Early Dixie Chicks

[swandown]

I first got into bluegrass music when I heard the original Dixie Chicks back in the early '90s (way before they got famous, fired the original lead singers, and went pop). When I saw MAS in concert the other night I was reminded of some of those early Dixie Chicks songs....especially a song from their first album called I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart (which was actually a revival of a song from the 1930s).

So I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that NC has performed I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart in concert before!!

I highly recommend The Dixie Chicks' 1990 album Thank Heavens For Dale Evans -- fans of Nickel Creek would enjoy it immensely, I think.

[Jimmie]

Originally posted by swandown ....especially a song from their first album called I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart (which was actually a revival of a song from the 1930s).

So I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that NC has performed I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart in concert before!!
I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart was the first ever million-selling record by a solo woman in country music, Patsy Montana. It was a VERY major hit in the 1930s.

http://www.patsymontana.net/pages.php?page=02/12/09/4637411

http://www.kidsonline.com/music/sound-sample.jsp?format=wm&id=2855732

Nickel Creek recorded it on their first album. It's one of my favorite cuts from that CD - hearing eleven year old Sara doing her singing yodeling is an absolutely amazing experience!

http://www.choochoorecords.com/sweeth.ram

There have been many other recorded versions - one of my favorites is from Suzy Boggus, on her first album.

[VEGETA_crazee]

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funny you should mention, I know two of them. Sharon Gilcrest lives in santa fe, and Im really good friends with her. theres another, and I met her briefly..lol at oscar blues she was onstage with chris and uncle earl and john paul jones..man tis a small world. chris is such a cool guy..ive had the pleasure of gettin to know him pretty well. and all of nickel creek. but, ill tell sharon she has a fan!