Dixie Chicks drop ‘Dixie’ from title: fulfill The Chicks

“We want to fulfill this second,” read a assertion on The Chicks’ web page, which also observed that the trio acknowledges the identify was presently in use by a band in New Zealand.

“A sincere and heartfelt thank you goes out to ‘The Chicks’ of NZ for their gracious gesture in permitting us to share their identify. We are honoured to co-exist jointly in the environment with these exceptionally talented sisters.”

Dixie is frequently utilised as a nostalgic expression or nickname, referencing a romanticized portrait of the Civil War-era Southern United States.

The Chicks, established to release their to start with new album in 14 several years following thirty day period, also shared a audio online video for their most recent track, March March. It capabilities movies and images from different demonstrations and protests over the several years, like rallies in guidance of homosexual legal rights, demanding action on local climate modify and people from anti-Black racism and in aid of Black Life Subject throughout the world.

The Chicks’ identify modify comes soon after a new decision by region team Lady Antebellum to proceed as Woman A, right after acknowledging the word’s association to the pre-Civil War time period in the United States and to slavery. 

The group — comprising Dave Haywood, Hillary Scott and Charles Kelley — was rapidly criticized when it emerged that Anita White, a Black funk, gospel and soul singer primarily based in Seattle, has been executing as Lady A for far more than two a long time.