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The Court Yard Hounds tour, with just Emily and Martie, has come and gone -- and
for reasons that are open to rampant speculation, it spawned a mini Dixie Chicks
tour as well. It's still status quo so far, with both the Dixie Chicks and
Court Yard Hounds remaining active on Twitter and email, and probably other
social media outlets I just haven't had time to keep up with. Generally, the
two sides of the coin echo each other, with "DCX" messages touting "CYH" events
and vice versa.

But the latest message came with an intriguing subject: "More from the Dixie
Chicks Archives!" Here's the info from the CYH email:

Live Chat Tomorrow with More from the Dixie Chicks Archives!

If you missed the last Live from HEK broadcast, you missed old Dixie Chicks
Japanese performances, Emily's now infamous moonwalk, an old school DCX
McDonald's commercial, and Martie and Emily donning wrestling masks and holding
a match right there in the studio! Tune in tomorrow, May 3rd at 8:30pm ET/7:30pm
CT to catch the next LIVE chat and see what else they dig up from the archives
to share with you. They'll also be answering your questions which you can leave
here or on Facebook!

(end snip)


There's a link (I'll include it below) to the April 19 chat, which I haven't had
a chance to view in its entirety because it's 30 minutes long. But it starts
with with the Dixie Chicks' 1996 "Country Sunshine" TV broadcast from Japan,
less than a year after Natalie's arrival in the group in October 1995. It's a
transition period -- they're still performing their signature Western/Bluegrass
mix and wearing the cowgirl frills that Natalie would later reject in favor of
the Shania Twain look.

I'll be watching the videos -- the April one and tomorrow's -- in hopes that
their trip through the archives will at least include some acknowledgements of
the band's roots in the early 90s, the three albums they cut before Natalie
joined, and founding members Robin Lynn Macy and Laura Lynch. But even if it
doesn't go that far back, the Erwin sisters' willingness to look back at their
Cowgirl past is a welcome departure from the Sony Corporate santitized image
they projected when they hit big.

Links:

Court Yard Hounds website
http://www.courtyardhounds.com/

Blog entry about upcoming chat:
http://www.courtyardhounds.com/us/news/next-live-chat-tues-may-3rd

April 19 Live Chat on Court Yard Hounds
http://socuteurl.com/yappysleeping

Twitter links:
http://twitter.com/#!/courtyardhounds
http://twitter.com/#!/dixiechicks

My own Twitter link -- mostly Karaoke, with occasional Dixie Chicks notes
http://twitter.com/#!/tequila_k

And while the dixie-chicks.com site remains sadly behind, I'll post this note
and further updates on my Tequila Karaoke blog:
http://www.tequikalaraoke.com/

--
Robert Brooks / dcnospam@...
http://www.tequilakaraoke.com/ - I'd sing all night if they'd let me
http://www.dixie-chicks.com/ - Before they were famous

"I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness,
but you are already doing that..." - 2 Cor 11:1