[Dixielandjazz] Dixie Chicks Thinking Outside The Box

[Steve barbone]

tcashwigg at aol.com wrote (polite snip)
 
> Not only did they have the intelligence to "THINK" OUTSIDE THE BOX,
> they also climbed out of the BOX and took their music to a new audience
> of people while the narrow minded  Red Necks in the box trash talked
> them for daring to exercise their own Freedom of Speech to disagree
> with Business as usual and what was being fed to them and all of us by
> the same Media. . .

Yes sir they exercised their freedom of speech and now their freedom of
musical speech. That is the central theme in their re-emergence, not all the
other stuff about whether they are "better" or "politically correct" or
smart or dumb. 

What they've done is mind boggling. They have re -invented their fan base.
Gotten away from "country" and gone elsewhere. They defeated the media who
refused to play their songs, they've defeated their original narrow minded
fan base who deserted them, not because they didn't like the music, but
because they didn't like their politics. (Their statement was made 2 weeks
before the USA invaded Iraq)

They have new fans to whom they still refuse to pander. Yet their new fans
buy their records and will come to see them on tour. Their recently released
single from the current CD was not a great hit because in essence it is a
refusal to back down from their original views. It is basically a verbally
extended middle finger, via song, to those who would not stand up for them
when the going got tough. Man, how cool is that?

Their marketing campaign is also a "real" story. A Time Cover a few days,
ago. A Time article a few weeks ago, a 60 minutes slot on TV a few weeks ago
and tonight, you can see them live on the Larry King Show.

Plus one hell of a hot opening week CD sales mark on the album. If you
google for that information it has probably hit the news wires by now, but
remember, the DJML scooped all of them by a couple of hours.

Freedom of Speech, including Freedom of Musical Performance just won a great
victory because of 3 Dixie Chicks with balls. And you heard it here first.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone