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The Dixie Chicks are still a three some. Always will be.

The Courtyard Hounds are two of the girls in the group doing a project on their own, as Natalie wants to stay home w/ the kids for a bit longer.

Rumors are always way less interesting than the truth.

They're still a "Trio", Maines just isn't a part of the "Duo" "Court Yard Hounds". I saw them on Letterman the other night and they sound pretty good.

ernestsewell said:

They (The Courtyard Hounds) said that on the View this week. I get the feeling when Natlaie's is ready, "The Dixie Chicks" well come back together.

TD3 said:

Yep, that's where I saw it. I can understand Natalie just wanting to stay at home w/ her kids, and her hot ass husband Adrian Pasdar. The Chicks will be back all in good time, as they are not broken up.

The chicks are doing a mini tour this summer with another group. So they're doing fine. N the CYH disc is pretty good.

This track is really great.

lazycrockett said:

isn't the other group The Eagles?

missmad said:

I thought I had heard w/ The Eagles too, but I found this as well:

Sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison, two-thirds of the Dixie Chicks, are spreading their chicken wings and dipping their pouty little beaks into a new feed trough of their own. Today, the pair released an album on the Columbia label called Court Yard Hounds.

According to Billboard.com, Robison and Maguire first decided to record as Court Yard Hounds when Dixie Chicks lead vocalist Natalie Maines wanted to take time off and they were “itching to create some new music.” “She was happy for us that we were able to find an outlet for the stuff that I'd been writing,” Robison said.
The album includes acoustic, rock, country and folk influences. The Court Yard Hounds are even touring the U.S., doing the Lilith Fair, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and other shows. They will also be doing the talk show circuit, appearing on Good Morning America, Late Night With Jimmy FallonJimmy Fallon, Late Show With David Letterman, The View, The Ellen DeGeneresEllen DeGeneres Show and the Late Late Show With Craig FergusonCraig Ferguson.

To help sell the new concept and get the music out into the hands of the fans faster, anyone who preordered the CD from the band’s website was given four songs as downloadable files.

To help fit their mom lifestyle, they’ve been blogging on MomsLife.com and doing weekly webisodes on a variety of sites. Also, their outfits from each TV publicity event will be available for sale at iDeeli.com. There will also be a special day when the outfits will be bundled with the record.

The trio are continuing to work together even as the CYH’s album is released. The Chicks are heading out soon for a North American outdoor stadium tour with the Eagles and Keith UrbanKeith Urban throughout the month of June. This will be the girls’ first tour in four years and they will be promoting their newest album, Taking the Long Way. Meanwhile, Sony Legacy will reportedly release a Dixie Chicks compilation June 1. To date, the Dixie Chicks have sold 25 million albums.

ernestsewell said:

cools. I think I saw that on their site also

Two Dixie Chicks Decide To Run With Hounds

May 8, 2010


Long before Emily Robison and Martie Maguire founded the Dixie Chicks, they played together, as children, in a bluegrass band. And, as Maguire recalls, no one would have guessed her kid sister was a future pop star.

"Emily would wear this cap when she'd play the banjo, like this," Maguire says, tilting her head down to suggest a little girl hiding under a big hat. "She didn't want anyone to look at her. You couldn't see her eyes through the whole set."

That has changed. Robison, 37, is now lead singer of Court Yard Hounds, a duo she and Maguire, 40, formed while Chicks frontwoman Natalie Maines was on hiatus. (The name refers to a fictional book in the David Benioff novel City of Thieves.) Robison also is principal songwriter on the act's new self-titled debut. The first single, The Coast, is No. 55 and rising on USA TODAY's adult-alternative airplay chart.

"There's been a learning curve," Robison allows, chatting with Maguire in a hotel room during a recent visit to promote the album. "Martie and I have always been harmony singers. But I wrote these songs for my voice, and they're very personal. Martie was the cheerleader. She said, 'You need to sing these songs. They're yours.' "

Robison's creative spurt was inspired by different factors, among them her split from country singer Charlie Robison, whom she divorced in 2008. "But I didn't want to just do an album of breakup songs. I was going through other things — observing other people and taking stock of my own life, and not just as a divorcée. I also fell in love again."

Though Robison won't elaborate on the new romance, she and Maguire do talk openly about the status of their day jobs. The Hounds are essentially the product of Maines' decision to take more time off from the Chicks than her bandmates felt comfortable with.

"Every time we'd call her, it was, 'Well, I'm planting my garden this week,' or 'I'm learning how to do hooked rugs,' " Maguire says. "I thought, 'Why can't you do that after you retire?' She was exhausted, and we were, too. But after about a year off, we were twiddling our thumbs."

Court Yard Hounds was a savvy way to bide their time, says Rolling Stone contributing editor David Browne. "It was smart to make a commercial folk-pop album rather than a country album. The Dixie Chicks have always had a singer/songwriter style. I don't know how many hard-core country fans they still have or how they would compete with all the young blondes in country music right now."

The three Chicks will reunite in June for stadium concerts with the Eagles, juggling dates with the Hounds, whose first gig at South by Southwest music festival in March was warmly received. The duo's trek kicks off June 18 in Colorado at Telluride Bluegrass Festival and also includes stops on Lilith Fair.

Maguire and Robison insist the Chicks will re-enter the studio eventually. "We've heard from other people, 'Oh, you should just get a new singer,' " Robison says. "But that was never an option."

Robison even sees shades of Maines in her 5-year-old daughter, Julianna, who now fronts her own girl group — The Ruffles — with Maguire's twins, Eva and Katie, 6. "Julianna's confidence reminds me of how Natalie describes herself as a little girl."

Maguire, too, sees their musical torch being passed.

"I've been talking with my girls about starting to learn an instrument," she says. "Of course, they're totally enamored of their Aunt Emily, so when they saw the rhinestone strap on her banjo, that was it. We're going to have twin banjo players."



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