Natalie Maines: 'I Was Right From The Beginning'

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46. Without Lloyd Maines, and his Nashville/Austin ties, when they were looking for a new lead singer

they would not have picked Natalie in the first place.It helped her with the gravitas of an inside Texas/Nashville connection.

Lloyd is one of the most noted studio musicians in the last 30 years. Kudo's to Lloyd!

I mentioned btw, the Court Yard Hounds(you must not have seen that), but their cd basically died after a quick start.

They were the #1 Nashville act (since supplanted by Kenny Chesney then Taylor Swift), and their career went dead commercially when Natalie opened her mouth.
Of course, it behooves the other two to show solidarity because at some point they will reunite (though its doubtful unless the Nash-FM nationwide takes off with their NYC base that they will ever recover the country market as it is.
Then again, neither will Daryl Worrley (who in reverse based his career on agreeing with Bush.)

As Steve Earle said- he didn't leave Nashville because they were rightwing, he left nashville because all political talk was disallowed. (and he had a #1 album but decided to ditch it and become an alt-country Americana star with political motives.
But then again, Steve is a solo so his decision only affected him.
More power to him.

Natalie will probably get the very high debut and then the cd will crash(because of the way the charts work today). But it is doubtful she will ever reclaim her commercial success unless she reunited and played the hits note for note, like the Rolling Stones do on a larger basis.

What is a shame is that their sound was a country sound, but many now also do that,
so she is not offering anything the commercial markets want.
Alt(modern?), Triple A? She certainly isn't going to get Top 40 at this point.

So, will she get any new fans?
Country and pop are now a dime a dozen new artists, today, not yesterday.
look at George Jones, considered one of the 10 biggest country singers of all time

But the point of groups that are commercial (i.e.-doing it for the paycheck, the hits, the fame), is the need for a wide audience. It isn't a hobby. And they were in a way piggybacking off the Shania Twain anti-male country to begin with (i.e.-Earl.) They had an angle.



btw-if you think I made up that Lloyd Maines info-
wiki-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Maines

Maines won a Grammy Award for Best Country Album in 2003 as producer of the Dixie Chicks' album, Home.
As the father of Natalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks, he was instrumental in bringing the current lineup of bandmates together in 1995, which jump-started their sudden popularity and change in sound.
Susan Gibson's "Wide Open Spaces", which had been sent to Maines, proved to be a hit from their debut album, and has remained their signature song.