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* 1972 – Emily Robison, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ( Dixie Chicks and Court Yard Hounds )
Subsequently the Dixie Chicks made it a mainstay of their Top of the World, Vote for Change, and Accidents & Accusations Tours.
The two-and-a-half hour set included some new tracks, including " Silent House " co-written by Finn with the Dixie Chicks.
* 1974 – Natalie Maines, American musician ( Dixie Chicks )
For example, the intense backlash against country band the Dixie Chicks, for remarks critical of President George W. Bush onstage in London in 2003, was described by newspaper columnist Don Williams as the price for freely speaking political views disapproved by supporters of the Iraq War.
The record featured Crow singing many of her hit singles with new musical spins and guest appearances by many other musicians including Sarah McLachlan, Stevie Nicks, the Dixie Chicks, Keith Richards, and Eric Clapton.
Sebastian Steinberg has recorded and / or toured with David Byrne, Dixie Chicks, Neil Finn, Phil Selway, William Shatner, Lisa Germano, Beth Orton, and Yerba Buena.
** Emily Robison, American country music performer ( Dixie Chicks )
Many celebrities-among them Courtney Love, Michelle Branch, Belinda Carlisle, the Dixie Chicks, Mary J. Blige, Sheryl Crow, Nadia Ali, Florence Welch, Taylor Swift, Laura Branigan, Sarah McLachlan, Kelly Clarkson, Vanessa Carlton, Georgi Cussick, Tori Amos, Michelle Hotaling, Jennifer Hanson, Ruston Taylor, and Delta Goodrem-have cited Nicks as an inspiration.
She has participated in duets or provided guest vocals for several of their albums and some have returned the favour, notably Crow and the Dixie Chicks.
The Dixie Chicks ' cover of Nicks's 1975 song " Landslide " also earned her a BMI Songwriters Award in 2003 when it won " Song of the Year " ( the award is given to the songwriter of the track, regardless of the performer ).
Included on the Dixie Chicks ' platinum Monument album Home, " Landslide " was a Country, Adult Top 40, Hot 100 and AC Billboard charts smash.
However, the song writers were the performers, so that the recipients were the same in only 16 cases ( Domenico Modugno, Paul Simon, Christopher Cross, Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie, Billy Joel, Bobby McFerrin, Natalie Cole, Eric Clapton, Seal, Shawn Colvin & John Leventhal, James Horner, U2, the Dixie Chicks, Amy Winehouse, Coldplay, Lady Antebellum, and Adele ).
The day after receiving the honor, she appeared at the Grammy Awards ceremony and introduced a performance by the Dixie Chicks.
In recent decades, the Opry has hosted such contemporary country stars as Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, Josh Turner, Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts and the Dixie Chicks.
Other top concerts at the Garden have included The Village People ( 1975 ), Duran Duran ( 1985 ), Phil Collins ( 1985 ), Peter Gabriel ( 1986 ), Luther Vandross ( 1991 ), Celine Dion ( 1998 ) and Dixie Chicks ( 2003 ).
2000 ASCAP Songwriter of the Year Darrell Scott, who has written hit songs for the Dixie Chicks, Travis Tritt, Brad Paisley, Patty Loveless, and many others, was born in London.
The Dixie Chicks release Taking the Long Way has a song co-written with Finn, entitled " Silent House ".
Past artists and bands include Survivor ( band ), Dixie Chicks, Night Ranger, Josh Gracin, Blake Shelton, Blue Öyster Cult, and Collective Soul.
* Laura Lynch, member of the original Dixie Chicks
In a skit on the May 20, 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live, Neil Young ( played by Kevin Spacey ) was joined by Dixie Chicks and " indie sensation Bright Eyes " ( played by Andy Samberg ), all of whom have been public in their criticism of George W. Bush.
The Dixie Chicks paid tribute by recording Darrell Scott's song " Long Time Gone ", which criticizes Nashville trends: " We listen to the radio to hear what's cookin ’/ But the music ain't got no soul / Now they sound tired but they don ’ t sound Haggard ," with the following lines mentioning Johnny Cash and Hank Williams in the same vein.
Celine Dion then sang " God Bless America ", and later the Dixie Chicks sang the national anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ".
* The Dixie Chicks Top Of The World Tour used a circular stage, except in venues where it was an end stage.

Dixie and covered
George Thorogood & the Destroyers covered " Dixie Fried " on their 1985 album, Maverick.
" Strawberry Fields Forever " has also been covered by Trey Anastasio, The Bee Gees, The Bobs, Justin Currie, Noel Gallagher, Richie Havens, David Lanz, Cyndi Lauper, Eugene Chadbourne, Campfire Girls, Hayseed Dixie, Laurence Juber, Zlatko Manojlović, Marilyn Manson, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Peter Gabriel, Plastic Penny, Mother's Finest, Odetta, Andy Partridge, The Residents, Miguel Ríos, The Runaways, The Shadows, Gwen Stefani, Tomorrow, Transatlantic, The Ventures, Cassandra Wilson, XTC, and Ultraviolet Sound.
Known for her stripped-down songwriting style centered around the folk music genre, her songs have been covered by a host of musicians including Emmylou Harris, Ellis Paul, Rory Block, and the Dixie Chicks.
Griffin re-recorded songs from that album for later releases such as " Making Pies ", " Mother of God ," " Standing ," and " Top of the World " and others have been most famously covered by the Dixie Chicks.
* Lady Florence Dixie ( 1855 – 1905 ); covered the First Boer War
Phillips was covered by the Dixie Hummingbirds, an A Capella rendition featured in Vol.
Phillips was covered by the Dixie Hummingbirds, an A Capella rendition featured in Vol.
Hayseed Dixie covered " To Fulle Menn " (" Two drunk men "), a song written by Jokke.
Artists who have covered " Rainbow Connection " include Judy Collins, The Carpenters, Sarah McLachlan, DAT Politics, Aaron Lewis, Kenny Loggins, The Dixie Chicks, Justin Timberlake, Kris Aquino, Kiki and Herb, Jason Mraz, The Pussycat Dolls, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Tay Zonday, Jim Brickman, Caroline's Spine, Estradasphere, Leftöver Crack ( with dramatically different lyrics ), The Dresden Dolls, Willie Nelson ( who is quite often incorrectly credited with penning the song ), Peter Cincotti, Jane Monheit, pop-punk band Fifteen, Lea Salonga, Andy Bernard ( played by Ed Helms ) in The Office, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, The Loves, Israel Kamakawiwo ' ole and Trespassers William.
They also covered Eyehategod's Dixie Whiskey for the Century Media 20th Anniversary cover album.

Dixie and her
She raced around Hazzard with her cousins, first in a yellow and black 1974 Plymouth Road Runner ( later on it was a Plymouth Satellite ) and then, from the mid-second season, in her trademark white 1980 Jeep CJ-7 christened " Dixie " with a Golden Eagle emblem on the hood ( and the name " Dixie " on the hood sides ).
She delivered them one last success with the gold-selling album Blessed Are ... ( 1971 ) which spawned a top-ten hit in Robbie Robertson's " The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down ", her cover of The Band's signature song.
Dixie Kong can use her hair to glide in the air over long distances, which also proves to be advantageous to the player in some levels.
Dixie Kong makes her first appearance in this game in the succession of the Donkey Kong franchise.
In the game Dixie Kong and her toddler cousin Kiddy Kong have to discover the location of missing vacationers Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong, who went on a fishing trip.
Kiddy also has a few new moves previously unseen in the series-he is able to repeatedly bounce along the surface of water during a roll by pressing the jump button with the correct timing, and he is able to throw Dixie significantly farther when he is carrying her on his shoulders than any other Kong family member combination.
She says she based her portrayal of the character on Dixie Carter, adding, " Were she still alive, the role would have been hers and should have been.
Kelly Rutherford's portrayal of Dixie Cousins, with her emphasis on innuendo and subtext, has been described as " less Miss Kitty ( Gunsmoke ) than Mae West ".
Rutherford said that playing Dixie allowed her to fulfill her " fantasy of being Madeline Kahn in Blazing Saddles.
Having found the drugs and with the pimp dead, Murtaugh assumes the case is now closed, but Riggs finds it suspicious that the only witness to Amanda's suicide was a prostitute named Dixie ( Lycia Naff ), who was working away from her usual " stroll ".
They deduce that Dixie poisoned Amanda and then posed as a witness to cover her crime.
The novel was filmed in 1943 as Lady of Burlesque, directed by William Wellman, starring Barbara Stanwyck as " Dixie Daisy " ( the Lee character ), Michael O ' Shea as her romantic interest, and Pinky Lee, among many notable supporting players.
Her rousing rendition of Judy Garland's " Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody " earned her a call back by club owner Rick Newman, who would become her manager.
During her tenure in the Senate, three other women-Rose McConnell Long, Dixie Bibb Graves, and Gladys Pyle-held brief tenures of two years or less in the Senate, but none of them overlapped, and so there were never more than two women in the body.
Elizabeth Windsor, and her husband Dixie Hickman, and assumed the additional surname of Windsor.
Willing to cross the line between sacred and secular by performing her inspirational music of ' light ' in the ' darkness ' of the nightclubs and concert halls with big bands behind her, Tharpe's witty, idiosyncratic style also left a lasting mark on more conventional gospel artists, such as Ira Tucker, Sr., of the Dixie Hummingbirds.

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