Thu, 18 Mar 2010
Eagles, Dixie Chicks, Keith Urban to Tour Together
This tour marks the first time the Chicks have toured since 2006
While the Chicks are still on hiatus, sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison have formed a new band, the Court Yard Hounds, and are readying their first album, a self-titled disc, for release on May 4.
The Eagles tour also marks the first time in four years that the Chicks will perform live together. Martie Maguire, Emily Robison and Natalie Maines have been on a touring hiatus since the shows supporting their Grammy-sweeping 2006 album, 'Taking the Long Way.'
"We really are just doing it for fun," Emily explains to The Boot. "The opportunity arose, and all three of us were really into it. The thought of being able to open up shows for the Eagles in stadiums, it's something we haven't been able to do yet in our own career -- have venues that large."
Emily and Martie, of course, haven't been on a total musical hiatus. This Eagles tour comes at an opportune time for the sisters, who will release their debut album as a duo, the Court Yard Hounds, in May.
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Dixie Chicks Side Project Whips Up a Hard-Hitting Gay Song
May 4 release of the self-titled album by their side project Court Yard Hounds, which includes a tune entitled "Ain't No Son."
The ditty opens with a bluegrass intro, and a teenager about to make a nervous confession to his folks. But this is no "I'm Coming Out" for the Nashville set. The hard-stomping tune that follows is told from the POV of his father... and he is pissed. The repeated damnations of "you ain't no son of mine" and "boys should be boys" don't make for a sympathetic narrator (unless you're a bigoted good old boy), but they certainly evoke the powerful, ugly emotions some parents express when the closet door is flung open -- and while the lyric isn't explicitly queer, Robison recently told CMT she was inspired by a TV program about gay teens whose parents kick them out of the home.
That would be the Keith Urban married to Nicole Kidman?
“Do you think it was inappropriate for Nicole Kidman to do a nude bathtub scene with a 12-year old boy in her movie ‘Birth’?”
YES, it is more than inappropriate!!!
Court Yard Hounds that the new twosome.
Inspired to right lyrics from a reality tv show.
Wow that is inperation we can all admire. Not!
Sounds like the Court Yard hounds aint gonna hunt like the Dixie Withes didnt take flight.