Lead singer Natalie Maines told a London audience, “Just so you know, we’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.” And all of a sudden, the biggest selling women’s band in the country couldn’t get radio airplay, was picketed, watched right-wingers engage in mass collection and destruction of their CDs, and lost a big chunk of their conservative country music audience.Interestingly, their sold-out 2003 concert tour continued to draw wild throngs of enthusiastic fans–but their next tour didn’t do so well. It would have been helpful to have an early, consistent, and strong legal argument against slavery.We got that protection decades later, in the Fourteenth Amendment–and even that wasn’t enough to stop the extreme segregation that followed for a hundred years after the Civil War…the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II–but not German- or Italian-Americans…and the roundups of Arabs and Muslims without due process that took place during the current administration.Now, I happen to be a First Amendment absolutist. Lead singer Natalie Maines is one tough Texan. it’s awesome to see them just being so open and honest about this career defining moment and the career defining album that it created. Includes footage of the band live on tour and in the studio.There's a problem loading this menu right now.Dixie Chicks - Top of the World Tour Live.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Dixie Chicks, London 2006 by Gene B. Great DVD,Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 23, 2009.I came across this documentary on an overnight flight, watching it on with little expectation of making it through the first few minutes. It was not left to the individual DJs, or even the individual stations. I was hooked from the outset; this film follows the Dixie Chicks through a couple of very turbulent years, saying more about redneck America and the music industry than anything I have seen before or since. In fact, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson principal authors of the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution) were absolutist as well–saying in the original draft and.In other words, I think Bill O’Reilly and Don Imus have the right to spew their filth–and their employers have the right to terminate their employment. Heard in sound bites, seen with hate slogans on signs and t-shirts, they are not a pretty picture.And there are the chilling backstage preparations for a Dallas concert before which they have received a death threat. The statement should of read”We, as Americans are embarrassed we elected this President for two terms”…..I am a Canadian, but I do love to watch politics. It shows in an unbias way that middle christian America is not at times very good at handling a different point of view, be it write or wrong. Discussing lagging CD and concert sales, they decide to be honest about it. I’m glad I found the Dixie Chicks. Yes, going green is good for the planet—AND for your bottom line!I’ve been wanting to see the Dixie Chicks movie “Shut Up and Sing” since I saw a trailer for it about a year ago. Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (also known simply as Shut Up and Sing) is a 2006 documentary film produced and directed by director Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck (daughter of actor Gregory Peck). America seems to be the "protest over absolutely nothing" capital of the world. Sign in to YouTube. I think the pro-war faction has every right to stop patronizing the Dixie Chicks, and to picket, and to make noses impugning their patriotism, event hough I happen to think the DCs are the patriotic ones here. You need to fight to keep basic rights such as free speech. And in those earliest days, the Administration was predicting a pacified, peaceful and democratic Iraq in months if not weeks. She didn’t show her daughters the group’s 2006 documentary “Shut Up and Sing,” which chronicled the aftermath of Maines’s comment, for many years. With Natalie Maines, Emily Robison, Martie Maguire, Clayton Allen. Iraq is being fought largely by an volunteer Army, if you can call being a National Guardsmen in your third tour of duty volunteering. Was there not one with the courage to play the most popular country group in the land? It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness.Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books.Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations,Select the department you want to search in.We work hard to protect your security and privacy.

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