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Released
  
August 31, 1999

Length
  
48:02

Fly (1999)
  
Home (2002)

Release date
  
31 August 1999

Recorded
  
March–June 1999

Label
  
Monument

Artist
  
Dixie Chicks

Genre
  
Country music

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Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Country Album

Producers
  
Blake Chancey, Paul Worley

Similar
  
Dixie Chicks albums, Country music albums

Ready to run by the dixie chicks


Fly is the fifth studio album by American country band Dixie Chicks, released in 1999. The album was very successful for the group, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It has received diamond status by the RIAA on June 25, 2002 in the United States, for shipments of 10 million units.

Contents

The tracks "Ready to Run", "Cowboy Take Me Away", "Without You", "Goodbye Earl", "Cold Day in July", "Heartbreak Town", "Some Days You Gotta Dance" and "If I Fall You're Going Down with Me" were all released as singles; "Sin Wagon" also charted without officially being released. "Some Days You Gotta Dance" was previously recorded by The Ranch, a short-lived country trio founded by Keith Urban in the late 1990s. Urban plays guitar on the Dixie Chicks' rendition.

The album earned 4 Grammy nominations in 2000, and the group won 2: Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for Ready to Run and Best Country Album. It was also nominated for Album of the Year and the writers of Ready to Run, Marcus Hummon and Martie Seidel were nominated for Best Country Song.

Dixie chicks ready to run lyrics


Track listing

  1. "Ready to Run" (Marcus Hummon, Martie Seidel) – 3:52
  2. "If I Fall You're Going Down with Me" (Matraca Berg, Annie Roboff) – 3:05
  3. "Cowboy Take Me Away" (Seidel, Hummon) – 4:51
  4. "Cold Day in July" (Richard Leigh) – 5:12
  5. "Goodbye Earl" (Dennis Linde) – 4:19
  6. "Hello Mr. Heartache" (Mike Henderson, John Hadley) – 3:49
  7. "Don't Waste Your Heart" (Emily Robison, Natalie Maines) – 2:49
  8. "Sin Wagon" (Maines, Robison, Stephony Smith) – 3:37
  9. "Without You" (Maines, Eric Silver) – 3:32
  10. "Some Days You Gotta Dance" (Troy Johnson, Marshall Morgan) – 2:27
  11. "Hole in My Head" (Jim Lauderdale, Buddy Miller) – 3:22
  12. "Heartbreak Town" (Darrell Scott) – 3:53*
  13. "ain't no thang but a chicken wang" – 0:01*
  14. "Let Him Fly" (Patty Griffin) – 3:07

Note

  • Track 13 is unlisted on the back cover and disc, though it is listed as "ain't no thang but a chicken wang" in the booklet. On some pressings of the CD, "Heartbreak Town" lasts 3:47 on track 12 and fades into track 13, which plays the last six seconds of the song. On other pressings of the CD, track 12 lasts for the full 3:53 seconds, and track 13 contains no audio, only lasting for 0:01. Digital versions of the album remove the blank track completely, bumping "Let Him Fly" up to track 13.

    • Personnel

    Compiled from liner notes.

    Dixie Chicks

  • Natalie Maines — lead vocals, background vocals, handclapping
  • Emily Robison — acoustic guitar, banjo, Dobro, vocals, handclapping, lap steel guitar
  • Martie Seidel — fiddle, mandolin, viola, background vocals

    • String section on "Without You"

  • Strings conducted and arranged by Dennis Burnside.
  • Violins – Martie Seidel, Carl Gorodetsky, Pamela Sixfin, Lee Larrison, Connie Ellisor, Alan Umstead, David Davidson, Mary Katherine Van Osdale, David Angell, Janet Askey, Karen Winkelman, Cate Myer, Catherine Umstead
  • Violas – Kris Wilkinson, Jim Grosjean, Gary Van Osdale, Monisa Angell
  • Cellos – Bob Mason, John Catchings

    • Additional musicians

    Production

    Accolades

    Grammy Awards

    Songs

    1Ready to Run3:52
    2If I Fall You're Going Down With Me3:07
    3Cowboy Take Me Away4:53

    References

    Fly (Dixie Chicks album) Wikipedia
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