Posted on 06/07/2006 12:11:31 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Dixie's Click on WUMB : As mentioned here in the last update, although local and national country radio stations may not be helping them much lately, but that isn't stopping Dixie Chicks from claiming a third # 1 album in their career and finding stations on the elsewhere on the dial who are more than happy to jump on the bandwagon. According WUMB 91.9FM's program director Brian Quinn, the UMass station is playing "Everybody Knows" and "I Hope" tracks. The station also hopes to have them live in the studio when their tour pulls into Boston in late July. Clear Channel's progressive talker WKOX AM 1200 is also promoting the TD Banknorth Garden show by the most successful female group ever with a ticket giveaway.
Not... going... to... go... for... obvious... cheap... shot!!!
Not gonna do it!!!
Sing it, Brother! You got that one right!
Grabbing onto college stations and Air America is not going to get them out of this hole.
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But they can alway open for Spinal Tap.
In the 70's, we considered Springsteen to be the "common man's Bob Dylan". He sang about racing in the streets and love problems and working a ham-and-egg job. Then he became a pretty boy with muscles and showed everyone his ass in tight jeans. His music became popish and he married a trophy. Then he decided he was politically relevant and began writing songs that sounded like they were plagarized from DNC faxes to newsrooms.
Apartheid is gone and he won't play Sun City now either. Go figure.
His old stuff still rocks though.
Poor man wanna be rich
Rich man wanna be king
And a king ain't satisfied til he rules everything
I wanna go out tonight
I wanna find out what I got.
Man that was good music for cruising the Blue Ridge Parkway on the way home from work
It burns me up that they'll make lots of money by playing to anti-American sentiment across the globe. I'm not surprised, though.
BTW, I saw a bit of the Chicks' new music video on CMT this morning. I suppose I'll have to be letting those folks, and their commercial sponsors, that I'll henceforth be avoiding their programming like the plague.
Talk Radio is playing their songs? Damn.. That's desperate.
It is unusual for Amazon to sell at 1/2 of retail for a brand new CD. They were last week.
Savvis Center
Postponed
DIXIE CHICKS
"THE ACCIDENTS & ACCUSATIONS TOUR"
Due to the overwhelming demand for the Dixie Chicks in Canada, England and Australia, this concert date must be rerouted and the on-sale will be postponed until the fall. Check back to the Savvis Center website for more information as it becomes available.
Not to nitpick, but there are TWO types of "good singers". One is the Natalie Maines, belt it out (although she's too nasal) lead singer, and the other is the kind of singer that has such control over their pitch they can sing in perfect harmony every time. I do believe the sisters fall under that category.
I'm a little biased, because I am primarily a harmony singer.
The delays are taking place in many markets where tickets haven't gone on sale yet. The promoters are going to lose big money if they don't downsize to smaller venues.
Hey, you'll get no argument from me. I've been backing up the Tenors for years.
Emily and Martie sound great when they are providing the groundwork for Natalie's lead, and that is an important function. There are not many people who can do that well. A lot of people who can sing lead vocal can't do it. Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor can, but not many others. Maybe it's an ego thing.
It is very savvy of the Dixie Chicks to have everybody doing what they do best, with this one exception. As I say, I am a big fan of their music. It's a shame about their politics.
I could never have imagined that I'd ever turn down good seats at face value for a Springsteen concert, but I just did. I just don't feel like sitting there listening to him pontificate on issues far outside his realm of comprehension. (Plus, face value is now over a hundred bucks!)
I'd like to shoot the jackass who gave Bruce the Woodie Guthrie albums and the John Steinbeck books.
Yeah, he read a book. Sure.
He was always a working man bard but fame ruined him. I think he initially shocked people by singing about normal life in New Jersey. No one else was writing about "racing in the streets" and "Candy's room". Then he forgot about NJ and became musically a harder version of Michael Bolton. I knew he was doomed when a Chi Omega told me that she liked Springsteen because he had a "cute butt". I never thought I would see that happen.
I was a Dixie Chicks fan until they p!ssed me off. It's the arrogance that astounds me. Fans are customers, and you can't insult your customers and then write a song about how angry you are when they refuse to buy your albums. Sure other artists have made similar comments, but they were not country acts nor were they so brazen as to continue giving the finger to their fans.
Then Natalie Maines, who I used to think was just the cutest thing, sponsored the big pro-abortion "March for Women's Lives." Check the link: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/apr/04041602.html
After that I was through with them.
Whith the exception of Pond scum = Pounds of Scum.
Well all I can say is, I haven't heard ANY new chix crap on either Country station here in Pittsburgh... but they buying ad space on both of them for their concert here... which I find amusing.
"WE ARE THROUGH WITH COUNTRY MUSIC"
"HEY COUNTRY WESTERN LISTENERS... COME SEE US LIVE"....
bwahahaha.. from what I hear, their show isn't selling tooo well here... I wonder why?
Before they brought about their own downfall, I thought they were a passable CW group. Although we were never enthralled enough to buy any of their music.
A fact which I appreciate all the more at this time.
>>Talk Radio is playing their songs? Damn.. That's desperate.
Well, the Air America stations in Boston are promoting their shows (on website; maybe even co-sponsoring it). No doubt the AAR shows are probably playing excerpts of songs and urging their listeners to buy album/see tour.
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