The Chicks Will Tour Taking the Long Way for Its 20th Anniversary This Fall

The Chicks are taking their 2006 album back on the road. A 20th anniversary tour for Taking the Long Way will cross North America this fall, starting September 30 at Detroit’s Fox Theatre and running through November. The itinerary sticks to theaters and concert halls, a format that fits the record’s layered arrangements and the directness of its vocal performances.

The announcement lands at a moment when the group has been steadily active again. Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire, and Emily Strayer returned from a 13-year break in 2020 with Gaslighter and, soon after, dropped the “Dixie” from their name. They’ve toured on and off since, but this is the first time they’ve built a full outing around one album.

Taking the Long Way arrived after the band’s public criticism of George W. Bush and the intense backlash that followed. The record turned that rupture into something durable. It won Album of the Year at the 2007 Grammys, while “Not Ready to Make Nice” took Record and Song of the Year. Two decades later, the songs haven’t softened; the tour will test how they land in rooms like Chicago’s Auditorium, New York’s Beacon Theatre, and San Francisco’s Masonic.