony standoff, that Entertainment Weekly cover, and the Gaslighter divorce lore involving Adrian Pasdar.

(00:00:20) 🎸 Catching up with Joe — why they now say the Chicks and the gaslighter hoodie backstory

(00:03:49) 🎻 How The Chicks Got Started — sisters Emily and Martie and the original lineup with Laura and Robin

(00:08:12) 🎤 Natalie Maines Enters the Picture — how Natalie Maines's father slipped the sisters her demo cassette

(00:12:47) 💿 Debut Album — fighting the label to keep banjo, fiddle, and Wide Open Spaces

(00:16:42) 🤠 Cowboy Take Me Away History — Martie wrote it for Emily's wedding and Taylor Swift's arena tribute

(00:20:12) ⚖️ The Chicks' First Big Road Bump — suing Sony over royalties and archaic six-album recording contracts

(00:24:10) 🏠 The Album "Home" — the rootsy album with Landslide and family-written Travelin' Soldier

(00:30:27) 🌍 The Political Chapter of The Chicks — on tour in London on the eve of the Iraq invasion

(00:32:33) 🔥 The George W. Bush Scandal — the fifteen words about President Bush and the boycott that followed

(00:41:01) 🚨 Their First Post-Cancellation Dallas Show — a death threat, bomb dogs, and flying in and out of Dallas

(00:43:28) 📸 The Entertainment Weekly Cover — posing nude with slurs written across their bodies

(00:46:21) 🏆 Taking The Long Way — Not Ready to Make Nice and the Grammy sweep that followed

(00:53:56) ⏸️ The 14-year Hiatus — fourteen years of side projects and Natalie choosing motherhood

(00:57:14) 💔 Natalie Maines and Adrian Pasdar Divorce — the divorce news that fueled the Gaslighter album

(01:01:00) 🕵️ Adrian Pasdar and Amanda Righetti Romance — Comic Con chemistry and Natalie's winky-face Instagram comments

(01:10:20) 🎶 Gaslighter — the album's reception, the prenup fight, and her son in the band

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