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Laura Lynch, the original member of the country music band, the Dixie Chicks, passed away in a fatal car accident, the authorities said. She was 65 years old. Lynch, who lived in Fort Worth, was driving on Route 62 near Cornudas, Texas, when a pick-up truck from the opposite direction hit her vehicle head-on, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Lynch died on the spot. The country singer formed the Dixie Chicks, later renamed as the Chicks, in Dallas in 1988 with Robin Lynn Macy, and sisters Emily Strayer…

Laura Lynch, a founding member of the music group who would find fame as The Dixie chicks, has died in a car crash in West Texas. She was 65.Lynch was involved in a head-on collision in El Paso on Friday, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Now know as The Chicks, the group posted news of Lynch’s death to their Instagram.“We are shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Laura Lynch, a founding member of The Chicks,” the band said in its statement. “We hold a special place in our hearts for the time…

Laura Lynch, a founding member of The Dixie Chicks, who played the upright bass in the band from 1990-93, has died. She was 65. The musician was killed in a car crash near El Paso, Texas, Friday evening, her cousin, Michael Lynch, told CBS News. Per a Texas Department of Safety report obtained by HuffPost, a car was trying to pass another vehicle on a two-way undivided portion of a highway and crashed head-on into Lynch’s car. According to the report, the artist was pronounced dead at the…

"We hold a special place in our hearts for the time we spent playing music, laughing and traveling together," bassist/singer's former band mates said in a statement Laura Lynch, a founding member of the Dixie Chicks (now the Chicks) who played on the country act’s first three albums, has died at the age of 65. Lynch died following injuries sustained in a car accident on a highway outside of El Paso, Texas, TMZ first reported and the Texas Department of Public Safety later confirmed. Lynch’s…

Fourteen years since their last record, the Chicks dropped the “Dixie” from their name and made a triumphant return with their eighth studio album, “Gaslighter.” The band — Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer — was exiled from the country music scene in 2003 after Maines criticized George W. Bush during a London concert, and it doesn’t shy away from politics on its latest effort, firing shots at the incompetence of America’s political leaders and calling for gun control. But the most prominent lyrical…

The weather never felt more apt for a festival with the name British Summer Time on Thursday 6th July as the mighty Bruce Springsteen was set to take the headline slot with The Chicks and Frank Turner as main support. At 1pm sharp, the gates opened and stewards were having to tell the rushing crowd to slow down as they ran through the park to get their barrier row positions for the show. Springsteen had attracted a wide range of ages amongst the music fans that he would later perform his six decades of his careers music…

The clouds make good on their promise as the Chicks embark on the unapologetic Not Ready to Make Nice, but the rain isn’t a match for Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire in three-part harmony. The pop-country icons are locked in all night, skipping around technical difficulties and swirling wind with grit, humour and outlandish musicianship.They emerge after a blast of Joan Jett’s Bad Reputation, its sentiment pointed given the long shadow cast by the Chicks (they cut the “Dixie” in 2020 due to the term’s…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureOn the Park, Belgian duo Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pulpul are getting their outsider electropop thing on. One song just seems to be Adigéry maniacally cackling over a thudding beat … and I must say, I’m into it.Dark clouds over Worthy Farm: are we finally going to experience the first rain of the weekend? Whisper it, but a few of us wouldn’t mind a bit of the clear stuff to break up this stiflingly humid weather a bit.Over on the West Holts,…

It's a rather horrifying fact that every day in hen hatcheries around the world, all male chicks are tossed alive into a grinder. A new system could keep those chicks from ever existing, by analyzing the scent of eggs to ascertain the sex of the embryo inside.There are already two main methods of sexing unhatched chicken embryos, but they both have their drawbacks.One approach involves drilling a tiny hole in the shell of each egg, then withdrawing allantoic fluid samples for analysis. The other technique utilizes…

When the Chicks aren’t working, the three members keep a group text going to stay in touch about band matters and about one another’s families — and to trade jokes, “the more inappropriate the better,” says lead singer Natalie Maines.If people could read what they write, the 48-year-old adds with a laugh, “we’d be canceled 10 times over already.”This summer, the Grammy-winning pop-country trio — which also includes sisters Martie Maguire, 53, and Emily Strayer, 50 — are on the road, touring behind their most recent…