Landslide
THE CHICKS
SONGWRITER: STEVIE
NICKS
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: HOME
LABEL: OPEN WILDE
GENRE: COUNTRY
YEAR: 2002
The Chicks (previously known as Dixie Chicks)
are an American country music band composed of lead singer Natalie Maines and multi-instrumentalist sisters Martie Maguire (née Erwin) and Emily Strayer (née Erwin; also formerly Robison). The Erwin sisters founded the
band in 1989 in Dallas, Texas with bassist Laura
Lynch and vocalist/guitarist Robin Lynn Macy,
and performed bluegrass and country music, busking and touring the
bluegrass festival circuits and small venues for six years without attracting a
major label. Macy left in 1992 and Lynch
became the lead vocalist soon afterward. Following the replacement of Lynch
with Maines and a change in repertoire, the Chicks achieved commercial success,
beginning in 1998 with hit songs "There's Your Trouble" and "Wide Open Spaces".
Days before the 2003 invasion
of Iraq, Maines told a London audience the band did
not endorse the war and were "ashamed" of US President George W. Bush being from Texas. The remarks triggered boycotts in
the US and backlash from fans. After a hiatus, they toured again
in 2010, 2013 and 2016. In 2020, they dropped "Dixie" from their name,
citing negative connotations, and released their first album in 14 years, Gaslighter.
The Chicks have won 13 Grammy Awards,
including five in 2007 for Taking the
Long Way—which received the Grammy Award
for Album of the Year—and its single "Not Ready to
Make Nice"—which received the Grammy Award
for Record of the Year and the Grammy Award
for Song of the Year. By July 2020, with 33 million
certified albums sold, and sales of 27.9 million albums in the U.S. alone,
they had become the best-selling female band and best-selling country group in
the U.S. during the Nielsen SoundScan era
(1991–present).
Home is the sixth studio album by American country music band Dixie Chicks,
released on August 27, 2002, through Monument and Columbia Records. It is notable for its acoustic
bluegrass sound, which stands in contrast with their previous two country pop
albums.
The group was promoting the album when lead
singer Natalie Maines made
controversial comments about U.S. President George W. Bush criticizing his role in the 2003 invasion
of Iraq. The album's third single, "Travelin' Soldier",
was #1 on the Billboard Country Chart the week that Maines' comments hit the press. The following week, as
many stations started a still-standing boycott of the Chicks' music, the song
collapsed. None
of their following singles gained traction with country radio. Despite
these events, the album was certified 6× Multi-platinum status
by the RIAA and has sold
5,979,000 copies in the United States up to November 2008. The album also
featured a cover of Fleetwood Mac's
"Landslide",
which was their biggest pop crossover hit until 2007, when "Not Ready to Make Nice"
peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The
album was also successful in Australia, in its 175th week in the country charts
it was certified Triple Platinum for shipments of 210,000 copies.
The album was nominated at the 45th Grammy Awards for six awards, including their second attempt for Album of the
Year. The group went home with four in 2003,
including Best Country Album,
Best
Recording Package, Best Country Instrumental Performance for "Lil' Jack Slade", and Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "Long Time Gone".
Additionally, they were nominated for Best
Engineered Album, Non-Classical and Darrell Scott was nominated for Best Country Song for Long Time Gone. Two
years later, they were nominated and won Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal,
this time for "Top
of the World". It debuted at #1 on the Billboard
Top 200 Albums chart and stayed there for four non-consecutive weeks. It also debuted at #1 on the
Billboard Top Country Albums, and stayed there for 12 non-consecutive weeks.
I took my love and I
took it down
I climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills
Well the landslide brought me down
Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love
Can the child within my heart rise above
Can I sail thru the changing ocean tides
Can I handle the seasons of my life
Well, I've been
afraid of changing 'cause I built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Children get older
I'm getting older too
Well...
Well, I've been afraid
of changing 'cause I built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Children get older
I'm getting older, too
Well I'm getting older too
So, take this love
and take it down
Yet if you climb a mountain and ya turn around
And if you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills
Well the landslide brought me down
And if you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills
Well maybe
Well maybe
Well maybe the landslide will bring you down.
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