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• The Chicks spent the first half of the ’90s toiling away on the independent bluegrass circuit, releasing three albums on small labels, before sisters Martie Seidel and Emily Robison decided to revamp their sound in 1995, adding Natalie Maines as their lead singer and, in the process, moving the group away from bluegrass and toward a major label with Sony/Columbia’s revived Monument Records imprint. All of this seems like the blueprint for a big pop crossover move and, to be sure, their 1998 major-label debut Wide Open Spaces was a monumental success, selling over ten million copies and turning the group into superstars.

  Wide Open Spaces pulls from several different sources — the Chicks’ Americana roots, to be sure, but also bits of the alt-country from kd lang and Lyle Lovett, ’70s soft rock (any album that features versions of songs by J.D. Souther and Bonnie Raitt surely fits this bill), even the female neo-folkies emerging on the adult alternative rock stations at the end of the decade. In other words, it hit a sweet spot, appealing to many different audiences because it was eclectic without being elitist, but they also had a true star in Natalie Maines, whose powerful, bluesy voice gave these songs a compelling centre.

  – AllMusic.com

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• Artist: Dixie Chicks Label: Legacy, Monument, Sony Music, Strategic Artist Management Format: LP Units: 1 Country: USA, Canada & Europe Genre: Country Style: Country

• A1 I Can Love You Better
  A2 Wide Open Spaces
  A3 Loving Arms
  A4 There’S Your Trouble
  A5 You Were Mine
  A6 Never Say Die
  B7 Tonight The Heartache’S On Me
  B8 Let ‘Er Rip
  B9 Once You’Ve Loved Somebody
  B10 I’Ll Take Care Of You
  B11 Am I The Only One (Who’S Ever Felt This Way)
  B12 Give It Up Or Let Me Go