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"Goodbye Earl" is a country murder ballad written by Dennis Linde. Initially recorded by the band Sons of the Desert for an unreleased album in the late 1990s, the song gained fame when it was recorded by Dixie Chicks on their fifth studio album , Fly .
The Chicks (formerly the Dixie Chicks) are an American country band from Dallas, Texas. The band consists of Natalie Maines (lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar) and sisters Martie Maguire (vocals, fiddle, mandolin, guitar) and Emily Strayer (vocals, guitar, banjo, Dobro). Martie and Emily, both née Erwin, founded the band in 1989, with bassist ...
The Chicks (formerly known as the Dixie Chicks) are an American country music band composed of Natalie Maines, along with Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire, who are sisters. Their discography comprises eight studio albums , two live albums and 28 singles .
Formerly known as the Dixie Chicks, the Chicks' newest album is a scathing expose of their personal lives that proves the trio are still not ready to make nice. Much of the album, titled ...
The Dixie Chicks single "Landslide", a Fleetwood Mac cover, fell from number 10 to 43 on the Billboard Hot 100 in one week and left the chart a week later. [4] The Dixie Chicks were blacklisted by many country radio stations, [6] including all 42 country stations operated by Cumulus Media. [9]
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. [ 2 ]
Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines has filed for divorce from her husband of 17 years, Adrian Pasdar, TMZ reports.
The first rendition to be issued as a single was by the Chicks, then known as the Dixie Chicks, who recorded the song for their third major label album Home (2002). It was released as the third single from the album on December 9, 2002. The group performed the song before its release at the 2001 Country Music Association Awards.