Home (Remaster) The Chicks

• 1 Long Time Gone 04:08
• 2 Landslide 03:49
• 3 Travelin' Soldier 05:43
• 4 Truth No. 2 04:28
• 5 White Trash Wedding 02:19
• 6 A Home 04:56
• 7 More Love 05:06
• 8 I Believe in Love 04:13
• 9 Tortured, Tangled Hearts 03:39
• 10 Lil' Jack Slade 02:23
• 11 Godspeed (Sweet Dreams) 04:42
• 12 Top of the World 06:03
• Total Runtime 51:29

Info for Home (Remaster)

For their third album „Home“, The Chicks went back to their bluegrass roots in crafting a record fired in the kiln of recent motherhood and a highly publicized legal battle with their label. Recorded under the gentle hand of producer Lloyd Maines (front Chick Natalie's pop), these dozen cuts are devoid of any Nashville gloss and are instead steeped in the organic harmonies and twang of recent releases by Nickel Creek and Dolly Parton. With sisters Marty Maguire and Emily Robison providing instrumental support on fiddle and banjo respectively, The Chicks are equally at home ripping through the runaway breakdown 'White Trash Wedding' as they are tapping into heartfelt compositions by Radney Foster ('Godspeed [Sweet Dreams]') and Patty Griffin ('Top Of The World'). With pop sensibilities that are never too far from the surface, it's no surprise that this talented trio would do such a fine job covering Fleetwood Mac's 'Landslide' and giving it the kind of shimmering treatment sure to put a smile on Stevie Nicks's face. Despite the duress the Dixie Chicks were toiling under, HOME proves that from turmoil comes stellar creative effort.

„Home“ was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Album Of The Year, Best Recording Package and Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical). 'Long Time Gone' was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Country Song.

„Delivering a successor to their breakthrough smash Wide Open Spaces was easy -- Fly followed a year afterward, sounding sleek and satisfying. Following that album turned out to be a little more difficult for The Chicks, not least because they were involved in an ugly battle with their record company over royalties. While they were away, country radio grew stricter, but there were undercurrents of change, particularly in the grassroots success of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. The Chicks always had deep country roots, but it was entirely conceivable that they could have chosen the pop route, since it's always the safest bet for established stars to follow the mainstream -- especially after they have been away for a while. Fortunately, one thing this trio has never been is predictable, and they were emboldened by their successful battle with the label, along with the O Brother, leading to the stunner that is Home, their sixth album. There may be a Stevie Nicks cover here, but there are no concessions to pop anywhere; there are hardly any electric guitars, actually. This is a pure country album, loaded with fiddles, acoustic guitars, and close harmonies, but retaining The Chicks' signature flair, sense of humor, and personality. It's a vibrant, quirky, heartfelt record that finds the group investing as much in a funny, rollicking number like 'White Trash Wedding' or something as sadly sweet as 'Godspeed (Sweet Dreams).' But the key to the album is that, as they so brilliantly put it on the wonderful opener, 'Long Time Gone,' they recognize many modern country singers 'sound tired but they don't sound Haggard' and 'have money but they don't have Cash' -- and this is a sentiment that doesn't just apply to those riding the charts, but to the po-faced alt-country contenders who are too serious to have fun. They deftly balance modern attitudes with classic instrumentation, all built on terrific songwriting, winding up with an album that feels purer than anything on the charts, yet much livelier and genuine than alt-country. This is what country music in 2002 should sound like. With Home, The Chicks illustrate that country music should be simple but adventurous, sincere but fun. In doing so, they've delivered not just their best album, but what's arguably the best country album yet released in the 2000s. Needless to say, an instant classic.“ (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)

Martie Maguire, fiddle, mandolin, viola, vocals
Natalie Maines, vocals
Emily Robison, banjo, Dobro, accordion, vocals, papoose
Additional musicians:
Glenn Fukunaga, bass
Emmylou Harris, vocals
Byron House, bass
Lloyd Maines, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, Papoose guitar
John Mock, percussion, bodhrán, uilleann pipes, tin whistle
Sara Nelson, cello
Paul Pearcy, percussion
Adam Steffey, mandolin
Bryan Sutton, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, Papoose guitar
Chris Thile, mandolin, soloist

Produced by The Chicks, Lloyd Maines

Digitally remastered

The Chicks
(Dixie Chick) was formed in 1989 and is well-known for their contemporary country music. In America, they became the highest-selling female group. Their album “Wide Open Spaces” was launched in 1998 where they have been noted to keep the balance of different genres – aesthetic country pop and neo-traditionalist country.

The Dixie Chicks broke through big beginning in 1998 with hit songs “There’s Your Trouble” and “Wide Open Spaces.” Country superstars The Dixie Chicks are composed of founding members (and sisters) Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Erwin Robison, and lead singer Natalie Maines. As of 2012, the Dixie Chicks had won 13 Grammy Awards, including five in 2007 for Taking the Long Way—which received the Grammy Award for Album of the Year—and “Not Ready to Make Nice”, a single from that album.

By February 2013, with 30.5 million certified albums sold, and sales of 27 million albums in the U.S. alone, they had become the top selling all-female band, and biggest selling country group in the U.S. during the Nielsen SoundScan era which is from 1991 to present.

More recently by December 2015, The Dixie Chicks had 30.5 million certified albums, with sales of 27.5 million albums in the U.S. alone. This meant that they had become the top selling all-female band and biggest-selling country group in the U.S. during 1991 to present day. The following year, in 2016, The Dixie Chicks went on tour with the DCX MMXVI World Tour which commenced in April in Belgium and finished in Canada in April 2017.

This album contains no booklet.