Lest there be any doubt that country music enters the new millennium in capable young hands, we end with one of the freshest acts around-the Dixie Chicks. Their “overnight” success story has the usual ten-years-in-the-making plot: Sisters Emily Erwin and Martie Seidel began performing in Dallas in 1989, and had worked through a number of lineups when Natalie Maines (daughter of noted steel guitarist Lloyd Maines) joined them in 1995. With a sound centered around tradition-fiddle, banjo and guitar-and a look as today as their celebrated tattoos, the trio are solid proof that country music will always be about honoring the past while seeking the “Wide Open Spaces” of tomorrow.
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