The Dixie Chicks have been favorites of mine for years...and when Natalie Maines stood up in front of an audience overseas on the "eve of war" against Iraq and said she was embarrassed to be from the same place as George W. Bush, I felt she showed more courage than most of the politicians in America who didn't have the balls to come out against tyrannical rule and mis-aligned judgement about going to war in there.
Yet somehow the three girls managed to summon enough guts and cajones to make it through one of the most rage-filled hate mongering times in the history of music in America when a few jingoistic country western fans went off the chain and participated in a boycott - some even sent hate mail threatening their lives - against the band who spoke their minds.
This documentary follows The Chicks through the time after the words were spoken through the first concert after and throughout the time afterwards where some fans that had gone started coming to their senses and realizing their mistake. Ironically, I watched this on CMT. I bet they still get letters about showing something like this, but frankly, I think hindsight being what it is, they feel a little beholden to the girls who bravely spoke the truth and stood behind one another when lesser groups of people would have sold each other down the river.
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