The Dixie Chicks

0:05We got prizes too. There are only two left because I've done a few interviews today. So because we're in Canada, maple syrup butter, kind of like peanut butter, but with maple syrup because it's Canada. And if I remember from the documentary a few years ago you both have young kids. So we went to the War Museum and found some toys. So we've got this little air glider thing. You can throw it off the stage if you want. It's made of rubber. It could be fun later, or you can give it to someone. Whatever you want. So what do we want to play for? And we'll pitch you two against each other. You have boys. So maybe you can give them air. I'll go for that. Good, because I got this one specifically for you guys. I'm glad you chose that one. We have plenty of sweets around. OK. All right. Ladies, one versus the other, courtyard-hound battle. The most popular blues chord progression is known by what? 12-bar blues, 8-bar blues, or 16-bar blues?

0:5112-bar blues. She got it first. I'm sorry. I didn't realize. I thought it was like. You got to be quick on the draw. OK, one nothing. Blackie is the preferred guitar of which modern blues rock legend? B.B. King? No. Want to take a stab? No. You want me to keep going? I'll give you multiple choice. And we'll see who gets it first. Clapton Hendrix or B.B. King? You said B.B. King, didn't you? I said B.B. King. Well, then you already know what's it. Clapton? She gets it because she can. You can say that. I can say that. Who claimed to have sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads? Oh, what? Charlie Daniel. No. I knew you were going to say that. Robert Johnson. Robert Johnson, Q1.

1:37Thank you. Two to a half maybe. I'll give you a half for that one. After the guitar, which instrument is most identified with the blues? Piano? No, everyone says piano. Everyone's been guessing piano. For the tie? Sex fun? No. It's a little tiny one. Oh, harmonica. harmonica. Another half. So you're up to one. There we go. All right, last question. Can you name this blues legend's nickname? His real name is McKinley Morgan Field. This is blues name. BBK. No. The Santa. BBK's got to be in there somewhere. Muddy Waters. Muddy Waters. That's a tie. And I think it's now a tie. Now it's 2-2. Although I've helped you a little bit here.

2:23You've had enough. She's had enough. She wants to talk about Amalina. That's fine. That was actually the last one anyway. So you win the prize. That was a fun game. That's a very, that's a good mom way of saying go home. That's a good one. So is this the first show with the chicks in a while? Am I writing about this? Is it like three years since the last one? No. We get to get at least one seed. We've done some benefits. You know, all the fires in Texas. Right. The Bass drop. We did the fire relief concert at the Irwin Center. So we get together for good causes and for short tours. But Natalie, his record that just came out and our record is coming out as a courtyard hound.

3:09So we're actually so busy with those projects and having so much fun with those projects. We just don't have time to be Dixie chicks very often. Right. But you got a full Canada tour? We love this. It's going across the country. All our fans in the States are kind of peeved at us right now because we've come up here and done these dates. But they just present themselves and our management when they put something to us. If it makes sense, we'll do it. If we're too busy doing something else, then we don't. So it's just there's no rhyme or reason necessary. So how does a setlist work? If this is a Dixie chick show, do you play your songs? Does she play her songs or is it all chicks kings? Honestly, there's so many songs we want to play from our records that we don't have enough time. We're on a strict curfew here at Blue's Bass. So we actually had to cut about six songs from our set.

3:54We are doing a white stripes cover to change it up and do something different. Other than that, we're playing kind of the hits. So Amalita, what can we expect? I know it's a very vague question, but it's coming out in like a week, week and a half, 16th, July 16th. July 16th, yes. Amalita is, you know, sophomore albums are tricky sometimes because you are trying, at least for us, solidify the sound of the band. Who are we? You know, the first album is kind of at toe in the water and then this album, we really wanted to keep all the things that we loved about it and move on from the things that we didn't feel like were our strengths. So we just wrote and wrote and wrote a ton together, a lot more together on this album. And so I think it's a little bit more upbeat.

4:41It's a little bit more hopeful. I'm not going through divorce on this one. Marty was, but she... I'm still hopeful. She's still hopeful. She's still hopeful. It's good outlook. I like that. Nothing can bring me down. So it's a little bit more fun upbeat record. When you say sophomore record, it makes me think like you guys have this huge success as Dixie Chicks and then start over, did it feel like starting over? Is it a rebirth of sorts as this new band? Because the fans will still kind of be a little bit of crossover. Right. I felt like it was just going into unknown territory. You know, almost like we knew what we had with the Dixie Chicks and that was great. But just to, you know, when you reach that age, just 40 or something where you just want to push yourself and go, you know what? I've never, you know, skydived or climbed a mountain or whatever.

5:27You know, Emily had never suddenly. And I was probably her biggest fan pushing her and going, I really think you need to sing these songs because on the first record she'd written them and they were really personal. And I just, I think you're fans. They have a hard time when you change things up a lot like this at first. But then, I don't know, you just have to do it for yourself and for your creativity to keep it going. Sometimes you get a little stagnant. And I think we were in a way. And we wanted to kind of go into uncharted territory. It sounds like you did again with this record a little bit. Yeah. I mean, I think we brought along with us all the things we learned along the way. So it's not really starting over because you have this amazing Rolodex of people that you can call and I don't know, these Rolodex like so antiquated these days, you know.

6:14Some sort of phone program. Showing my app. Of sorts. Yeah, some, some app with everybody's name in it. But, you know, I think, but at the same time, you know, your budget's back to square one and you have to say, okay, we can go out and we can do this, but we can't do that. You know, you have to just basically start over as a business, which is difficult sometimes. Right. I know you're busy. So we do some called five questions. Five quick questions, one word answers. I don't know if you like my games, but we do that. I was going back to the fresh air. I don't like the fresh air. It still has me my times tables. No, I would be good at those. Everyone I've ever interviewed gets these five questions. Rode or studio? Rode. Rode. Leninger McCartney. McCartney. Lening. When you hear a song, it usually hits you first. Lyric's Melody or Rhythm?

7:01Melody. Melody, probably. A song you've written your most proud of. I kind of want to change that one up. People are having difficulty with it. So you, you, I usually one of the newer ones. Amalita is, I feel like is really what we're in some. Okay. I'm going to try guinea pig one out because this is going to be my switch up instead of song you've written your most proud of is if someone's new to courtyard hounds, what song do they start with? Sunshine. Sunshine. In one word, courtyard hounds. Sister Lood. Two words and that's gross. I was not even going there and that's where you went.

7:47Oh my. I'm sorry. We went around the road or mine. We went through three days and it worked. You're a little bit patient. You have an answer? You're going to go with Sister Love as well. Oh. That's bad. I don't know. I don't know. She threw me off. I thought it was a really sweet answer and you went in a very different direction. No, I know. I thought it was like, because that is, I think that's the most surprising fun thing about this band is we've always been sidemen with somebody else in the middle from the beginning and now it's kind of getting to know each other in a way. It's cool. We have another sister too and she's very jealous of all the time we get to spend together because we write songs together, we work together, our kids get to play together all the time.

8:35Thanks ladies. Sister Love. I'll take each title for the next record. I think, well not with the mind this one has. She's going to be giggling every time she signs a CD or something. What were some of the band names that popped up when you were fucking in the sister's female? We could come up with a band name. There are these websites that you can get. Like a little tag name generator. You can just put in a few adjectives and it will generate this. I don't remember what I put in but it came up with sexy jamboree. That's good too. We could have been sexy jamboree. It was hit the porn name generator? What were you all about?

9:20Sexy jamboree. I know. I think that you put female in and that's what they come back with. It's not like we were describing ourselves. This went to places I didn't expect it to but I'm really happy we went there. Sorry. I'm in a great mood.