Capital Times - Country Radio Here Has No Beef With (Dixie) Chicks

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Capital Times - Country Radio Here Has No Beef With (Dixie) Chicks

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Country Radio Here Has No Beef With Chicks

The Capital Times :: LIFESTYLE :: B1
Friday, February 16, 2007
By Rob Thomas The Capital Times

Just because the Dixie Chicks won five Grammys this week for their "Taking the Long Way" CD, don't expect to hear any music from that album on Madison country radio.

But unlike radio stations in other markets, that's not because WWQM/FM 105.9 ("Q106") or WMAD/FM 96.3 ("Star Country") have any beef with the outspoken trio, particularly singer Natalie Maines' notorious 2003 comment to a London audience that she was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."

In fact, Madison stations are among the few left in the country that still play the Dixie Chicks. But they focus on the trio's earlier, bigger hits, not the songs off the new CD.

Program officials said that, unlike many country radio stations that banned the group from their airwaves following the 2003 controversy, they did play the lead-off single "Not Ready to Make Nice" when it came out last summer. ...

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