The Long Way Around

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The Long way Around"

Single by Dixie Chicks
from the album Taking the Long Way
Released	2006 (North America)
Format	Digital download Radio airplay
Genre	Country–pop
Length	4:33
Label	Columbia Records
Writer(s)	M. Maguire, N. Maines, E. Robison, D. Wilson
Producer(s)	Rick Rubin
Chart positions
#21 (Canada Jam! Hits 100) #1 (Canada Jam! Country Songs) #48 (U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs)
Dixie Chicks singles chronology
"Everybody Knows" (2006)	"The Long Way Around" (2006)	"The Neighbor" (2007)

"The Long Way Around" is a country–pop song written and recorded by the American all-female trio Dixie Chicks for their seventh studio album, Taking the Long Way (2006). The song was released as the third physical single from the album in late 2006. On December 8, it was elected the 20th best song of 2006 by the Rolling Stone magazine. ^[1]

1 Song information
- 1.1 Comments about the song by band members
2 Chart performance
3 References

[edit] Song information

The song is the opening track of Taking the Long Way and provides the album its title, which derives from the chorus. The song, just like "Not Ready to Make Nice", also refers to the controversy Natalie Maines caused when she said that the band is ashamed that the United States President George W. Bush is from their home-state of Texas. It also refers to the feud Maines had with fellow country singer Toby Keith.

[edit] Comments about the song by band members

This is what band members Emily and Natalie commented about the writing process of the song ^[2]:

Emily: "That's a journey song, about the different stages in our lives. A recap of where we've been, where we're going - and it was nice to remind ourselves of all that."

Natalie: "We've always written songs that are about other people. It's so much harder to put yourself out there and be honest with your emotions and your beliefs, but the songs are so much better and mean so much more when you can let yourself be vulnerable."