Founding Dixie Chicks member Laura Lynch killed in automotive crash in Texas

Founding Dixie Chicks member Laura Lynch was killed in a automotive crash in West Texas on Friday night, her cousin Michael Lynch confirmed to CBS Information.

Particulars of the crash weren’t instantly identified. 

An upright bass participant, Lynch based the band alongside three different ladies in 1989, together with sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer, in accordance to the band’s biography on Nation Music tv. The group recorded three albums collectively earlier than Lynch left and was changed by Natalie Maines, creating the present trio of Maines, Maguire and Strayer. 

In a 1992 interview with Leisure Tonight, Lynch instructed director Jim Ruddy the band was a gaggle effort and he or she ”hopes feminine concord” makes an enormous comeback. Lynch mentioned how they named the all-female nation music band identified for its intense harmonies and guitar taking part in, she stated the group was driving round listening to Little Feat and the lyrics had Dixie Rooster in them. 

Lynch stated it was recommended the band referred to as themselves the Dixie Chickens, however everybody responded ”Ooh, I do not find out about being referred to as chickens,” so the women shortened it to ”Dixie Chicks.”

In June 2020, the band modified its title to simply ”The Chicks.” The title change got here because the U.S. reckoned with its historical past of racial injustice within the wake of the killing of George Floyd. The time period ”Dixie” has usually been related to the slavery period. 

In a press release Saturday afternoon, the band described Lynch as a ”brilliant mild,” writing that ”her infectious power and humor gave a spark to the early days of our band. Laura had a present for design, a love of all issues Texas and was instrumental within the early success of the band.

”Her plain skills helped propel us past busking on road corners to phases all throughout Texas and the mid-West,” learn the assertion, which was signed by Maines, Maguire and Strayer. 

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