{"id":1319031,"date":"2020-03-23T13:30:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T19:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1819392"},"modified":"2020-03-23T13:30:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T19:30:50","slug":"womens-history-month-an-array-of-talent-in-the-90s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/womens-history-month-an-array-of-talent-in-the-90s\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s History Month: An Array of Talent in the \u201990s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Edward Morris<\/a><\/span>
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As country music introduced a number of immediate superstars in the 1990s, more and more radio stations flipped to the format \u2014 with a record 2505 stations playing country full-time by 1997. With this broad exposure, country albums began selling by the millions rather than the usual hundreds of thousands. In turn, more profit meant less risk, larger rosters, and bigger promotional budgets, allowing Nashville\u2019s labels to experiment with a wider variety of rising talent than ever before. <\/p>\n

Finally, there were the growing audiences for TNN: The Nashville Network and CMT, included in a home\u2019s typical basic cable package at that time. These networks\u2019 insatiable demand for programming \u2014 live performances, talk shows, game shows, and especially music videos \u2014 depended on new and established talent alike, setting the stage for an array of female artists in the 1990s to blossom. Here are some of the brightest talents from that decade.<\/p>\n

THE NEW KIDS IN TOWN<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who\u2019d have thought that a string band trio \u2014 of girls yet! \u2014 would ever blow the doors off country music? But that\u2019s exactly what Dixie Chicks<\/strong> did. And they were pretty good at burning bridges, too. Sisters Martie and Emily Erwin and lead vocalist Natalie Maines first topped the charts in 1998 with \u201cThere\u2019s Your Trouble.\u201d It won a Grammy and started a run on such adjectives as \u201csassy,\u201d \u201cexuberant\u201d and \u201cin your face.\u201d<\/p>\n

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