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 ...

Patricia Schwabe freely admits that she never expected to go into the restaurant industry. Although her mother was an excellent cook with a great palate, Schwabe was working on getting her real estate ...

There's a sense of yearning throughout the Dixie Chicks' discography: From the expansive sense of expedition of "Wide Open Spaces" to the unwillingness to settle articulated in "Ready to Run," the ...

To some, the story of Christopher Johnson McCandless, the 24-year-old Emory University graduate who starved to death in the Alaskan wilderness in the spring of 1992, will never be anything more than a ...