In September 1999, The Chicks' album Fly debuted straight at number one on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart. It stayed at the top for two weeks. On the same day it also reached the top of the country chart, where it remained for eight weeks in a row. It won a Grammy for Best Country Album and is still described today as the best country record of the decade. American Songwriter ↗
American Songwriter writes that they were the first country act in history to achieve such a debut. More precisely, they were the first country band: a solo artist had done it earlier, when Garth Brooks's Ropin' the Wind debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 in September 1991 as the first country album ever. American Songwriter ↗
The road to that point was longer than is usually remembered. Between 1990 and 1993, the group released three albums on the small label Crystal Clear Sounds, still with the original singer and bassist Laura Lynch. At that time they played more traditional country and bluegrass. After the Sony deal, Lynch left in 1995 and Natalie Maines took her place. American Songwriter ↗
According to American Songwriter, a number of later artists, including Taylor Swift and Ashley McBryde, cite their influence. American Songwriter ↗
SuperMusic.cz has added the lyrics of The Chicks' Not Ready to Make Nice, Wide Open Spaces and Goodbye Earl, and, for Ashley McBryde, One Night Standards and The Devil I Know, among others.
Illustrative photo: The Chicks. Photo: Ron Baker / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
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