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When Dixie Chicks sisters -- fiddler Martie Maguire and guitarist/banjoist Emily Robison -- recorded their first album together without lead vocalist Natalie Maines, they re-named themselves Court Yard Hounds (a reference to the best-selling novel, 'City of Thieves')...

Tim McGraw, the Dixie Chicks, Jon Bon Jovi and Sheryl Crow are among the artists whose music is featured on the just-released soundtrack compilation, 'By the People: For the People,' inspired by the film, 'By the People: The Election of Barack Obama...

Two of the Dixie Chicks have recorded an album, but without lead vocalist Natalie Maines. CMT reports that sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire, co-founders of the Chicks, are planning to release a new album on Columbia Records. All three Chicks spent the holidays at the home of Natalie's father, Lloyd Maines, who co-produced their 2002 album, 'Home...

The lawsuit against the Dixie Chicks, filed by the stepfather of one of three 8-year-old boys killed in Arkansas 15 years ago, has been thrown out. According to the Associated Press, a federal judge ruled that a statement the Chicks' lead singer Natalie Maines made in regard to the deaths noted in legal documents were believed to be true at the time that she made them...

Larry Knechtel, a one-time collaborator of Elvis Presley's and an accomplished sideman in both the rock and country worlds, died Thursday, Aug. 20 at the age of 69. Knechtel, who won a 1970 Grammy award for his arrangement of Simon and Garfunkel's enduring 'Bridge Over Troubled Water,' succumbed to an apparent heart attack, according to a report by his local newspaper, the Yakima Herald Republic..

Songs may be a dime a dozen, but hit songs are hard to come by. Still, some of country music's biggest gems go a long time before seeing the light of day. Take, for instance, the 2005 CMA Song of the Year, 'Whiskey Lullaby' – co-written by Jon Randall and Country Music Hall of Famer "Whisperin'" Bill Anderson. "The ...

The trio now fronted by Natalie Maines was once a quartet, founded by sisters Martie and Emily Erwin with Laura Lynch and Robin Lynn Macy, who shared lead vocals. The Texas natives got their name from the song 'Dixie Chicken' by the rock band Little Feat...

A defamation suit against the Dixie Chicks has been moved to federal court. Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of one of three 8-year-old Arkansas boys killed 15 years ago, filed suit against the band in an Arkansas circuit court last year. His claims stem from statements made by lead singer Natalie Maines at a 2007 rally for the three men convicted of the killings...

Dixie Chicks' lead singer Natalie Maines is being sued for defamation over statements she allegedly made about Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of one of three eight-year-old boys murdered in West Memphis, Ark., in 1993 -- an incident made famous by the 1996 acclaimed documentary 'Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills...

In commemoration of World AIDS Day (December 1), the Dixie Chicks have contributed a new song, 'Lucky Ones,' to a new digital music magazine called RED(Wire). It's the trio's first release since winning five Grammys in 2007. A $5 subscription allows users to receive a new issue of the magazine every Wednesday, with either an exclusive song from a major artist, a song from a new artist, or a multim