When a red-blooded, macho, flag-waving, Bush-voting American country-music fan looks at a gorgeous blonde who also happens to make his kind of music, one doesn’t normally expect him to pay particular ...

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Toward the end of “Shut Up & Sing,” Natalie Maines is lying on a couch listening to Dixie Chicks manager Simon Renshaw lay out possible television options for promoting “Taking the Long Way,” the band ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The Center for Photography at Woodstock, 25 Dederick St., will host a free screening of the documentary film, “Shut Up and Sing,” on Thursday, July 17, at 7 p.m., according to an ...

Natalie Maines was just warming up when, on March 10, 2003, 10 days before the Iraq invasion, the lead singer of the Dixie Chicks stepped up to the mic on stage at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire Theatre ...

With watchmaker skill, director Barbara Kopple plays both loose and tight with time in her Dixie Chicks doc. The film jumps around before, during and after Natalie Maines’ infamous 2003 dis on Bush to ...

Toward the end of “Shut Up & Sing,” Natalie Maines is lying on a couch listening to Dixie Chicks manager Simon Renshaw lay out possible television options for promoting “Taking the Long Way,” the band ...

In the early 2000s, the Dixie Chicks (now The Chicks) reached new career heights, topping the country music charts, winning multiple Grammy Awards, and smashing commercial records left and right.