6/13/06 Songwriter Responds to Dixie Chicks 'Lubbock or Leave It' (Pens 'Trouble In The Henhouse')

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[hispanarepublicana]

6/13/06
Songwriter Responds to Dixie Chicks 'Lubbock or Leave It'
 

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It's no secret the Dixie Chicks have ruffled some tail feathers since their 2003 comment about President Bush. And their latest album 'Taking the Long Way' is targeting Lubbock.

You'll recall some radio stations in Lubbock still aren't playing the chicks or their new song, 'Lubbock or Leave It.' Now one singer, songwriter is putting his reaction to the song to music.

Billy Briggs is a Lubbock native who now lives in the Dallas area. After reading the lyrics to 'Lubbock or Leave It', he joked with his brothers about writing a response song.

He said attacking the president is one thing, but attacking lLubbock is another altogether! That joke turned into about two weeks of late night work, and the result is 'Trouble in the Henhouse.'

It's an up-tempo, high-octane country shuffle with a tongue-in-cheek message - Don't Mess with Lubbock.

Billy Briggs says his song is not an attack on the Dixie Chicks or their political views, rather a response to their song 'Lubbock or Leave It.'

Briggs grew up in Lubbock, attended Monterey High and graduated from Texas Tech. He says he's proud of Lubbock and thinks most people agree. "We just felt like it would be a way for us to say not everybody who grew there are on the same page as the girls on this," Briggs said. 

"There are nine titles actually used throughout the course of the lyrics in my song and that's a mix of Buddy Holly tunes and Dixie Chicks tunes," Briggs said.

"When I read the lyrics to the song it kind of personally effected me because of my feelings of Lubbock and the close ties that we have to the town," Briggs said.

'Trouble in the Henhouse' is being played on 99.5 The Bear here in Lubbock.

The Dixie Chick's album was number one on the Billboard charts after one week of sales.

There have also been rumors through various web sites and radio stations that the chicks have been canceling some of the shows on their new tour. On the Dixie Chicks homepage, it actually says they've added eight new cities to their tour and they have not canceled any shows.

To listen to the entire song (click here).  You can get to Briggs' website by (clicking here).

[ImaTexan]

From a TRUE Texan that doesn't like the Dixie Dorks!!!

[spikeytx86]

Well I have been here in Lubbock for just under 2 weeks so I am a newbie here but I gotta say Lubbock is far far far better then anything I left in Houston.

The Twits are just a bunch of whiny little nothings trying to impress there friends on the left with there Texas bashing. The little piggy maines and the rest must be dumber then dirt to think they will ever make it as "pop stars". I heard that there concert at the Toyota center in Houston has been postponed indefinitely do to horrible ticket sales :-) .

[Army Air Corps]

Well, ol' Natalie is not bound to learn any lessons from this - that gal is dumber than a bag of hammers. I watched an interview with her a couple of weeks ago and she made a coke-addled Valley Girl seem articluate and well-spoken.

[Army Air Corps]

"Well I have been here in Lubbock for just under 2 weeks so I am a newbie here..."

Welcome to The Big L.

[Liberty Valance]

Llano Estacado Bump.

[TexasNative2000]

Cold Water? What memories!!! Their weekly Wednesday night "Crash & Burn" was the opening night of our famous 'Murdough Fifth Floor Five Day Weekend.'

"Well I'm a high straight in Plainview, side bet in Idalou, and a fresh deck in New Deal.

Yeah some call me high hand and some call me low hand, but I'm holdin' what I am - The Wheel.

And I'm a panhandlin', manhandlin', post-holin', high rollin', dust-bollin' daddy.

And I ain't got no blood veins, I just got these four lanes of hard Amarillo highway."

Damn! What good times.

[spikeytx86]

Thanks for the welcome. And thank you for the dry heat Lubbock! I love going out when it is 100 degrees and not breaking a sweat.

[no dems]

"I bet Sean Hannity would play it. Someone should send him a link."

I'll bet you're right. As a matter-of-fact, O'Reilly might even have him on his show. No love lost between Billy O' and the Dixie Chicks.

[gcruse]

It's not like the chicksie dicks were breaking anything newer than wind, anyway. Remember "Happiness is Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror"?

[AwesomePossum]

Here's another song about Lubbock by a friend, Coe Rolin.

"Layover in Lubbock" by Coe Rolin

Verse 1
I have a layover in Lubbock,
so I grabbed a burger and took the Walk of Fame.
And, when I got to the statue,
I stopped to ponder the Holly name.

Chorus
And the memories flood, like carnival searchlights
sweepin' my mind across the star lit sky,
takin' me back to so many first times.......
I'm sorry that I'll - be leavin' Lubbock tonight.

Verse 2
Tappin' seat backs to "Sheila" and "Peggy Sue".
"Raining In My Heart" when someone had the blues.
We were on our first date, when we heard - the - news.

Repeat Chorus
And the memories flood, like carnival searchlights
sweepin' my mind across the star lit sky,
takin' me back to so many first times.......
I'm sorry that I'll - be leavin' Lubbock tonight.

Bridge
The songs we sang a thousand times,
when things were simple and we had one mind.
I learned to dance, you learned to drive,
we washed new blue jeans down a size.
We raised a family - then we tried
to keep you from goin' to the other side.

Repeat Chorus
And the memories flood, like carnival searchlights
sweepin' my mind across the star lit sky,
takin' me back to so many first times.......
I'm sorry that I'll - be leavin' Lubbock tonight.

Outro
I have a layover in Lubbock,
so I grabbed a burger and took the Walk of Fame.

© 2006 Coe Rolin Music

[true_blue_texican]

bttt

[hispanarepublicana]

Well....I've never heard Tex-Mex and "the Lubbock sound" in a single sentence before.....I thought Tex-Mex was food.

[JFC]

I heard this on news last night. I want to buy his cd.

Glad to have someone with some brains from Lubbock, instead of featherhead Natalie Maines.

[hispanarepublicana]

See reply #31.

[hispanarepublicana]

I wonder if Ralph's has it?

[JFC]

Lloyd is soundly behind Natalie........ he and she are the only libs in the Maines Family.

[hispanarepublicana]

Ooooh. Do you have insight as to how the rest of the family feels about all this?

[Liberty Valance]

When this whole thing started my father told me that he thought that the DChix had "hockey'd in their own henhouse". He was born on the farm just outside Post at Two Draw Lake. He played fiddle and guitar when the work was done and taught me to play as a youngin'. I was born in Post in 1954.

[hispanarepublicana]

Wow, is that photo down by Post? If so, where is it?

[Liberty Valance]

No. That's the Palo Duro Canyon overlook.
Here's one near Post of the Caprock escarpment...

The edge of the Llano is a magic place.