Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing

2006
US
99 min
15

Directed by: Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck
Cast: Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire, Emily Robison
Website: www.myspace.com/shutupandsing

A rockumentary following the Chicks over three tumultuous years, after an off-the-cuff remark at a concert in London in 2003 about being ashamed of President Bush coming from their home-state of Texas, saw them blacklisted by the media, country radio stations and their core redneck fans. A searing indictment of 9/11's effect on free speech and some self-promotion for the spunky musicians.

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Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing

2 Jul 2007

When the lead singer of the Dixie Chicks made an off-the-cuff remark at a concert in London in 2003 about the band being ashamed of President Bush coming from their home-state Texas, there’s no way they could have foreseen themselves being subjected to…

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