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There's Your Trouble: Considering the Dixie Chicks controversy, with hindsight 20/20

Holly Gleason, No Depression, 23 May 2017

IT WAS EARLY 2003. The Dixie Chicks were easily the biggest girl group in history — and also the biggest act in country music post–Garth Brooks. Fresh from guesting on Saturday Night Live, with the United States on the brink of sending troops to Iraq, the multiplatinum blondes flew to London to begin their Top of the World tour.

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