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Fly (Dixie Chicks album)

Fly
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Studio album by Dixie Chicks
Released August 31, 1999
Recorded March–June 1999
Genre Country
Length 48:02
Label Monument
Producer
Dixie Chicks chronology
Wide Open Spaces
(1998)
Fly
(1999)
Home
(2002)
Singles from Fly
  1. "Ready to Run"
    Released: June 22, 1999
  2. "Cowboy Take Me Away"
    Released: November 8, 1999
  3. "Goodbye Earl"
    Released: February 29, 2000
  4. "Cold Day in July"
    Released: April 25, 2000
  5. "Without You"
    Released: August 9, 2000
  6. "If I Fall You're Going Down with Me"
    Released: February 12, 2001
  7. "Heartbreak Town"
    Released: June 25, 2001
  8. "Some Days You Gotta Dance"
    Released: September 29, 2001
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 5/5 stars link
Entertainment Weekly A− link
Melodic.net 2/5 stars link
Plugged In (unfavorable) link
PopMatters 8/10 stars link
Q 4/5 stars link
Robert Christgau (3-star Honorable Mention)
Rolling Stone 3.5/5 stars link

Fly is the fifth studio album by American country band Dixie Chicks, released in 1999. 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.

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.

Note

Compiled from liner notes.

Dixie Chicks

String section on "Without You"

Additional musicians

Production

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

Grammy Awards


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