Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
Dixie Chicks Shut Up and Sing also known simply as Shut Up and Sing is a 2006 documentary film produced and directed by director Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck daughter of actor Gregory Peck.
The film opens during the Dixie Chicks 2003 Top of the World Tour, discussing the Dixie Chicks superstar status prior the incident at their London show. They had sold more albums in the United States than any other female band in history. With the release of their 2002 album Home, they were again at the top of the Billboard Charts. The new single from that album Travelin Soldier, a sensitive depiction of a soldiers life during the Vietnam War era, and the young woman who waited for him, finding he was killed in battle, had peaked aton the US Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart.The film then cuts to a scene from the Dixie Chicks March 10, 2003 concert at the Shepherds Bush Empire Theatre in London, England. The atmosphere in the European audience is of dramatic opposition to the announcement from United States President George W. Bushs authorization of the invasion of Iraq. Approximatelymillion people had recently demonstrated in London against the impending war. During the introduction to their song Travelin Soldier, Natalie Maines, a Texas native, says ........
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