Dixie Chicks

With so many Nashville acts playing mainstream pop, the Dixie Chicks' long-awaited sixth album is a refreshing breath of sweet country air. Even their gorgeous cover of Stevie Nicks' "Landslide" gets dressed up with all the rootsy frills that made albums like the O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack a phenomenon.

Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Robison are perky, earnest and can play a little, so
they'll be ding-blasted if they'll jeopardize their status as the princesses of likable country
pop. Home finds the chicks fluffing their feathers over a broody collection of
tinged-with-melancholy numbers and a couple of song stories, such as Bruce Robison's
maudlin "Travelin' Soldier" and Patty Griffin's "Top of the World." Free from lush N... More >

Deeper proof than they intended of the deep meaning of neobluegrass--you can't go home again ("Travelin' Soldier," "White Trash Wedding") (Grade - *)