Songwriter Susan Gibson wrote the song "Wide Open Spaces" after moving away for college and trying to express to her mother that she needed room to make her big mistakes. She needed new faces. She ...

There's a sense of yearning throughout the Dixie Chicks' discography: From the expansive sense of expedition of "Wide Open Spaces" to the unwillingness to settle articulated in "Ready to Run," the ...

For a woman who wrote the best-selling single in country music history, the Dixie Chicks’ “Wide Open Spaces,” Susan Gibson is concerned with the most mundane of activities on this late September ...

ABBA’s “Dancing Queen,” Blondie’s “Parallel Lines,” The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Ready to Die,” Green Day’s “Dookie,” The Chicks’ “Wide Open Spaces” and Lily Tomlin’s comedy have been selected as some of ...