The Chicks Songs Ranked

The Chicks (previously known as Dixie Chicks) are an American country music band. Since 1997, the band has consisted of Natalie Maines (lead vocals, guitar) and sisters Martie Maguire (vocals, fiddle, mandolin, guitar) and Emily Strayer (vocals, guitar, banjo, Dobro). Maguire and Strayer, both née Erwin, founded the band in 1989 in Dallas, Texas, with bassist Laura Lynch and vocalist and guitarist Robin Lynn Macy. They performed bluegrass and country music, busking and touring the bluegrass festival circuits and small venues for six years without attracting a major label. In 1992, Macy left and Lynch became the lead vocalist. The Chicks have won 13 Grammy Awards, including five in 2007 for Taking the Long Way, which received the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and its single “Not Ready to Make Nice”, which received the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. By July 2020, with 33 million certified albums sold and sales of 27.9 million albums in the US, the Chicks had become the best-selling female band and best-selling country group in the US during the Nielsen SoundScan era (1991–present). Here are all of The Chicks songs ranked.

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10. Sin Wagon (Fly, 1999)

“It’s up-beat and delightfully entertaining. These lyrics are about as raunchy as I’ve heard the Chicks get (with the line “Doin’ a little mattress dancin’/That’s right I said mattress dancin'”). This is the most twang-y song on the album, and there’s no doubt ‘Sin Wagon’ is as infectious as it is fun.”

9. Tortured, Tangled Hearts (Home, 2002)

“I think this song is about how love can be misleading. You think someone is so in love with you when really there not and you go out of your way for them and they break it off without even lookin back.it leaves you confused and broken but we go back out and do it all again.”

8. Goodbye Earl (Fly, 1999)

“The group have had more than their share of controversy. Goodbye Earl is a song about domestic violence in which two women get their revenge by poisoning his food, killing him. In a footnote following the lyrics, the ladies say they do not advocate premeditated murder but love getting even. Nevertheless, they lost some fans and gained others because of the controversy.”

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7. Not Ready to Make Nice (Taking the Long Way, 2006)

“Who’d a think that one of the most punk moves of recent years would come from the Dixie Chicks. Putting out a single that basically calls out the bulk your own audience as redneck knee-jerk reactionaries shows some serious stones.”

6. Travelin’ Soldier (Home, 2002)

“This is an emotionally wrenching song. The storyline carries you, the harmonies sooth you, and the layers of the instruments fill your heart until at the end the drum cadence bruises what is left of your soul. It leaves me in tears.”

5. Cowboy Take Me Away (Fly, 1999)

“It’s the first ballad on the CD and, simply said, it’s amazingly beautiful. The music is soft and calming, and the lyrics are sweet and some of the most romantic I’ve ever heard.”

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4. Without You (Fly, 1999)

“It’s an emotionally driven track clearly about losing a lover. Sure, its lyrics are a little “high school”, but they’re sweet, and the vocals are so moving that ‘Without You’ is one of the best (and one of my favourites) off of ‘Fly’. “

3. Long Time Gone (Home, 2002)

“This song and the video looks and sounds like it was made today! I can’t believe it was made 18 yrs ago. I love it so much! I remember playing the album so much when it came out. This is one of my favorite songs.”

2. Landslide (Home, 2002)

“Stevie Nicks’ version makes you reflect everything you ever did in your life as you smile savoring the memories, good and bad; while The Dixie Chicks version gives you the amount of hope you need to carry on knowing that good things can and will happen.”

1. Tonight the Heartache’s on Me (Wide Open Spaces, 1998)

“It starts out by telling about an ex-boyfriend arriving with his new girlfriend (a product of his cheating ways) somewhere his previous girlfriend was hanging out. It’s up-beat and jokingly refers to being made a fool of and having a broken heart.”