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Martie Maguire
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| Martie Maguire | |
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 Martie Maguire performing in Austin, Texas during the Accidents & Accusations Tour.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Martha Elenor Erwin |
| Born | October 12, 1969 |
| Origin |  York, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Genre(s) | Country rock, Bluegrass |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, Songwriter, Singer |
| Years active | 1989–Present |
| Label(s) | SonyBMG/Open Wide/Columbia |
| Associated acts |
Dixie Chicks |
| Members | |
| Natalie Maines Martie Maguire Emily Robison | |
| Former members | |
| Laura Lynch Robin Lynn Macy | |
| Notable instrument(s) | |
| 1920 German Stradavarius violin, 1920's German Stainer violin with an L.R. Baggs bridge, Gibson F-5 Master acoustic mandolin | |
Martie Maguire (born October 12, 1969) is an American country music songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning female country rock band the Dixie Chicks.
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Martha Elenor Erwin was born in York, Pennsylvania, but was raised in Addison, a northern suburban town on the edge of Dallas Texas, with an older sister, Julia, and younger sister, Emily, to parents Paul Erwin and Barbara Trask. Martha was nicknamed "Martie". Encouraged by her parents, she began playing violin at age five.[1] By age 12, she was experimenting with playing "fiddle style", and was in the school orchestra. Emily Erwin, three years her junior, followed close behind, and shared both an early talent and interest in music, and the two were provided with as much musical instruction as was felt they could handle. Because of this, although Martie became famous for her ability in vocal harmony, and mastery of the fiddle, she also plays a variety of stringed instruments: the viola, guitar, mandolin, and bass.
By 1983 Maguire was touring with her sister Emily and friends; siblings Sharon and Troy Gilchrist. The sisters showed an "almost obsessive" interest" in busking at small venues and attending bluegrass festivals.[2] The four students formed the teenage bluegrass group Blue Night Express, while attending private Greenhill School in Addison, Texas. While Emily was still in school, after Martie graduated, the four continued to refine their skills, and during the year from 1988 to 1989, she continued not only in polishing her talents, and performing in the university orchestra while a student at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, but she took home the award for placing third in the National Fiddle Championships.[3]
In 1989, Martie and Emily teamed up with guitarist Robin Lynn Macy and Laura Lynch on bass playing what was at the time predominantly bluegrass music and a beguiling mix of country music standards. Jane Frost, Director of the Patsy Montana Museum and Walnut Valley Festival held in Winfield, Kansas recalls being privy to the discussion that the four women had about a the possibility of a successful career as musicians together. Martie felt they could do well. Robin said, ".. It's going to be a 'hot' band," to which Emily responded, "I give it six months, and if we aren't making money by then, I'm out of here!"[2] When they were at last booked for paid appearances, they decided to call themselves the Dixie Chicks after a song, "Dixie Chicken" written by Lowell George of the band Little Feat. Originally billed as Martie Erwin, Martie played fiddle, mandolin, viola and harmonized with Emily on backup vocals within the band.
The new band toured, practiced, and worked hard, and by the start of 1990, their first studio album was released, Thank Heavens For Dale Evans, and in 1991 a Christmas single at the end of the year followed, Home on the Radar Range. By 1992, the women had earned some local respect with their instrumental sound as well as obtaining positions opening up for other big name country musicians like George Strait, as well as a second studio album, Lil Ole Cowgirl. Although they had originally been billed as an "all cowgirl" or "all-girl" band, they dropped that description as they enlisted the assistance of sidemen to produce a fuller, richer sound in their music. One of these was accomplished pedal steel guitarist Lloyd Maines, in nearby Lubbock, Texas, who played on the album with them and with whom they developed a mutual respect as musicians. In doing so, they met Natalie Maines, Lloyd's daughter, who was also an aspiring musician. However, not all of the Chicks were pleased in the direction that the music was taking. Robin Lynn Macy left the band, seeking a "purer bluegrass sound". Lynch, thrust into the role of sole lead singer on their third album, Shouldn't A Tole You That, in 1993, was replaced by the sisters in 1995 with singer composer Natalie Maines after the group was unable to garner anything more than local interest.[4] The change left the cowgirl dresses in the past, with a more contemporary look, and a sound that was broader in appeal.
After offering the position of lead vocalist to Lloyd Maines' daughter, Natalie, the band was revitalized. Maguire says, "With Natalie's blues, folk, and rock influences, we were able to move in a new direction, musically. We wanted to do this before, but felt our instruments limited us." .[1] The new Dixie Chicks again took to the road. It wasn't long before they were signed to SONY, and their first album was released that the band had a widespread audience, and a loyal following. Both as a single and an album, Wide Open Spaces flowed musically and harmoniously. The song itself provided lyrics that all three members felt were semi-biographical in nature. (reference Vh1 Storytellers)
"Many precede and many will follow, A young girl's dream no longer hollow, It takes the shape of a place out west; But what it holds for her, she hasn't yet guessed- She needs wide open spaces, Room to make her big mistakes, She needs new faces, She knows the high stakes."
In 1999 the album won them their first Grammy Awards as well as acclaim from the Country Music Association and other high profile awards. The album released five singles that ranked within the top ten in the United States, and of them, three hit #1 on the U.S. charts.
Martie co-wrote the song "Cowboy Take Me Away" on the Dixie Chicks fifth album Fly for her sister Emily, during her courtship to country music singer Charlie Robison. [1] Martie was so happy for Emily, who subsequently married, changing her name to Emily Robison in 1999, that she introduced it years later, on a Vh1 "Storytellers" program, saying that "Charlie is a 'real' cowboy", and that the song was their wedding waltz.
Martie married pharmaceutical representative Ted Seidel on June 17, 1995, after which she was billed as Martie Seidel. During the marriage she met her new step-son, Carter. The couple was divorced in November, 1999.
Martie met her next husband at bandmate Natalie Maines sister's wedding. Martie then married Gareth Maguire, a Roman Catholic from Northern Ireland on August 10, 2001, in a civil ceremony in Hawaii, and later had Catholic "blessing" ceremony was held in the groom's hometown, Carnlough in County Antrim, Ireland, on March 9th, 2002, for all the guests that were not able to attend the first one. Martie said that the Catholic Church would not permit a wedding service due to her prior divorce. After her marriage, Martie changed her name to that of her new husband, and is now known as Martie Maguire. During promotion of the album Home, the Dixie Chicks made frequent reference to the fact that "White Trash Wedding" was written about Martie and Gareth's nuptials, due to their wedding being planned in two weeks and being last minute.(http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1449170/09252001/dixie_chicks.jhtml CMT Spotlight ]
Maguire has been frank about their decision to use IVF to conceive their twins. Speaking in an interview in Conceive Magazine, "All my paperwork said 'unspecified origin,'" she says. "We spent three years of active trying before we went to IVF. First I went on Clomid. Then I had some dye tests and found I had a collapsed tube, so I had laparoscopic surgery; the tube wasn't blocked, just spasming." After three attempts at intrauterine insemination, she said, she and her husband didn't think it was worth continuing in that manner, and switched to invitro fertilization. Martie and Gareth now have two children, twin daughters Eva Ruth and Kathleen Emilie, born April 27, 2004.[5] Currently, the two reside with their children in Austin, Texas. Maguire and Robison co-wrote a song, "So Hard", about their own personal experiences.
1. Maguire, Martie. 3 September 2005[http:/www.chicksrockchicksrule.com Interview] ^ a b Frost, Jane. (15 July, 1999)Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS, Early 1980s The All-Inclusive Dixie Chicks Page Accessed 3 December 2007. 2. Ankeny, Jason. 17 December 2007 accessed. All-Music Guide 3. 4. 5.
- ^ a b Maguire, Martie (3 September 2005)[http:/www.chicksrockchicksrule.com]
- ^ a b Frost, Jane. (15 July, 1999)Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS, Early 1980s The All-Inclusive Dixie Chicks Page.
- ^ Ankeny, Jason. (2007) Vh1 Dixie Chicks Biography All-Music Guide.
- ^ Dickerson, James L. (2000) Dixie Chicks: Down-Home and Backstage. Taylor Trade Publishing, Dallas, Texas. ISBN 0-87833-189-1.
- ^ Weinhouse, Beth. (Fall 2007) The Dixie Chicks Taking The Long Way...To Motherhood
- See also: Dixie Chicks Awards
Academy of Country Music Awards
- (1999) New Vocal Duo or Group
- (1999) Top Vocal Duo/Group
- (1999) Album of the Year
- (2000) Album Of The Year
- (2000) Vocal Duo/Group Of The Year
- (2001) Entertainer of The Year
- (2001) Vocal Group of The Year
- (2001) Video of the Year
Country Music Association Awards
- (1998) Vocal Group Of The Year
- (1999) Horizon Music Video of the Year "Wide Open Spaces"
- (1999) Single of the Year "Wide Open Spaces"
- (1999) Vocal Group of the Year
- (2000) Album of the Year Fly
- (2000) Vocal Group, Video "Goodbye Earl"
- (2000) Entertainer of the Year
- (2002) Vocal Group of the Year
- (2003) International Artist Achievement Award
- (2007) Nomination: Group of the Year
Grammy Awards
- (1999) Best Country Performance "There's Your Trouble"
- (1999) Best Country Album Wide Open Spaces
- (2000) Best Country Performance "Ready to Run"
- (2000) Best Country Album Fly
- (2003) Best Country Performance "Long Time Gone"
- (2003) Best Country Instrumental Performance "Lil' Jack Slade"
- (2003) Best Country Album Fly
- (2003) Best Recording Package Home
- (2005) Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal "Top Of The World"
- (2007) Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal "Not Ready To Make Nice"
- (2007) Song Of The Year "Not Ready To Make Nice"
- (2007) Best Country Album Taking The Long Way
- (2007) Record Of The Year Not Ready To Make Nice
- (2007) Album Of The Year Taking The Long Way
Juno Awards
- 2007: International Album of the Year - Taking the Long Way
- Martie Maguire at the Internet Movie Database
- Dixie Chicks Henhouse profile
- ChicksRockChicksRule.com Online source of Dixie Chicks multimedia.
- All Music-Martie Maguire
- Liberal Country Fan In-depth reporting on Martie's music and politics.
| Dixie Chicks |
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| Natalie Maines | Emily Robison | Martie Maguire |
| Laura Lynch | Robin Lynn Macy |
| Discography |
| Studio albums: Thank Heavens for Dale Evans | Little Ol' Cowgirl | Shouldn't a Told You That | Wide Open Spaces | Fly | Home | Taking the Long Way |
| Live Videos: An Evening with the Dixie Chicks | Top of the World Tour: Live |
| Live Albums: Top of the World Tour: Live |
| Documentary: Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing |
| Tours: Fly Tour | Top of the World Tour | Vote for Change | Accidents & Accusations Tour |