Fly (Dixie Chicks album)

Fly
Studio album by Dixie Chicks
Released	August 31, 1999
Recorded	March–June 1999
Genre	Country
Length	48:02
Label	Monument
Producer	Blake Chancey Paul Worley
Dixie Chicks chronology
Wide Open Spaces (1998) Fly (1999) Home (2002)
Singles from Fly
"Ready to Run" Released: June 22, 1999 "Cowboy Take Me Away" Released: November 8, 1999 "Goodbye Earl" Released: February 29, 2000 "Cold Day in July" Released: April 25, 2000 "Without You" Released: August 9, 2000 "If I Fall You're Going Down with Me" Released: February 12, 2001 "Heartbreak Town" Released: June 25, 2001 "Some Days You Gotta Dance" Released: September 29, 2001

Professional ratings
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Source	Rating
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Melodic.net	link
Plugged In	(unfavorable) link
PopMatters	link
Q	link
Robert Christgau	[1]
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Fly is the fifth studio album by American country band Dixie Chicks, released in 1999 (see 1999 in music). 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.^[2] It has sold 8,396,000 copies in the United States as of October 2013.^[3]

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.

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 Erwin, Natalie Maines) – 2:49
8. "Sin Wagon" (Maines, Erwin, Stephony Smith) – 3:41
9. "Without You" (Maines, Eric Silver) – 3:32
10. "Some Days You Gotta Dance" (Troy Johnson, Marshall Morgan) – 2:30
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 Chickin' Wang" – 0:06 (not a song, but a 6 second fading tone)
14. "Let Him Fly" (Patty Griffin) – 3:07

Personnel

Dixie Chicks

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

Additional musicians

• Pat Buchanan — electric guitar
• Blake Chancey — handclapping
• Steve Conn — accordion
• Marcus Hummon — acoustic guitar on "Ready to Run"
• Mike Henderson – electric guitar on "Hole in My Head"
• Dennis Linde — acoustic guitar on "Goodbye Earl"
• Lloyd Maines — steel guitar
• George Marinelli – electric guitar on "Cold Day in July" and "Hello Mr. Heartache"
• Bob Mason – cello
• Terry McMillan — percussion
• John Mock — concertina, bodhrán, tin whistle
• Greg Morrow — drums
• Steve Nathan — Hammond B-3 organ, keyboard
• Michael Rhodes — bass
• Tom Roady – percussion
• Charlie Robison — handclapping
• Matt Rollings — Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards
• Randy Scruggs — acoustic guitar
• Adam Steinberg – acoustic guitar on "Let Him Fly" and "Without You"
• Bryan Sutton — acoustic guitar on "Sin Wagon"
• Alan Umstead – violin
• Catherine Umstead – violin
• Keith Urban — electric guitar on "Some Days You Gotta Dance"
• Billy Joe Walker, Jr. — acoustic guitar on "Ready to Run" and "Without You"
• Paul Worley — acoustic guitar, background vocals

"Iffy harmony" vocals on "Goodbye Earl" performed by the "Do-Wrongs": Blake Chancey, Paul Worley, Charlie Robison.

String section on "Without You"

Strings conducted and arranged by Dennis Burnside.

• Martie Seidel, Carl Gorodetsky, Pamela Sixfin, Lee Larrison, Connie Ellisor, Alan Umstead, David Davidson, Mary Katherine Vanosdale, David Angell, Janet Askey, Karen Winkelman, Cate Myer, Catherine Umstead – violins
• Kris Wilkinson, Jim Grosjean, Gary Vanosdale, Monisa Angell – violas
• Bob Mason, John Catchings – cellos

Production

• Producers: Blake Chancey, Paul Worley
• Engineers: Tony Castle, Mark Martin, Chris Rowe, Clarke Schleicher, Billy Sherrill
• Assistant engineer: Tony Castle
• Mixing: John Guess, Patrick Murphy
• Mastering: Denny Purcell
• Assistant mastering engineer: Jonathan Russell
• Editing: Tony Castle
• Arranger: Dennis Burnside
• Art direction: Tracy Baskette-Fleaner, Bill Johnson
• Design: Gina R. Binkley
• Photography: Ed Rode, Albert Sanchez
• Photo consultant: Dari Marder
• Stylist: Renee Fowler
• Hair stylists: Jennifer Davis, Alex Dizon, Daniel Erdman, Melanie Shelley, Michael Silva
• Make-up: Debra Ferullo, Stacey Martin, Maital Sabbon

Charts and certification

Awards

Grammy Awards

See also

• List of best-selling albums in the United States

References