Taking the Long Way | 
| Artist: Dixie Chicks
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  1187 reviews
Sales Rank: 509
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 80739
UPC: 828768073926
EAN: 0828768073926
ASIN: B000F7MG4G
Release Date: May 23, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | The Long Way Around | | • | Easy Silence | | • | Not Ready To Make Nice | | • | Everybody Knows | | • | Bitter End | | • | Lullaby | | • | Lubbock Or Leave It | | • | Silent House | | • | Favorite Year | | • | Voice Inside My Head | | • | I Like It | | • | Baby Hold On | | • | So Hard | | • | I Hope |
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Nothing changes folks like babies and war, and since the release of their last album, 2002's Home, the Dixie Chicks have been forever altered by both. If that album showcased the trio as precocious young adults, Taking the Long Way finds them sobered and matured, and in a grown-up state of mind. Produced by the celebrated Rick Rubin (Johnny Cash, Red Hot Chili Peppers), who saw the Chicks as "a great rock act making a country album, not a country act making a rock album," their new record impresses both as beautiful sonic tapestry (peppered with myriad Beatlesque hallmarks) and forthright yet vulnerable portrait of three women shaken by the personal and political events of the past few years. As they make clear in the defiant "Not Ready to Make Nice," they still smart over the backlash from their 2003 Bushwhacking. But as they assert on the equally autobiographical "The Long Way Around," they could never "kiss all the asses that they told me to" and just follow others aimlessly--and silently--through life. This means that the Chicks are simultaneously prideful and scornful of celebrity ("Everybody Knows"), and that as new mothers they increasingly treasure the refuge they find in life with their families, out of the spotlight ("Easy Silence," "Lullaby," "Baby Hold On"). The push and pull of both passions drive this record, which also touches on the personal issues of infertility (with which sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison both dealt) and Alzheimer's (from which Natalie Maines's grandmother suffers). The trio crafted all 14 cuts with the help of such writers as Sheryl Crow, Gary Louris, Mike Campbell, and Keb' Mo', laying out their lives as honestly and intimately as they might in their diaries. For that reason, on first listen, Taking the Long Way seems too somber--in need of a bit of levity and more than a couple of uptempo songs (like the sexy, '60s-flavored "I Like It") to resonate for the long haul. It also seems to lack the writing quality that Darrell Scott, Patty Griffin, and Bruce Robison brought to Home. But on repeated plays, those concerns dissipate. By the last cut, the R&B/gospel offering "I Hope," the Chicks have chronicled their journey with as much spirituality as spunk, their pain deeply ingrained in their protests. --Alanna Nash
Description
With Taking The Long Way, one of the most anticipated albums in recent years, the Dixie Chicks are putting themselves out there like never before. For the first time, every one of the disc's fourteen songs are co-written by the Chicks themselves, exploring themes both deeply private and resoundingly political. Collaborating with legendary producer Rick Rubin (who has worked with everyone from Johnny Cash to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, from Run DMC to Neil Diamond), the biggest-selling female band in history has truly pushed themselves to new heights both as writers and as performers. "Everything felt more personal this time," says Maines. "I go back to songs we've done in the past and there's just more maturity, depth, intelligence on these. They just feel more grown-up." Inspired by such classic rock artists as the Eagles, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and the Mamas and the Papas, Taking The Long Way adds a sweeping, Southern California vibe to the Chicks' down-home intimacy. That ambition is matched with lyrics addressing everything from small-town narrow-mindedness ("Lubbock or Leave It") to the psychology of celebrity ("Everybody Knows"). "This album was about finding a balance in the different aspects of our lives," says Emily Robison, "but there's something thematic there, too--it's really about being bold." Dixie Pics Dixie Discs 
Home | 
Wide Open Spaces | 
Fly | 
Top of the World Tour (Live CD) | 
Top of the World Tour (DVD) | 
An Evening with the Dixie Chicks (DVD) |
Album Description
Japanese pressing. No extras. 2006.
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Miss You Dixie Chicks January 30, 2010
Miss Marti (Ferndale, WA)
When this album first came out I bought it right away only to be stolen by a family member who loved it as much as I did. This was the 'chicks' last album and I encourage anyone who is a Dixie Chick fan or new to there music to buy this album and enjoy. I hope that soon they'll release another album.
A fan Marti
If more country music were like this, it wouldn't be so terminally boring January 6, 2010
M. R. Traska (Chicago, IL)
Not the first and not the last to review this by starting with 'I'm not a country music fan, but...', I have to say these gals make music that is mindful, thoughtful (not the same thing), thought-provoking, and persists in the mind long after you're done playing it. Country-folk, maybe, with a dash of Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Chris Isaak, and Paul Simon in there somewhere. And harmonies in popular music haven't been this tight since Brian Wilson led the Beach Boys during the '60s (Wilson knew something about thoughtful lyrics, too, so I doubt he'd mind the comparison). Because of this, the Dixie Chicks' music often surpasses genre. This is country for people who think, as opposed to the mindless, insipid, repetitive, mediocre, occasionally irritating, and time-wasting twaddle that passes for country music these days. Enough said. Just listen.
 Not so January 5, 2010
M. Durand (Minnesota)
1 out of 11 found this review helpful
I never bought this cd. I'm a fan of their past works and that stuff was brilliant. I'm no Bush supporter or even a Republican. I'm a conservative Libertarian voter. Therefore, the girls did nothing but piss off half of their listening audience and they paid the price. Good going, girls.
 Luv the dixie chicks & always have; December 19, 2009
J. Aldrich
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I never stop loving these people...
I have all their cds & some DVDs...
I don't think they ever did anything to be
treated so badly by some people...
I am 67 and my grandkids also love them
they dance with me to the music...
Ouch.... November 21, 2009
angryfornoreason (Somewhere else......)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
Not sure how any fan of the Dixie Chicks can listen to this album and not feel that they have been slapped in the proverbial face. Obviously, "Not ready to make nice" is a stab back at all the political fallout that has surrounded the DCs in recent years. From the opening cord of NRTMN, you can tell this is going to be a darker, more somber Dixie Chicks than we've seen in the past. Gone is the humor found in Goodbye Earl. Replaced with a darker, serious statement wrapped in great music and poignant lyrics. They get back to an upbeat musical tone with Everybody Knows; however, listening to the lyrics will reveal they are still pushing it right in your face. I have always had a high respect for the DCs because of their playing abilities and their song writing skills. That respect has sky-rocketed because of their willingness to stick to their principles and face the fallout - Everybody Knows their face and they're not afraid to put themselves out there. Now, to address the four star rating: the first half of the album is both lyrically and musically masterful; however, it is 15 tracks long (which is a lot of music). Unfortunately, the quality of the tracks wanes in the second half of the album. To me, the last few songs just aren't as well written and nothing resonates like it does in the first half of the album; so, I dinged them a star. All in all a great album.
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