Sitting at our campground in Hamilton, Ontario. Fun show last night. Very cool little club. Great mediterranean food. First of 2 shows with the Jimmy Swift Band. Real nice guys. Good band. Different from us. Very electronic at times but cool. Playing with them again tonight.
Now I have a favor to ask. We stopped the other night to buy copies of the new Dixie Chicks album. PLEASE GO BUY THIS RECORD. It’s great. I haven’t wanted a record to succeed (other than ANY of mine) in a long, long time. They’re in a side of the industry that has lined up to try and break these women. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE if that didn’t happen.
I know, you may be a Bush fan(the pres. not the band) and say, “…but she talked bad about the President in another country…..” blah, blah, blah. Or you may say, “…..entertainers should sing, not talk politics….” Sorry, y’all talk politics at your water coolers, so do we. Plus that was 4 years ago. Now you absolutely don’t have to agree with ANYTHING she said, thinks or believes. However, they aren’t sorry. I love that. Country radio has said they won’t support them. Said they need to ‘know their place and apologize’. There’s no room on country radio for this kind of stuff. Oh, but there’s plenty of room for the ‘honkey tonk badonk-a-donk’ or whatever in the shit that is. NO! They’re gonna do it the way THEY want to do it. Prove that they don’t NEED country radio.
Well, I bought the record and listened to it. It’s wonderful! It sounds like people making music because they believe in it. They have things they want to say, like them or not. Also, believe it or not, they actually PLAY on the record AND live!! This is what music is all about. To Natalie, Emily and Martie thank you for putting yourselves on the line. For making real music. For being one of the ONLY things in modern country music to believe in. Please keep it up.