Have y'all heard...

estranged4life · #1 08-28-2002, 01:39 AM

the Dixie Chicks version of "Landslide" on the radio yet? I know its going to be the next single because theyre already shooting a video for it and the radio stations around here (Remember, I live in a country hotbed for music...lol) are starting to add it to the rotation...Kinda odd to hear a Mac song on a country radio station...But at least it gives Stevie/Mac some exposure to a different market of music fans...Brian J.

Gypsy-Rhiannon · #2 08-28-2002, 02:05 AM

I really like how they do it

Pip

FiercestCalmSea · #3 08-28-2002, 07:58 AM

i really like it..as a matter of fact i like just about all the songs on their new album.

kristin · #4 08-28-2002, 09:54 AM

I like the new album too....how FUNNY is White Trash Wedding!!?? When I heard it for the first time yesturday I couldn't help but crack a smile while driving.....lol. Love those chicks.

Kristin

Grainuaile · #5 08-28-2002, 09:58 AM

I love their version of Landslide!

I love the whole album, actually. I was a little nervous because of the new bluegrass sound, but I like it.

My favourite song on the album is Travelin' Soldier. I cried the first few times I heard it.

estranged4life · #6 08-28-2002, 10:34 AM

to get the album this Friday...I bought the single for "Long Time Gone" at K-Mart for ¢.59!!!!
...lol...Brian

rhiannon1119 · #7 08-28-2002, 12:06 PM

I haven't gotten the new Dixie Chicks album yet, but I really like their version of Landslide.

Michelle

AliP · #8 08-28-2002, 03:59 PM

The other day I was driving flipping the radio stations when I came across the Dixie Chicks. So I thought oh good, I like The Dixie Chicks. Then I realized it was Landslide! Even though I knew they did a cover of it, I just didn't expect to hear it already. It was kewl. I have to go out and buy the album still. For those of you who have it already how does it compare to their previous two?

Grainuaile · #9 08-28-2002, 06:24 PM

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Originally posted by AliP
For those of you who have it already how does it compare to their previous two?

I like it. They have a new sound, so that was kinda weird at first. For me, I just have to listen to it a bit more and get used to that. I'm sure in time I'll love it just as much as WOS and Fly.

Barbara · #10 08-29-2002, 11:44 AM

People gave Home a good review including this:

"Not that this is a clichéd bluegrass project. In fact, the disc is noteworthy for its variety. One of the highlights is the Chicks' introspective version of the 1975 Fleetwood Mac tune "Landslide," complete with Maines's Nicksian vibrato."

B.

Les · #11 08-29-2002, 12:18 PM

EW gave it a glowing review.

Review: Dixie Chicks' 'Home' timeless

By Ken Tucker
Entertainment Weekly

(Entertainment Weekly) -- Despite their girly name, there is a toughness to the Dixie Chicks, an artfully controlled yet implacable firmness, that shows up the bluff braggadocio of -- to name just the most ubiquitous country-music example right now -- the regrettable Toby Keith.

These Chicks countenance no bull. ''Long Time Gone,'' the leadoff track on their new album, ''Home,'' makes punning references to Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, and Hank Williams, but for the Chicks, name-checking old-school country isn't a way to score points with traditionalists or critics -- it's a way of acknowledging that they couldn't pull off their glossy-image, high-tech/down-home synthesis without rooting it in the earthy emotionalism of their forebears. As a result, the deeply exhilarating ''Home'' already has the feel of a timeless recording.

The Chicks have produced a magisterial album that finds singer Natalie Maines, fiddler Martie Maguire, and banjo player Emily Robison working with Maines' pedal steeler dad, Lloyd. Maines' sharp-tongued phrasing and meticulously restrained melisma (''American Idol'' candidates should study her technique immediately) redeem potentially maudlin material like ''Travellin' Soldier'' and ''More Love,'' and lift the quality of two Patty Griffin songs, ''Truth No. 2'' and ''Top of the World,'' in a way their author herself could not. And the Chicks' harmonies on Stevie Nicks' great weepie ''Landslide'' blend to approximate Nicks' own burred, modulated wail -- their pleasure in the song could not come through more vibrantly.

While they throw down fine hoedowns on ''Tortured, Tangled Hearts'' and ''White Trash Wedding,'' their best moments are on ultra-Chick renderings of tracks like Darrell Scott's ''Long Time Gone'' and Maia and Randy Sharp's ''A Home,'' performances that blend country, rock, bluegrass, and pop with a surging power that sweeps you along.

The three Chicks have pulled off something difficult: refined their trademark sound without allowing it to turn into a copyrighted formula. Their ''Home'' sounds like an entire world to be explored.

Grade: A