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Use mdy dates|date=March 2012Infobox musical artist | name = Court Yard Hounds| image = Maguire and Robeson 2010.jpg| caption = Maguire, left, and Robison, right, performing at Antone's, SXSW , Austin, Texas, March 17, 2010| image_size = 250| landscape = Yes| background = group_or_band| origin = San Antonio , Texas, USA| genre = Country music|Country , Folk music|Folk | years_active = 2010—present| label = Columbia Records|Columbia | associated_acts = Dixie Chicks | current_members = Martie Maguire Emily Robison | website = http://www.courtyardhounds.com/ Official site Court Yard Hounds is an American country music and Folk music|folk duo founded by sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison . They, along with Natalie Maines , make up the Dixie Chicks . The sisters decided to record a side project under a different name. Court Yard Hounds, featuring Robison for the first time as lead vocalist released a debut album for Columbia Records , the same label for which the Dixie Chicks has recorded, on May 4, 2010. The album debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 chart, initially selling 61,000 copies. It has sold approximately 250,000 copies in the United States.
Career
Dixie Chicks
Main|Dixie ChicksEmily and Martie Erwin, now Emily Robison and Martie Maguire, founded the Dixie Chicks in 1989 with Robin Lynn Macy (lead vocals) and Laura Lynch . They released two independent albums before Macy left, and their third album was released with Lynch on lead vocals. In 1995, Lynch left and was replaced by Natalie Maines . The group was then signed to Monument Records and released two hit albums, before departing in 2000 and founding their own label, Open Wide Records, in association with Columbia Records They then released another album, and during a London concert ten days before the 2003 invasion of Iraq , lead vocalist Maines said, "we don't want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas" (the Dixie Chicks' home state). The statement offended some people who thought it rude and unpatriotic, and the ensuing controversy cost the group half of their concert audience attendance in the United States and led to accusations of the three women being " un-American ", as well as hate mail, a death threat, and the public destruction of their albums in protest.cite web | url= http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14822593/ |title=Dixie Chicks ‘Shut Up and Sing’ in Toronto | publisher=MSNBC |accessdate=October 8, 2006 A live album was released in 2003, and a double platinum Grammy Award -winning studio album Taking the Long Way followed in 2006 before they went on hiatus in 2008.
Formation of Court Yard Hounds
Court Yard Hounds was formed in 2009 when Maguire and Robison wanted to return to the studio.
The duo's project was announced in January 2010 and the album features Emily Robison on lead vocals.cite web|date=January 11, 2010 |author=Edward Morris |url= http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1629456/two-members-of-dixie-chicks-releasing-album-without-natalie-maines.jhtml |title=News : Two Members of Dixie Chicks Releasing Album Without Natalie Maines |publisher=CMT |date=January 11, 2010 |accessdate=February 19, 2010 Robison has said that the album is "very personal" and that she will be joined by Jakob Dylan on a track called "See You in the Spring".cite web|author=David Browne |url= http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/01/15/dixie-chicks-plan-album-tour-with-court-yard-hounds-side-project/ |title=Pair of Dixie Chicks Plan Album, Tour as New Band Court Yard Hounds : Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily |work=Rolling Stone |accessdate=February 19, 2010 They are signed to Columbia Records and released their self-titled debut album on May 4, 2010.cite web|url= http://www.courtyardhounds.com |title=The Official Court Yard Hounds Site |publisher=Court Yard Hounds |date=January 15, 2010 |accessdate=February 19, 2010 Their first public appearance as Court Yard Hounds was on March 18, 2010 at the Americana Music Association 's SXSW showcase in Austin, Texas . Lead singer Emily Robison has also confirmed there will be songs based on her divorce from Charlie Robison in 2008.cite web|url= http://www.theboot.com/2010/01/19/court-yard-hounds/ |title=Dixie Chicks Sisters Return as Court Yard Hounds |publisher=The Boot |date=January 15, 2010 |accessdate=February 19, 2010 According to Rolling Stone Magazine, while Robison is on lead vocals backed up by her sister Martie, the band consists of Natalie Maines' father, Lloyd Maines , on guitar, and other members are members from the Dixie Chicks' backing band; the album was also recorded in Maguire's home studio. According to Maguire and Robison, the Dixie Chicks have not parted ways.cite web|url= http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1629856/two-dixie-chicks-rename-themselves-as-court-yard-hounds.jhtml|title=Two Dixie Chicks Rename Themselves as Court Yard Hounds|date=January 15, 2010|work=CMT|accessdate=February 19, 2010 Along with plans from The Dixie Chicks to tour with the Eagles (band)|Eagles and Keith Urban , starting in 2010,cite news|url= http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/03/17/dixie-chicks-team-with-eagles-for-first-tour-in-four-years/|title=Dixie Chicks Team With Eagles for First Tour in Four Years|date=March 17, 2010|work=Rolling Stone |accessdate=April 3, 2010 the duo plans to release a follow-up album sometime in 2012.
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2010
Court Yard Hounds (album)
Release date: May 4, 2010
Label: Open Wide/ Columbia Records|Columbia
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2010
"The Coast"
Court Yard Hounds
"It Didn't Make a Sound"
"See You in the Spring"
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2010
"It Didn't Make a Sound"http:/ / www.amazon.com/ dp/ B003CJ4DTA
Dixie Chicks Category:American country music groups Category:Columbia Records artists Category:Country music duos Category:Sibling musical duos Category:Musical groups from Austin, Texas Category:Musical groups established in 2009
