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Article: How Dixie Chicks producer became biggest noise in pop
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- February 13, 2007
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The Chicks had tried everything to keep their chart-busting career
on track.
They had started out meek, by way of a contrite press release.
Then they turned defiant, continuing to play, even in venues where
they had been told they faced death threats. They were bold,
appearing naked on the cover of Entertainment Weekly with the
epithets of their more hysterical critics ("Dixie Sluts", "Saddam's
Angels", "Hippies", "Traitors") branded on their flesh.And they
weren't afraid to be confrontational, starting a very public feud
with the country music golden boy, Toby Keith.The big question,