Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way
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Artist: Dixie ChicksBrand: Sony
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- 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
- Long Way Around [AOL Sessions]
- Easy Silence [AOL Sessions]
- Voice Inside My Head [AOL Sessions]
- Truth, No. 2 [AOL Sessions]
- Wide Open Spaces [AOL Sessions]
- Not Ready to Make Nice [DVD]
- Rick Rubin Interview [DVD] - Rick Rubin
Music reviews of Taking the Long Way
Music Review: Disappointed
Rating: 2 Stars
This album was disappointing, not because of the material or performances, but because of the heavy hand of producer Rick Rubin, who decided the Dixie Chicks are really a pop act. Consequently, instead of the delicate acoustic subtleties of previous albums what you get is in-your-face, overcompressed and overly-bright with an annoyingly up-front snare that bangs without variation as if it were a sequenced sample.
Compare this with the classic "Wide Open Spaces", which is beautifully recorded and mastered and worthy of use as a reference for recording engineers. The contrast with "Long Way" is depressing.
Description of Taking the Long Way
This enhanced package includes the full CD Taking the Long Way, plus a new bonus DVD. The special DVD features live performances of the Dixie Chicks from AOL Sessions, new interview footage with record producer Rick Rubin, and the hit video for "Not Ready to Make Nice". Check out www.dixiechicks.com for more updates on the Dixie Chicks.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
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