Editing Natalie Maines (section)

== Career ==
Maines's first professional recording was lead vocals on the song "White Women's Clothes" on Andy Wilkinson's album "Charlie Goodnight's Life in Poetry and Song." Maines's first commercially released work was [[backing vocalist|background vocals]] on [[Pat Green]]'s debut album, ''Dancehall Dreamer'', produced by her father Lloyd Maines and released in 1995. At the end of 1995, at age 21, Maines joined the all-female [[country music]] band, the then named [[Dixie Chicks]], which had been performing since 1989, but which had been unsuccessful in gaining more than local attention. Maines replaced founding lead singer Laura Lynch.  She plays guitar and bass in concert in the band.<ref>{{cite web |last=Davis |first=Rob |url=http://dixiechicksfaq.homestead.com/files/chicks.htm#_28.__What |title=Dixie Chicks FAQ No.&nbsp;30 |access-date=April 12, 2007}}</ref>

Maines co-wrote six songs overall for the Chicks' next three albums, including the ''[[Billboard charts|Billboard]]'' [[Hot Country Songs|Hot Country Singles & Tracks]] chart number one hit "[[Without You (Dixie Chicks song)|Without You]]" on ''[[Fly (Dixie Chicks album)|Fly]]''. She was a primary songwriter on all 14 tracks of the band's 2006 album ''[[Taking the Long Way]]'' which peaked on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] chart at No.&nbsp;1. ''Taking the Long Way'' has the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] single "[[Not Ready to Make Nice]]", (Maines, Strayer, Erwin, Wilson) hitting No.&nbsp;4<ref name="Billboard">{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=dixie chicks|chart=all}} |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929125545/http://{{billboardurlbyname|artist=dixie/}} |archive-date=September 29, 2007 |title=Dixie Chicks: Singles |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=June 17, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and for which the band won the songwriting Grammy Award, for [[Grammy Award for Song of the Year|Song of the Year]]. Maines considers the songwriting she did for ''Taking the Long Way'' "pure therapy" after the controversy that ensued over a comment Maines made from the stage in London that criticized U.S. President [[George W. Bush]].<ref name="Burkeman">{{cite news |last=Burkeman |first=Oliver |date=March 25, 2006 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/usa/story/0,,1739311,00.html |title=Dixie Chicks turn death threats to song |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=March 18, 2007}}</ref> "Everything felt more personal this time", Maines said about the album, "there's just more maturity, depth, intelligence. ... [These songs] feel more grown-up."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Cohen |first=Jonathan |date=March 10, 2006 |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/59125/dixie-chicks-get-personal-on-long-way |title=Dixie Chicks Get Personal On 'Long Way' |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=June 1, 2007}}</ref>

Maines collaborates with other musical artists, both as a member of the Chicks and an individual singer. The Chicks first worked with [[Sheryl Crow]] in 1999 while performing for the concert tour [[Lilith Fair]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Rosen |first=Craig |date=December 3, 1999 |url=http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/12032703 |title=Dixie Chicks And Sheryl Crow Prove They're Gutsy Women |publisher=Yahoo!Music |access-date=June 1, 2007}}</ref> Since then, the Chicks have worked with Crow on her ''[[Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live from Central Park]]'' album, a Crow remixed version of "[[Landslide (Fleetwood Mac song)|Landslide]]" performed by the Chicks, and the Chicks' song "Favorite Year" from ''Taking the Long Way''.  Maines has performed with artists including Pat Green, [[Charlie Robison]], [[Yellowcard]], [[Stevie Nicks]], [[Patty Griffin]], [[Neil Diamond]], [[Eddie Vedder]], [[Pete Yorn]] and [[Ben Harper]].

On May 7, 2013, Maines released a solo album entitled ''[[Mother (Natalie Maines album)|Mother]]''.<ref name="tasteofcountry.com">{{Cite web|url=https://tasteofcountry.com/dixie-chicks-natalie-maines-pink-floyd-mother-video/|title=Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines Covers Pink Floyd's 'Mother'|first=Cory|last=Stromblad|website=Taste of Country|date=July 19, 2012 }}</ref><ref name="twitter.com">{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/1NatalieMaines/status/281263948551057408|title=@JRig2010 @tray2276 May 7th.|first=Natalie|last=Maines|date=December 18, 2012}}</ref> This was Maines's first album since the Chicks hiatus started in 2007. The album was co-produced by [[Ben Harper]]. The album contains Maines's interpretation of several cover songs, including [[Pink Floyd]]'s [[Mother (Pink Floyd song)|"Mother"]], [[Eddie Vedder]]'s "Without You", and [[Jeff Buckley]]'s "Lover, You Should've Come Over". She also sings about motherhood, [[feminism]], and painful relationships.<ref name="tasteofcountry.com" /><ref name="twitter.com" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Natalie Maines: A Country-Music Rebel Rocks On Her Own|date=May 8, 2013|url=http://wunc.org/post/natalie-maines-country-music-rebel-rocks-her-own|publisher=North Carolina Public Radio|access-date=June 16, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=First Listen: Natalie Maines, 'Mother'|work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2013/04/28/179030765/first-listen-natalie-maines-mother|publisher=NPR Music|access-date=June 16, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=Natalie Maines: A Dixie Chick Declares War on Nashville |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/natalie-maines-a-dixie-chick-declares-war-on-nashville-20130530|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=June 16, 2013}}</ref>

In September 2015, Maines was inducted into the [[West Texas Walk of Fame]].  The ceremony took place at [[Lubbock High School]] from where she graduated in 1992.<ref>{{cite web |title=Natalie Maines, Jo Harvey Allen headed for West Texas Walk of Fame |url=https://www.kcbd.com/story/29442793/natalie-maines-jo-harvey-allen-headed-for-west-texas-walk-of-fame/ |website=KCBD.com |date=June 30, 2015 |access-date=28 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=WEST TEXAS WALK OF FAME INDUCTEES |url=https://civiclubbock.org/walk-of-fame/list-of-inductees/ |website=Civic Lubbock |access-date=28 December 2023}}</ref>