In January 1998, The Chicks released their major-label debut Wide Open Spaces. This was their first album with Natalie Maines as lead vocalist, and her bright, steely voice alongside the three-part ...

Songwriter Susan Gibson wrote the song "Wide Open Spaces" after moving away for college and trying to express to her mother that she needed room to make her big mistakes. She needed new faces. She ...

The Chicks, an all female country band from Dallas, have been singing about girlhood since 1989. They sing about concepts women are all too familiar with, for better or worse — relationships, dreams ...