Fly (Dixie Chicks album)

Fly
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
SourceRating
Allmusic link
Entertainment WeeklyA− link
Melodic.net link
Plugged In(unfavorable) link
PopMatters link
Q link
Robert Christgau[1]
Rolling Stone 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.[2] It has sold 8,396,000 copies in the United States as of October 2013.[3]

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.

Track listing

  1. "Ready to Run" (Marcus Hummon, Martie Seidel) – 3:52
  2. "If I Fall You're Going Down with Me" (Matraca Berg, Annie Roboff) – 3:05
  3. "Cowboy Take Me Away" (Seidel, Hummon) – 4:51
  4. "Cold Day in July" (Richard Leigh) – 5:12
  5. "Goodbye Earl" (Dennis Linde) – 4:19
  6. "Hello Mr. Heartache" (Mike Henderson, John Hadley) – 3:49
  7. "Don't Waste Your Heart" (Emily Robison, Natalie Maines) – 2:49
  8. "Sin Wagon" (Maines, Robison, Stephony Smith) – 3:37
  9. "Without You" (Maines, Eric Silver) – 3:32
  10. "Some Days You Gotta Dance" (Troy Johnson, Marshall Morgan) – 2:27
  11. "Hole in My Head" (Jim Lauderdale, Buddy Miller) – 3:22
  12. "Heartbreak Town" (Darrell Scott) – 3:53*
  13. "ain't no thang but a chicken wang" – 0:01*
  14. "Let Him Fly" (Patty Griffin) – 3:07

*Note: Track 13 is unlisted on the back cover and disc, though it is listed as "ain't no thang but a chicken wang" in the booklet. On some pressings of the CD, "Heartbreak Town" lasts 3:47 on track 12 and fades into track 13, which plays the last six seconds of the song. On other pressings of the CD, track 12 lasts for the full 3:53 seconds, and track 13 contains no audio, only lasting for 0:01. Digital versions of the album remove the blank track completely, bumping "Let Him Fly" up to track 13.

Personnel

Compiled from liner notes.[4]

Dixie Chicks
Additional musicians

"Iffy harmony" vocals on "Goodbye Earl" performed by the "Do-Wrongs": Blake Chancey, Paul Worley, Charlie Robison.
String section on "Without You"

Strings conducted and arranged by Dennis Burnside.

  • Violins – Martie Seidel, Carl Gorodetsky, Pamela Sixfin, Lee Larrison, Connie Ellisor, Alan Umstead, David Davidson, Mary Katherine Van Osdale, David Angell, Janet Askey, Karen Winkelman, Cate Myer, Catherine Umstead
  • Violas – Kris Wilkinson, Jim Grosjean, Gary Van Osdale, Monisa Angell
  • Cellos – Bob Mason, John Catchings
Production
  • Producers: Blake Chancey, Paul Worley
  • Engineers: Tony Castle, Mark Martin, Chris Rowe, Clarke Schleicher, Billy Sherrill
  • Assistant engineer: Tony Castle
  • Mixing: John Guess, Patrick Murphy
  • Mastering: Denny Purcell
  • Assistant mastering engineer: Jonathan Russell
  • Editing: Tony Castle
  • Art direction: Tracy Baskette-Fleaner, Bill Johnson
  • Design: Gina R. Binkley
  • Photography: Ed Rode, Albert Sanchez
  • Photo consultant: Dari Marder
  • Stylist: Renee Fowler
  • Hair stylists: Jennifer Davis, Alex Dizon, Daniel Erdman, Melanie Shelley, Michael Silva
  • Make-up: Debra Ferullo, Stacey Martin, Maital Sabbon

Cover lettering from Butterfly Alphabet by Kjell Bloch Sandved.

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Chart (1999) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 1
U.S. Billboard 200 1
Canadian RPM Country Albums 1
Canadian RPM Top Albums 6

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[5] Platinum 70,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[6] 3× Platinum 300,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[7] Silver 60,000^
United States (RIAA)[8] 10× Platinum 8,396,000[3]

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

Awards

Grammy Awards

Year Winner Category
2000 Fly Best Country Album
2000 "Ready to Run" Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal

See also

References

  1. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "Fly". Robert Christgau.
  2. ↑ RIAA Bestsellers
  3. 1 2 Paul Grein (October 30, 2013). "Katy Perry Knocks Miley Cyrus Down a Couple Pegs". Chart Watch. Yahoo.
  4. ↑ Fly (CD booklet). Dixie Chicks. Monument Records. 1999. 69678.
  5. ↑ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2003 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association.
  6. ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Dixie Chicks – Fly". Music Canada.
  7. ↑ "British album certifications – Dixie Chicks – Fly". British Phonographic Industry. Enter Fly in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Silver in the field By Award. Click Search
  8. ↑ "American album certifications – Dixie Chicks – Fly". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH
Preceded by
Christina Aguilera by Christina Aguilera		 Billboard 200 number-one album
September 18 – October 1, 1999 		Succeeded by
Ruff Ryders' First Lady by Eve
Preceded by
Come On Over by Shania Twain
Come On Over by Shania Twain
Latest Greatest Straitest Hits by George Strait
I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack		 Top Country Albums number-one album
September 18 – November 12, 1999
January 15 – March 24, 2000
April 8 – June 9, 2000
June 17 – August 17, 2000 		Succeeded by
LeAnn Rimes by LeAnn Rimes
Latest Greatest Straitest Hits by George Strait
I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack
Burn by Jo Dee Messina
Preceded by
Wide Open Spaces by Dixie Chicks
Come on Over by Shania Twain
Breathe by Faith Hill
Breathe by Faith Hill		 RPM Country Albums number-one album
September 27 – October 3, 1999
May 29 – June 11, 2000
June 26 – July 2, 2000
August 7–20, 2000 		Succeeded by
Come On Over by Shania Twain
Breathe by Faith Hill
Breathe by Faith Hill
Burn by Jo Dee Messina
Preceded by
Come On Over by Shania Twain		 Top Country Albums number-one album of the year
2000 		Succeeded by
Greatest Hits by Tim McGraw
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