The Long Way Around
"The Long Way Around" | ||||
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Single by Dixie Chicks | ||||
from the album Taking the Long Way | ||||
Released | January 8, 2007 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 4:33 | |||
Label | Columbia Nashville | |||
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Producer(s) | Rick Rubin | |||
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"The Long Way Around" (a.k.a. "Taking the Long Way Around") is a song written by Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire, Emily Robison and Dan Wilson and recorded by the American all-female trio Dixie Chicks for their seventh studio album, Taking the Long Way (2006). The song was the fifth and final single released from the album.
The song is the opening track of Taking the Long Way and provides the album its title, which derives from the chorus.
About the writing process of the song, Robison said, "That's a journey song, about the different stages in our lives. A recap of where we've been, where we're going - and it was nice to remind ourselves of all that." Maines said, "We've always written songs that are about other people. It's so much harder to put yourself out there and be honest with your emotions and your beliefs, but the songs are so much better and mean so much more when you can let yourself be vulnerable."[1]
Critical response
"The Long Way Around" received unanimous[citation needed] critical acclaim. It was ranked as the 20th best song of 2006 by Rolling Stone magazine, which called it "a heart-tugging guitar anthem for small-town girls with big dreams -- and the best ersatz Springsteen song in a year that was packed with them".[2]
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- Thank Heavens for Dale Evans
- Little Ol' Cowgirl
- Shouldn't a Told You That
- Wide Open Spaces
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- Home
- Taking the Long Way
- Gaslighter
- Playlist: The Very Best of Dixie Chicks
- The Essential Dixie Chicks
- "I Can Love You Better"
- "There's Your Trouble"
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- "You Were Mine"
- "Tonight the Heartache's on Me"
- "Ready to Run"
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- "Goodbye Earl"
- "Cold Day in July"
- "Without You"
- "If I Fall You're Going Down with Me"
- "Heartbreak Town"
- "Some Days You Gotta Dance"
- "Long Time Gone"
- "Landslide"
- "Travelin' Soldier"
- "Top of the World"
- "I Hope"
- "Not Ready to Make Nice"
- "Everybody Knows"
- "The Long Way Around"
- "Daddy Lessons"
- "Gaslighter"
- An Evening with the Dixie Chicks
- Top of the World Tour: Live (video)
- Discography
- Awards and nominations
- Comments on George W. Bush
- Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
- Court Yard Hounds
- "You Can't Hurry Love"
- "Sin Wagon"
- "Roly Poly"
- "Soon You'll Get Better"
- Lloyd Maines
- David Grissom
- Dan Wilson