Posted on 02/22/2010 9:32:26 PM PST by truthandlife
Edited on 02/22/2010 9:37:19 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
He won’t see more than 1 day. The attorney will filter the money up.
“It’s news because it amuses some people when their political enemies...”
I know it amused the shit out of everyone when W did it in Maine...almost cost him an election with that little “October surprise” so, you make a good point...it does get played up, doesn’t it?.
If you don’t think he is a beautiful male specimen, I don’t know what to say.
Are you a guy? Just guesing lol!
More like a "Toss-up-your-cookies". Ewwww.
Remember the old adage: "Beauty is skin deep, but UGLY is to the bone!"
Dixie Chicks New Band Court Yard Hounds
They’re “country music’s most recognizable sidewomen,” the familiar faces who founded the Dixie Chicks... with voices only heard on harmonies.
Now, sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire are moving to a place they haven’t been in years — center stage, where the mic is all theirs. Court Yard Hounds is the name of the Texas natives’ new duo, with new music due in May ... and without Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines.
“I don’t think I could have done this five or 10 years ago with Martie,” Emily confesses. “I would have been too timid, too shy ... Now, I think, if some people don’t like it, that’s fine. Even if we have just 10 percent of the people who reacted to us before, or only new fans, whatever it is... we can make something of that.”
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=50255
http://www.courtyardhounds.com/
She can keep her ugly soul out of Tennessee, thank you very much.
Court Yard Hounds Tour
18Austin, TX SXSW - Antone’s
No more Dixie Chicks...
Dixie Chicks New Band Court Yard Hounds (without Natalie)
I’m not certain I want to activate those links. This waste of time is just to ridicule for me right now. She jumped her ass into the arena and now gets to bullfight. That is what it is.
The packaging doesn’t matter so much to me, if there is nothing particularly appealing inside.
That said, everyone has different tastes. That’s what makes the world go ‘round. : )
rollingstone.com - 1/18/2010
Dixie Chicks Plan Album, Tour With Court Yard Hounds Side Project — Photo: Michelson/WireImage With Natalie Maines on an indefinite hiatus, the other two Dixie Chicks — guitarist-banjoist Emily Robison and her sister, fiddler Martie Maguire — have recorded an album on their own, as Court Yard Hounds (a reference to the best-selling novel City of Thieves ).
Word on the street is that the two Dixie Chick sisters, Emily Robison and Martie Maguire, will call themselves the Courtyard Hounds now that they are Natalie-less. But does this mean the end of the Dixie Chicks? They say no. Martie says, “Emily and I had the itch, and every time we’d call Natalie and say ‘are you ready?’ she wasn’t ready. She wanted a clear-cut break.” Though the sisters are not sure about the Dixie Chicks’ future, they still hope to make music as a trio again someday.
“It was time,” says Robison in a press release. “We had been on hiatus from The Dixie Chicks for about a year, I was getting very restless and needed to be creative for my own sanity. And at the same time I was going through my divorce so it was very fertile ground for writing.”
“Emily was just writing and writing all of these deeply personal and truly beautiful songs,” Martie Maguire adds. ”She was initially going to pitch them to other artists and I kept telling her ‘No, no, you have to save that for you. It’s too good and too personal.’”
Everybody wants an interest. Everybody wants to be around interesting people. She provides none and has the audacity to speak for Texas in Europe. That was very unwise, some may say quite foolish.
(Robison split from country rocker Charlie Robison in 2008 after nine years of marriage.)
Although Robison and Maguire told Rolling Stone last month that the Chicks haven’t disbanded, they admit they rarely see third Chick, Natalie Maines, who lives in L.A. “I’m hoping she’ll come out to one of our shows,” Maguire says (the group’s last album, Taking the Long Way, came out in 2006). “Maybe it’ll inspire her to want to do music again.”
I’ll check it out. Sorry for the judgement but the links here can be crazy from time to time. :^)
“He’s married to Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines.”
I’d be drunk too...
Nothing more can be added to your statement, simply the stone cold fact.
I have to agree with Dont Tread On Me and LucyJo.
The DixieCHick and her husband are a match and he is not handsome.
Dif in tastes there KJ.
THEY STILL THINK THEY ARE SO IMPORTANT!
Even though they started recording the album early last summer in Maguire’s home studio, the existence of a Chicks’ offshoot was a well-kept secret until a few weeks ago.
“We deliberately kept it under the radar, just for the freedom to not be putting out fires while we were trying to be in the creative process,” Robison says. And by “fires,” she mostly means Chicks breakup rumors.
“When you’re doing something like this that’s a step away from a different band, the rumor mills start, and it just becomes something other than it’s supposed to be about, which is music,” she says. “So, yeah, it was conscious on our part to just do it without all that distraction. And until you have the music and you can play it for people, it’s uncomfortable and intimidating explaining what you’re trying to do. It was important for us to get the music done first so that we had that confidence.”
The Dixie Chicks were last seen triumphing at the Grammys in early 2007, where they swept album, record and song of the year for 2006’s Taking the Long Way and its flagship single, “Not Ready to Make Nice.” A hiatus was in store, with every expectation that there’d be another album and tour two or certainly three years down the line. But by mid-2009, it became clear that there were no prospects for a new Chicks project in sight, while Robison and Maguire still found themselves not ready to make retirement plans.
Maines “doesn’t want to be out there making music right now and going through the whole process,” says Robison. “But we saw her over New Year’s, and she said ‘When am I gonna hear the music?’ I think it’s hard for people to understand. I’ve had people come up and go ‘Well, you don’t need her anyway!’ I’m like, that’s not what this is about! People want to take sides or pick teams, whether it’s in my divorce or the band, like, ‘Oh, you’ll show ‘em!’”
She laughs, adding, “That’s not my motivation here. This just frees us up, and it takes a lot of pressure off her, too. If Natalie doesn’t want to be doing Dixie Chicks right now, then great, we’ll go do this. And she does give us her blessing. Not that we have to have it, but of course it’s nice that she’s very supportive.”
The Chicks didn’t break up, but Robison and her singer-songwriter husband, Charlie Robison, finalized their divorce in 2008. When she got seriously underway in her songwriting, that gave her plenty of emotional material to work with. A few of the songs on Court Yard Hounds are 100 percent true to her own recent experiences (including the opening “Skyline”), a few are pure conjecture (the father/son story “Ain’t No Son”) or based on the lives of friends (”Fear of Wasted Time”). Others fall somewhere in between.
Robison describes the material as about 70 percent autobiographical but adds that, for the most part, “I’m not going to get specific” about which parts are which. “Keep ‘em guessing,” she demurs. “It’s too much work to sit there and go ‘Well, that line is just somebody else.’ But,” she adds with a laugh, “I’m sure my ex is gonna have to weed through all that.”
“And I think people were a little sick of the Dixie Chicks after a while, you know. We were so in the media, media, media and then the Grammys, Grammys, Grammys. Where do you go from there? I feel like finally at least we personally have a little perspective on our career. We’ll know what to do next. But you’ve got to wait for it to come. It’s life, it’s a career, and it’s been long and good, and I don’t see it ending anytime before I’m just too old to do it.”
One benefit of going out on their own with a new project is the ability to release an album that can be received as music and not a statement. It’s hard to separate Taking the Long Way as a piece of song craft from how the tunes were taken as obliquely or overtly commenting on the Chicks’ situation after their 2003 war with country radio. After Maines infuriated much of the mainstream country world with her anti-war, anti-Bush statement on a London stage, it was clear the trio would never be seen as “just” musicians again. But as a duo, Maguire and Robison have that chance.
“It did become about the story,” sighs Robison. “Everything was so weighted, whether it was with politics or ‘What’s Natalie gonna say next?’ or this or that. It was so not about ‘What music are they coming out with next?’ Every time I’d key into the Internet, if I would catch a glimpse of our name, I’d cringe before I’d click on it because I’d be like” — she draws in a deep breath — “’Oh, what’s it going to say?’ It did become about the sensational story of whatever it was for the day. I don’t think that tends to be good for the psyche.”
When it comes time for the Chicks to rise again, Court Yard Hounds won’t necessarily be going away. “We’ll figure out how to marry the two,” Robison says. “When we do regroup, it’ll be because it’s going to be so much fun and so awesome and everyone wants to be there. But right now, you just have to go with what you know is happening. And we’re excited about this. We kind of created this monster with the Chicks, with touring expectations and how much it costs to walk out the door and put on a Chicks show. It’s nice and freeing to be able to be a bit more mobile and do something without that monkey on your back.”
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