Marine Sings Answer To Dixie Chicks Hit
Pictured: Cpl. David Thibodeaux, a Marine who has deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan, recently recorded “I’m Not Ready to End the Fight,” an answer song to the Dixie Chicks’ anti-war music. The song features backing music from Toby Keith’s Easy Money Band.
Click HERE to watch the music video.
From The Marine Corps Times:
Cpl. David Thibodeaux was in Iraq with 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, when the Dixie Chicks partnered with anti-war group MoveOn.org in 2004. Despite the band making headlines with anti-war views, he didn’t know much about them, he says.
Nevertheless, Thibodeaux now sings “Not Ready to End the Fight,” an “answer song” to the Dixie Chicks’ 2006 anti-war hit, “Not Ready to Make Nice.”
“I’ve seen so many good things happen in Iraq, and I don’t think it’s time for the war to end,” said Thibodeaux, a member of the Chemical and Biological Incident Response Force. “Anybody who doesn’t think there are terrorists out there should open their eyes.”
Featuring backing music from members of Toby Keith’s Easy Money Band, the song has been played on radio stations across the country. A music video will be released soon.
How did a Louisiana native stationed in Indian Head, Md., find himself recording music in Nashville? It began when another Marine, Maj. Deryl Michael, and Tim Hernandez, a friend who had worked in the music business, watched the Dixie Chicks accept their Grammy on TV in 2007. They decided that night to write a response song and find an active-duty serviceman to sing it.
“It didn’t have to be a Marine, but it had to be someone in the military who had already been to Iraq or Afghanistan to lend credibility to the song,” said Michael, a staff secretary at Marine Forces Reserve in New Orleans.
Thanks in part to a 2004 Associated Press photograph taken of Thibodeaux holding a guitar in Iraq, they eventually found him in Maryland.
“I was a little intimidated when I found out who I’d be playing with,” Thibodeaux said. “But they were really great to me and even thanked me for my service. It was a great experience.”
(Marine Corps Times)
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That was a great song. Good answer back to the ditzy chicks
March 18th, 2008 at 6:26 pmThis is great I am sending it to my son now before he deploys. Thanks.
March 18th, 2008 at 6:32 pmHe’s way more purty than the Dixie Chicks! Sings purtier too!!
March 18th, 2008 at 6:49 pmThis young man is the heart and soul of America, the embodiment of all the fighting men that have gone before him and an American Hero in the truest sense of the word.
March 18th, 2008 at 7:02 pmThis is why we must not let this country fall into the hands of those who would denigrate his service and sacrifice with an exhibition of monumental cowardice.
This is the real America, John Kerry failed to recognize in 2004; neither Obama nor Clinton will learn from Lurch’s mistake, mark my words. God bless you, Gyrene!
March 18th, 2008 at 7:28 pmOutstanding!!!
March 18th, 2008 at 7:49 pmnice answer to the ditsy shits!
March 18th, 2008 at 8:07 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ8WzYc32JQ
Protesting the Dixie Chicks : See time mark 1:45 for me and my family . . .
I guess it is now that I must share with my Pat Dollard friends about the day I protested the Dixie Chicks . . .
We were huge Dixie Chicks fans - had seen them so many times here in Texas and had spent tons of money on their stuff - we personally made them rich - my daughter plays the violin because of Marty - ughhhh! . . . we were so disappointed in them. To be Texas country music fans, the comment was an especially huge slap in the face - Not just the initial comment but all subsequent comments - They called their fans ignorant basically for not agreeing with them . . . and they were awarded Grammy on top of Grammy for their hate.
That day, we had just left Fort Hood seeing off my nephew who was being deployed to Iraq and so we came back home to DFW, made our signs, and stood outside the concert
“protesting” them (July 2003) - I am holding the sign that says “We are ashamed Natalie is from Texas” with my back (and my big fat Texas butt)to the camera . . . My husband is holding the sign that says, “Toby says NO THANKS, Natalie” in response to her FUTK tee shirt on the award show.
My daughter is between us.
I exposed my 11 year old daughter to some pretty hateful and disgusting stuff that day . . . lots of Anti-American people strolling into American Airlines Center in Dallas. One mother sent her daughter over to my daughter and told her “my mom said to tell you that you suck” . . . My daughter started crying. I felt horrible.
All the tickets were sold out before Nat’s big mouth remark in London, but it was still surprising and disappointing to see how many people showed up and supported them - and how many people flipped us the bird and yelled disgusting things in front of my daughter - Dixie Chicks fans are not nice - although there were a few who came to try to sell their tickets - there were no takers that day - the scalpers were very pissed off. One guy came and tore his tickets up for the news cameras. We had a few other supporters who came to protest, but not many . . . it was a very disappointing day, but I felt we had to do something . . . to honor my nephew.
I like this video - especially how it lists all the terrorist attacks - but it brings back bad memories about the Dixie Chicks. I prefer not to think about them. I am ashamed they are from Texas.
March 18th, 2008 at 8:18 pmIt might be streatching it to call the Dixie Chicks’ song a “hit”, but good for him.
March 18th, 2008 at 9:21 pmThat was very brave and honorable of all of you Texas mom.
One thing is for sure, there are a lot of nuts in this country.
And I agree that it was disgusting to watch them get Grammys for political reasons and not for their music.
March 19th, 2008 at 4:33 amI feel sorry for the other artists who never stood a chance.
First, young men & women like the guy make me really proud to be American!
However, is there a chance these Dipsy Chickens can sue Cpl. David Thibodeaux for copy right/trade mark infringement? If so, what can we do to discourage such?
March 19th, 2008 at 7:39 ami’m not typically a fan of americana/country but that song is good.
up yours dyksie chicks
March 19th, 2008 at 8:26 amJust curious (I’m from the foreign soil Natalie made her original comment, so theoretically an ally): why is the American Right so ready to support what its told to support, to twist facts to suit what it is told to believe, and put a “boot up the ass” of anyone the self-proclaimed world leaders of Democracy and freedom of speech dislike?
March 20th, 2008 at 1:04 pmIt’s perfectly obvious that Cpl David was hand-picked to front for the writers, TK’s own band, and the group who planned this: non-artists who profess to be “just a country boy” don’t get huge publicity for their first recording, with professionally designed websites and MySpace pages, together with promo videos. And hopefully a US Marine would not, off his own bat, distort and twist what the song is attacking (it’s easy to spot the vicious nastiness in the song and video).
Why does none of this matter?