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Taking the Long Way by: Dixie Chicks List Price: $18.97 CD-Charts Price: $9.97 You Save: $9.00 (47%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0828768073926 Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Release Date: May 23, 2006 Studio: Sony Sales Rank: 277 MPN: 80739 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Nothing changes folks like babies and war, and since the release of their last album, 2002's Home, the Dixie Chicks have been forever altered by both. If that album showcased the trio as precocious young adults, Taking the Long Way finds them sobered and matured, and in a grown-up state of mind. Produced by the celebrated Rick Rubin (Johnny Cash, Red Hot Chili Peppers), who saw the Chicks as "a great rock act making a country album, not a country act making a rock album," their new record impresses both as beautiful sonic tapestry (peppered with myriad Beatlesque hallmarks) and forthright yet vulnerable portrait of three women shaken by the personal and political events of the past few years. As they make clear in the defiant "Not Ready to Make Nice," they still smart over the backlash from their 2003 Bushwhacking. But as they assert on the equally autobiographical "The Long Way Around," they could never "kiss all the asses that they told me to" and just follow others aimlessly--and silently--through life. This means that the Chicks are simultaneously prideful and scornful of celebrity ("Everybody Knows"), and that as new mothers they increasingly treasure the refuge they find in life with their families, out of the spotlight ("Easy Silence," "Lullaby," "Baby Hold On"). The push and pull of both passions drive this record, which also touches on the personal issues of infertility (with which sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison both dealt) and Alzheimer's (from which Natalie Maines's grandmother suffers). The trio crafted all 14 cuts with the help of such writers as Sheryl Crow, Gary Louris, Mike Campbell, and Keb' Mo', laying out their lives as honestly and intimately as they might in their diaries. For that reason, on first listen, Taking the Long Way seems too somber--in need of a bit of levity and more than a couple of uptempo songs (like the sexy, '60s-flavored "I Like It") to resonate for the long haul. It also seems to lack the writing quality that Darrell Scott, Patty Griffin, and Bruce Robison brought to Home. But on repeated plays, those concerns dissipate. By the last cut, the R&B/gospel offering "I Hope," the Chicks have chronicled their journey with as much spirituality as spunk, their pain deeply ingrained in their protests. --Alanna Nash Description: With Taking The Long Way, one of the most anticipated albums in recent years, the Dixie Chicks are putting themselves out there like never before. For the first time, every one of the disc's fourteen songs are co-written by the Chicks themselves, exploring themes both deeply private and resoundingly political. Collaborating with legendary producer Rick Rubin (who has worked with everyone from Johnny Cash to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, from Run DMC to Neil Diamond), the biggest-selling female band in history has truly pushed themselves to new heights both as writers and as performers. "Everything felt more personal this time," says Maines. "I go back to songs we've done in the past and there's just more maturity, depth, intelligence on these. They just feel more grown-up." Inspired by such classic rock artists as the Eagles, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and the Mamas and the Papas, Taking The Long Way adds a sweeping, Southern California vibe to the Chicks' down-home intimacy. That ambition is matched with lyrics addressing everything from small-town narrow-mindedness ("Lubbock or Leave It") to the psychology of celebrity ("Everybody Knows"). "This album was about finding a balance in the different aspects of our lives," says Emily Robison, "but there's something thematic there, too--it's really about being bold." Dixie Pics
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Album Description: Japanese pressing. No extras. 2006. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - A great albumI don't care what anyone says about the Dixie Chicks...this group rocks and this album proves it. Rating: - the Dixie Chicks are great!!The music on this latest Dixie Chicks is fantastic! It is definately an answer to all those who refused to listen, burn their music and live narrow minded and small. The CD makes even more sense if you had the opportunity to watch "Shut up and Sing" (which was really interesting to watch their process in making music and gave a really nice insight into their lives...bravo!). Anyway, the music itself, I think is even more mature and complex than their previous CD's.. Overall, I would say it is a great addition to any Dixie Chick fan's collection...any music fan's collection for that matter. Rating: - MUSICHow did these Gals express my feelings so well? They did it one song at a time! There is not a bad song on this one..........they are all 5 Stars! This Group just keeps getting better!!! Please keep writing music in this vein........... Rating: - Very Progressive Country & Rock MusicI'm a Progressive Rock person, but the Dixie Chicks have exceeded My wildest expectations with this Album. One will fall in love with every song on it, & if your a Progressive Person, You will understand & feel for the Lyrics of each song. J.E. Silverton, Blue-Oregon. Rating:  - Taking the Long Way is such a political Album that it reflects Maines' Axl Rose-like Martyr Complex & Bush Derangement Syndrome!Taking the Long Way--should be called "Taking the Liberal Sellout Way for a Pop Audience While Stabbing Country Music Fans in the Back"--is the Dixie Chicks' notoriously billed "comeback" album, after Natalie Maines ineptly ruined their careers by provoking the real, American patriots called country music fans!!!! It's impossible to separate politics and current events from the music on this CD since Taking the Long Way glaringly symbolizes the Chicks' defiant attitude towards those (real Americans and patriots) who demanded an apology from them for their anti-American, anti-Bush tirade on foreign shores in 2003. Since they alienated the country music fan base--where they rightly received death threats and had their CDs symbolically ... Read More: |
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