Two months after the Grammy blah blah hoopla crap, relistening to the last Dixie Chicks album, Taking the Long Way, you gotta admit this is a great album. One the best made by the mainstream these days: love, politics, home, protest, great musicianship, song writing, and arrangments. I laugh, I cry, I bellow (er, sing.)
I watched them at the Grammies and thought they weren't ready for all the hoopla, and so didn't do themselves justice. And they clearly thought it was political only, the reasons that they won. It was political of course, a great big mea culpa pretending that sexism in the industry is non-existant and they didn't have to stand up for themselves through music and movies. They had to fight back hard, and they won. I just hope the music stands on its own and they and everyone else get it as a whole: they deserved the win for the music as well as for the fight back.
Art and politics and women's lives...
ya, sometimes it comes together...
(now on to Indigo Girls - more southern women doin' more than kickin' the dirt...sing it Amy and Emily!... (album: Become You))
Tamara
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