Dixie Chicks lead singer and Lubbock resident Natalie Maines has spoken out once again, this time attacking her hometown instead of the president. Maines made comments during the premiere of the new Dixie Chicks documentary being featured at the Toronto International Film Festival "Shut Up and Sing,” which documents the group's time since the now notorious President George W. Bush comments when Maines told a concert crowd she and the Chicks were ashamed that Bush was from Texas.The lead singer spoke to the Vancouver Sun recently, saying, "but if you live in Lubbock, Texas, where I'm from -- you just have one paper and one radio station and unless you're savvy on the Internet, that's it for you. If Bush said get a gun and kill an Arab, they would do that."
It's a comment that isn't sitting well with some Lubbockites. "I don't believe she should be cutting Lubbock down the way she does because Lubbock housed and fed her for a long time," a resident said.
"Everybody has the right to say whatever they feel, it's a free country," another resident said.
The documentary makers said they don't know exactly when "Shut Up and Sing" will air in Lubbock, but they said it could be as early as October.