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News Round Up: Dixie Chicks Split For New Album

January 14th 2010 in Americana, Bands, Legends, News Round Up, Outlaw, alt.country
  • Sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison (born Erwin) will record an album together without their Dixie Chick partner Natalie Maines. Manine’s father reports that the split is “temporary.”
  • It appears that the appearance at Ft. Worth’s Bass Hall of Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson on February 17th won’t be a solitary outing. The two legends will also appear at in  Houston, TX on Norman, OK on the 6th, Norman, OK on February 18th, Bossier City, LA on the 19th, Robinsonville, MS on the 20th and Chicago, IL on the 21st.

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Dave
wrote on January 31st, 2010

Of the new project Maguire and Robison are working on, Maines says, “It’s old tunes Emily learned when she was a kid and she’s going to do an instructional book along with it.”

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?entry_id=55116#ixzz0eDtXNPot

I read that and said to myself, “Aw, that’s really sweet!”

Those two seem so nice!


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cmreplc
wrote on February 21st, 2010

Who are Court Yard Hounds? 2 Dixie Chicks -check it out below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o166rYH0WWY




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