A candid interview with America's top-selling female band of all time: 'We try to pick our moments really carefully'
The Chicks, the groundbreaking country-music trio formerly known as the Dixie Chicks, have a specific requirement for the members of their new, talent-rich touring band.“No a--holes — and no armpit hair!” added lead singer Natalie Maines, prompting her, Maguire and banjo player and vocalist Emily Strayer to burst into laughter.armpit hair,” Strayer, who is Maguire’s sister, quickly clarified.
Back on the road for the first time in five years to promote their absorbing 2020 album, “Gaslighter,” The Chicks perform July 23 at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre. Their tour continues through Aug. 13, then resumes in late September for three more shows, followed by two October dates at the Austin City Limits Music Festival.
Because they could see and hear one another, in real time, they played off each other throughout the 30-minute conversation. They did so with the same near-telepathic interplay, wit and conviction that characterizes the music they have long made as America’s top-selling female band of all time, in or out of country music.
“I think what I was reacting to back then,” Maguire clarified, “is that I don’t like it when a word becomes polarizing, it kind of hijacks the whole cause. You know, I just watched a documentary about the women who started the first lesbian magazine. And, back then, people were attacking the word ‘lesbian,’ and they were thinking about coming up with another word ...
“And that can be great. But that also can be horrible with how fast misinformation and bad people can join together and create hate. So, yeah, it’s disappointing. I definitely thought we wouldn’t be going backwards.” “So, we individually do what we do, a lot of stuff, that isn’t a ‘Chicks thing.’ Because sometimes attaching your band to it is a little too obvious. ... But, yes, we definitely feel a responsibility to get involved with things that are important to us.”
When Maines, Maguire and Strayer signed a major label deal with Sony/Monument in 1996, they insisted they play their own instruments on their albums, not Nashville session musicians. The group was also adamant about having equal say with producers at Sony/Monument regarding which songs they used on their albums.
“Just so you know,” Maines told the London audience, “we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.” “We are currently in Europe and witnessing a huge anti-American sentiment as a result of the perceived rush to war. While war may remain a viable option, as a mother, I just want to see every possible alternative exhausted before children and American soldiers’ lives are lost. I love my country. I am a proud American.”
The Dixie Chicks sing the national anthem at the start of the 2003 Super Bowl at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego.“The NFL likes to switch up who does the anthem by age, gender, race and things like that,” Maines said in a Union-Tribune interview a week before the big game. “So, it took a while for it to be the year for three White girls singing country music! But we believe everything happens at the right time, and this was always a goal of ours.
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