Taking the Long Way.
| Dixie Chicks
Taking the Long Way.
Taking the Long Way is the seventh (and so far most recent) studio album by the Dixie Chicks, an American country music band. It was released on May 23, 2006, in the U.S. and on June 12, 2006, worldwide. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. It sold over 2.5 million copies in the U.S., being certified 2x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America as of July 11, 2007. It won 5 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year in February 2007. -Wikipedia
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Slant Magazine
And for as boring and poorly constructed as the music on Taking the Long Way is, the album truly isn’t about anything more than the Dixie Chicks’ open contempt for both the genre of music that first provided them with a voice and for the audience that responded strongly enough to that voice to make the Dixie Chicks A-list music stars.
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A.V. Club Music
Dixie Chicks have won almost as many supporters as enemies with their anti-Bush comments, but the new brood likely won't stick around unless the music becomes as impassioned as the rhetoric.
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Sputnik Music
The Dixie Chicks fire back at all the people and events that had made their lives hell for the past few years, resulting in an emotional, yet catchy musical experience.
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My Kind of Country
The group's most devoted fans will truly enjoy this record.
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Entertainment Weekly
On Taking the Long Way, most of that dichotomy vanishes along with quaint mandolin solos. Finally, they put their music where their opinionated mouths are.
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The Guardian
The results abandon predecessor Home's bluegrass influences for a buffed, vaguely country-ish AOR.
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Music OMH
The girls are tackling issues important to them and for that they deserve commendation. But the record’s downfall ultimately is twofold. Too long and musically too conservative, it feels like a change of music style and a sharper focus on what they want to achieve might suit Dixie Chicks well.
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PopMatters
Now here's a girl who knows her way around her music history. Frankly, country could stand to listen to her.
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BBC Music
This is an album that obviously needed to be made, and while it may not fit squarely with the Nashville crowd it will undoubtedly win them far more support in homes not used to the ironies of Music City. Long may they go their own way.
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All Music
But this lack of zest in the production is forgivable because Taking the Long Way is otherwise a strong, confident affair that is far from suggesting the Dixie Chicks are being cowardly for moving away from country. Rather, they're bravely asserting their identity through this varied, successful crossover move.
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No Depression
They can go where they want to go, short or long way around, and these often smashing results suggest it’s a worthwhile excursion.
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Daily Vault
This latest test of character for the Dixie Chicks seems to have earned them the same grade from the music-buying public as from this reviewer.
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Entertainment Focus
The Long Way Round is a defiant response to being asked to recant Maines’ controversial remarks, the acoustic-led Easy Silence is an ode to a lover that offers comfort in the midst of turmoil, and Everyone Knows deals with pushing on while being under intense scrutiny.
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Austin Chronicle
With The Long Way Around, the Chicks haven't turned a corner as much as locked horns with their recent past, their spirituality and spunk intact, heroines on the side of truth.
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