RELEASED 1998
LABEL Monument Records
WIDE OPEN SPACES won the 1999 Grammy for Best Country Album. Dixie Chicks were nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. "There's Your Trouble" won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.
The Dixie Chicks' WIDE OPEN SPACES is flavored with tight-knit harmonies and acoustic instrumentation within the center of very tastefully understated arrangements. Their own acoustic underpinnings of fiddle, guitar, banjo and dobro are complimented and raised up by Paul Worley and Blake Chancey's respectful and organic production. This music is decorated with antique store furnishings, not the usual gaudy, regurgitated guitar licks and cheap generic production tricks. The trio is propelled by their delightful vocals and the very natural and easy country sway that the producer and the fine accompanying musicians have created.
Tracklist
I Can Love You Better
Wide Open Spaces
Loving Arms
There's Your Trouble
You Were Mine
Never Say Die
Tonight the Heartache's on Me
Let 'Er Rip
Once You've Loved Somebody
I'll Take Care of You
Am I the Only One (Who's Ever Felt This Way)
Give It Up or Let Me Go
