The Dixie Chicks used to rule The Country Music Chars over a decade ago, they where undeniably the best group. However, they got faded out and it may be the fault of their own.

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The Chicks have, ahem, been a “Long Time Gone” from country music, through no fault of their own. The ignorance and fear of post-9/11 America may have once wiped them away from the country charts, but they continued to succeed in the adult-contemporary world until fading into oblivion for a decade, which is entirely too damn long.

One might think that perhaps Natalie Maines overheard the old jackass who proclaimed female artists to be the “tomatoes” that pepper the dude-bro salad that is country radio, and decided that she just couldn’t take any more shit, that she had to get back out on the road and show this current generation of artists how it’s done. Country music has changed quite a bit since the Chicks (and other wildly successful female artists from the 1990s) ruled the charts, and certainly not for the better.

And so, as the Dixie Chicks prepare to head out on the road for dozens of (likely) sold-out tour dates after ten years out of the spotlight, one has to wonder how that will influence the current country crowd. Will copies of Fly and Long Way Home fly off the digital shelves once again? Will they record again, and make everyone in the genre look like fools by producing the best mainstream country that we’ve seen since, well, the last time they were around? Or will they simply play these shows and go back home to their families?

At this point, any of these outcomes is as likely as the other. Who knows what the hell the Dixie Chicks, ever unpredictable, are going to do? But even just their mere reappearance could cause significant ripples in country music, some of which have been a long time coming. Country is in desperate need of diversity, both in terms of sound and in gender; that much is well-established. What is more important, though, is the effect the Chicks will have on other female artists in the genre.

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