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** Photos from the Chicks' first Winfield appearance **

As you may have noticed, I haven't been updating the All-Inclusive Dixie
Chicks Page much lately. But their bluegrass friends still remember the
beautiful sounds they produced back in the "old days", back when the tour
bus was a rickety van, and success meant being able to quit the day jobs.

One of those old-time friends, Leo Eilts of the Santa Fe Trails Bluegrass
Festival (http://www.santafetrails.org/), found some of the pictures from
the Chicks' first appearance at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield,
Kansas. While the Erwin sisters had played there before as teenagers in
Blue Night Express, the 1989 festival was the first time the Dixie Chicks
played the festival as a group. Don Shorock, webmaster of the official and
unofficial Walnut Valley Festival sites, has added three of these pictures
to his "Stage 6 Memories" page, along with Leo's story about the event
(previously published on the All-Inclusive site's Stories page).

Stage 6 - Walnut Valley Festival
http://shorock.com/stage6/

Of course, the pictures aren't glamour shots... they're snapshots of a new
band with a great sound -- one of many such acts at one of the biggest
collections of talent in this hemisphere! But they're a great look back at
the early stages of the Dixie Chicks. From Leo's story of the event:

>When Bob Redford, the festival promoter, came by the next afternoon and
>mentioned that he had an open stage slot if we had someone we wanted to
>put on, I suggested the Dixie Chicks. When I told the girls that I had
>scheduled them on a stage, Laura promptly threw up. When it finally came
>time to play, she was so nervous that my brother and I agreed to go on
>with them and play guitar and bass so that they could concentrate on their
>singing. To my knowledge, that was their first appearance as a band in a
>festival setting.

Enjoy!

--
Robert Brooks / robertb@...
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