The Dixie Chicks are a Grammy Award-winning country music trio that have achieved an unprecedented amount of commercial and critical success, while also weathering a storm of controversy surrounding singer Natalie Maines' comments about President George W. Bush.

The Dixie Chicks released their debut album titled Thank Heavens for Dale Evans in 1990. They have since released seven more albums and 26 singles.

The Dixie Chicks and Natalie Maines were sued for defamation by a man named Terry Hobbs in Arkansas in early December 2008. Hobbs' 8-year-old stepson along with two other boys were murdered in 1993, three teens were convicted. Hobbs claims that "he has lost income" and that his reputation has been damaged due to Maines' continuous insinuations that he played a role in the murders, even though he was never charged or implicated. Hobbs stated, "Maines' claims are so extreme in degree as to be ... atrocious and utterly intolerable."TMZ: Maines Sued for Loud Mouth (December 5, 2008)

• Natalie Maines - Vocals/Guitar
• Emily Robison - Banjo
• Martie Maguire - Fiddle

• 1990: Thank Heavens for Dale Evans
• 1992: Little Ol' Cowgirl
• 1993: Shouldn't a Told You That
• 1998: Wide Open Spaces
• 1999: Fly
• 2002: Home
• 2003: Top of the World Tour: Live
• 2006: Taking the Long Way