Judging by the response they received at the first of two Chicago concerts from a capacity audience, the Chicks will be clucking all the way to the bank for a few more years, at least. Nary a boo bird or a catcall was heard, and scattered signs of support were in evidence. One handmade poster simply read “1st Amendment.”
Maines mentioned the “incident” only once, as if referring to an indelicate piece of surgery. But there was one bit of Chicks hokum, when the “incident” was linked to the Patty Griffin song “Truth No. 2.” While video footage of civil rights marchers and suffragettes paraded across the screens overhanging the stage, Maines sang, “You don’t like the sound of the truth/Coming from my mouth . . . I don’t think that I’m afraid anymore, say that I would rather die trying.” For the Chicks to equate their public-relations dust-up with the historic fight against discrimination takes the kind of hubris associated with out-of-touch rock stars, not down-home country acts.
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Maines paws the stage like a filly with her black boots, and when she leans into “Long Time Gone” and laments that the music she hears on the radio “ain’t got no soul,” she could use some of her own songs as evidence.