Dixie Chicks: Taking the Long Way
CML call number: CD/COUNTRY/Dixie
Jon Pareles wrote in the New York Times: "'Taking the Long Way' … is the first Dixie Chicks album on which group members collaborated in writing all the songs. The first single, 'Not Ready to Make Nice,' declares, 'I'm not ready to back down/ I'm still mad as hell,' and starts with a tolling guitar more suitable for a Metallica dirge than a honky-tonk serenade. … [T]he album wraps gleaming California rock around its raw emotions. Although there's plenty of country in the music, 'Taking the Long Way' reaches not for the lucrative yet insular country airwaves but for an adult pop mainstream. … The album is a defiant autobiography of their career, and 'Not Ready to Make Nice' mentions the death threats after the Incident [i.e., lead singer Natalie Maines's disparaging onstage remark about George W. Bush in 2003]. But until it does, the song could be about the resentment following any breakup or betrayal. 'Lubbock or Leave It,' a fierce country-rocker, describes Ms. Maines's Texas hometown as a hypocritical 'fool's paradise' with 'more churches than trees.' … [T]he songs work as meticulous pop vows of loyalty and determination" (5/21/06).
Jon Pareles wrote in the New York Times: "'Taking the Long Way' … is the first Dixie Chicks album on which group members collaborated in writing all the songs. The first single, 'Not Ready to Make Nice,' declares, 'I'm not ready to back down/ I'm still mad as hell,' and starts with a tolling guitar more suitable for a Metallica dirge than a honky-tonk serenade. … [T]he album wraps gleaming California rock around its raw emotions. Although there's plenty of country in the music, 'Taking the Long Way' reaches not for the lucrative yet insular country airwaves but for an adult pop mainstream. … The album is a defiant autobiography of their career, and 'Not Ready to Make Nice' mentions the death threats after the Incident [i.e., lead singer Natalie Maines's disparaging onstage remark about George W. Bush in 2003]. But until it does, the song could be about the resentment following any breakup or betrayal. 'Lubbock or Leave It,' a fierce country-rocker, describes Ms. Maines's Texas hometown as a hypocritical 'fool's paradise' with 'more churches than trees.' … [T]he songs work as meticulous pop vows of loyalty and determination" (5/21/06).
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