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A tired old song.
WHAT do Jimmy Carter and the Dixie Chicks have in common? They're southerners who've traded "up" on their southernness. They hit their best moments long ago, but have ridden positive press far beyond their natural shelf life. They think a lot of themselves. Good teeth. What else, what else ...? Oh, right--they're all 2007 Grammy winners!
Jimmy Carter won the Grammy for the Best Spoken Word Album of 2006, sharing the honor with actress Ruby Dee. Carter and Dee beat out nominees Al Franken and Bill Maher for this year's Grammy. Yet Carter isn't the first ex-president to win this cutthroat competition. Bill Clinton actually won two Grammys back to back in 2004 and 2005, the first for his memoirs, My Life, sharing the second with Mikhail Gorbachev in the coveted Best Spoken Word Album for Children category.
In 1997, Clinton's wife of record, Hillary, won a Grammy for reading aloud her book It Takes a Village; last year that honor went to Barack Obama for his memoirs. In 2004, Franken won for his book Lying Liars, and the year before that Maya Angelou won her third Grammy in the category. Other winners include Jesse Jackson and Garrison Keillor.
But let me stop you right there. Politics has nothing to do with the selection process. This was a straightforward judgment based solely on merit, damn it. So if you're listening, Ted Kennedy, you'd better bring your A-game if you hope to beat the likes of Rush Limbaugh!
Which brings me to the Greatest Band of All Time. The Dixie Chicks won five Grammys in the Stick It to the Fascists category, including for their ...
- COUNCIL STAYS CLEAR OF DIXIE CHICKS INSTEAD, IT VOTES TO SUPPORT RIGHT OF...
- Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) April 9, 2003 700+ words
...proposal supporting the Dixie Chicks, who have been maligned for criticizing President Bush. Instead, the council...doesn't mention the Dixie Chicks, the Grammy Award...to the defense of the Dixie Chicks because the destruction...
- DIXIE (CHICKS) AND MADISON.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI) April 9, 2003 700+ words
After the lead singer of the Dixie Chicks criticized President Bush, the Old South's conservative chattering...We would have liked to see them stick by the Dixie Chicks -- and stick it to the Dixiecrats. CAPTION...
- NOT READY TO MAKE SALES, EITHER?\ BOX OFFICE NOT SO BOFFO FOR BUSH-BASHING...
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) June 10, 2006 700+ words
...programmers who had criticized the Dixie Chicks for a jab at President Bush on the eve of the war in...Waddell noted that the Dixie Chicks' tour has been the toughest...record and the quality of the Dixie Chicks as performers, it should...
- Local country fans still vocal about Dixie Chicks.
- Newspaper article from: Portales News-Tribune (Portales, NM) June 8, 2006 700+ words
...three years ago that Dixie Chicks' lead singer Natalie Maines insulted President Bush and many country music...the Long Way," the Dixie Chicks remain a source of controversy...feelings toward the Dixie Chicks and Maines in particular...
- DIXIE CHICKS NOT TRUE TO COUNTRY MUSIC.(Editorial)(Column)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) May 6, 2003 700+ words
...Syndicated columnist For the Dixie Chicks, life just isn't fair...The lead singer of the Dixie Chicks makes a stray insult of President Bush, and the group's radio...apology later. What the Dixie Chicks forgot is that, as country...
- These Chicks fall prey to radio's hawks. (Editor's Notebook).(radio stations...
- Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal Bell, Rick March 24, 2003 700+ words
...stunts, but banning the Dixie Chicks from the airwaves ranks...case you missed it, Dixie Chicks' lead singer Natalie Maines criticized President Bush in front of an audience...could find with the Dixie Chicks' name on it. If that...
- Stations still tuning out Dixie Chicks: Country act gets static even from...
- Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) December 9, 2006 700+ words
...Three years after attacking President Bush, the Dixie Chicks and country music radio stations...stations turned down ads for Dixie Chicks concerts. Radio companies...the Chicks. "I love the Dixie Chicks' music, but you have to...
- THE NEXT DIXIE CHICKS?(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) April 3, 2003 700+ words
...alternative to the Dixie Chicks, who will be opening...protest remarks that Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines made about President Bush during the European...his concert who have Dixie Chicks tickets will sit in...