[hispanarepublicana]

It should be noted that Natalie Maines' aunt is the early morning anchorwoman on KCBD TV; KCBD has promised "Commentary" at the end of tonight's newscast.

[hispanarepublicana]

Lubbock/TTU Ping

[decal]

"...Natalie Maines' aunt is the early morning anchorwoman on KCBD TV"

Is that Sharon Hibner Maines? She was the hotnewsbabe on KAMC when I was there...

[ichabod1]

Are you familiar with Lloyd Maines and the Maines Brothers? They've been a Texas Legend for a long time. That's why it's so disappointing that Natalie, who certainly has the pedigree to be quite talented, is such an obnoxious idiot.

I don't doubt that the family is liberal -- they're part of the Lubbock Mafia in Austin. But it's one thing to be liberal, another to be a loudmouth idiot. As one of our favorite talk radio hosts (who LOVES music) might say, "Shut up and sing."

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

LOL This song is too funny!

[WestTexasWend]

GREAT LYRICS...hope they hear it!

[starbase]

Well I'm not going to throw my Sammy Kershaw albums away, but I like their spirit in writing this song!

[Nachum]

Wonder how much airplay it'll get.

[Texas Eagle]

It should be noted that Natalie Maines' aunt is the early morning anchorwoman on KCBD TV

[Question Liberal Authority]

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

Oh, the horrors of censorship!

[FairWitness]

Anybody else remember this song by Mac Davis? I think if you read it to the end it turns out to be a "love song" to Lubbock.

Texas In My Rear View Mirror

I was just fifteen and out of control
Lost to James Dean and Rock-n-Roll
I knew down deep in my country soul that I had to get away
And Hollywood was a lady in red
Who danced in my dreams as I tossed in bed
I knew I'd wind up in jail or dead
If I have to stay

I thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rear view mirror
My mama kept calling me home but i just did not want to hear her
And the vision was gettin' clearer in my dreams

So I laid out one night in June
Stoned on the glow of the Texas moon
Hummin' an old Buddy Holly tune called Peggy Sue (Peggy Sue)
With my favorite jeans and a cheap guitar
I ran off chasin' a distant star
If Buddy Holly could make it that far
I figured I could too

And I thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rear view mirror
My mama kept calling me home but I just did not want to hear her
And the vision was gettin' clearer in my dreams

But the Hollywood moon didn't smile the same old smile that I'd grown up with
The lady in red just wanted my last dime
And I cried myself to sleep at night
To dumb to run to scared to fight
And too proud to admit it at the time

So I got me some gigs on Saturday nights
Not much more than orchestrated fights
I'd come home drunk and I'd tried to write
But the words came out wrong
Hell bent and bound for a wasted youth
Too much gin and not enough vermouth
And no one to teach me how to seek the truth before I put it in a song

And I still thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in a rear view mirror
My mama kept calling me home but I just could not, would not hear her
And the vision was getting clearer in my dreams

Well I thank God each and everyday
For giving me the music and the words to say
I'd have never made it any other way,he was my only friend
And now i sleep a little better at night 
and when I look in the mirror in the mornin' light
The man I see was both wrong and right
And he's going home again

I guess happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rear view mirror
But now happiness is Lubbock Texas growing nearer and dearer
and the vision is gettin' clearer in my dreams
And I think finally I know what it means
And when I die you can bury me in Lubbock Texas in my jeans

[blondee123]

The Dipsy Chicks were just in the Chicago area & a local radio station said they were having trouble selling tickets to their concert! HA HA HA

Plus, radio stations were trying to give away tickets & no one wanted them! HA HA HA!

[fatima]

Love it hispanarepublicana.

[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 :-) .

[Liberty Valance]

Llano Estacado Bump.

[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

[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.

[TejasRose]

A friend of my son's, during his rowdy college days, (about 1993 or 1994) had too much to drink one night and lost control of his car and ran into Natalie Maines' trailer house. Yep, you read that right. She attended school at South Plains College in Levelland and lived in a trailer house. I don't think she includes in her biography that she went to South Plains or lived in a trailer house. Levelland is no doubt too close to her hated hometown of Lubbock. I've been thinking about looking that young man up and giving him some kind of award! Ha! Not for driving drunk, mind you, but running into Maines' trailer house.

In my opinion, South Plains is a fine community college, and they probably are ashamed that Natalie Maines ever went to school there.