Chick Heroes

by digby

You’ve all probably seen the ads on the important blogs about this new Dixie Chicks movie “Shut Up and Sing.” I haven’t seen it but I’ll be going as soon as the movie opens because I’m very anxious to see their story (told by a master documentary filmmaker like Barbara Kopple, too.) I wrote last summer about my experience when I first heard their song “I’m Not Ready To Make Nice” and I still get a little chill whenever I hear it.

The Chicks have more money than God and they can afford to completely drop out of music if they wanted to, but that doesn’t diminish the courage it took for them to defy their fans and their audience and stand on their principles. They are country artists, from deep in Red Country and what they did — and continue to do — is the essence of patriotism. At cost to themselves they are standing up for the right to speak out against your government. I think they are heroes and I hope their movie is an inspiration and solace to those who’ve been out here shouting into the void about what’s been going on in our country and our culture for the last decade or so.

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