Flashback: The Dixie Chicks Are Ashamed of the President… Again — rollingstone.com

It's hard to overstate just how popular the Dixie Chicks were in 2003. With three major-label albums — Wide Open Spaces, Fly and Home — they'd become America's top-selling female group of all time, writing the soundtrack for pretty much everyone who listened to country music during the turn of the 21st century. They could play. They could sing. They could speak their minds. What wasn't to love? During a European promo show for the group's 2003 Top of the World Tour, Natalie Maines took a minute to address the crowd. It was less than two weeks before the invasion of Iraq, and anti-war protests had been breaking out across the globe. One month earlier, more than three million people had attended a protest in Rome, making it the largest anti-war rally in history. The Dixie Chicks sympathized with the protestors.

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