Best overall!!

For the Nashville Scene’s annual country music poll, over 80 critics from all over North America, from big-city newspapers and glossy mags, from alternative newsweeklies and self-published fanzines, voted on the best country acts and records of 2006:

BEST ALBUMS:
1. The Dixie Chicks: Taking the Long Way

BEST SINGLES:
1. The Dixie Chicks: “Not Ready To Make Nice”

BEST FEMALE VOCALISTS:
4. Natalie Maines

BEST LIVE ACTS:
2. The Dixie Chicks

BEST GROUPS AND DUOS:
1. The Dixie Chicks

BEST INSTRUMENTALISTS:
10. Emily Robison

and...

BEST OVERALL:
1. The Dixie Chicks

YEE-FUCKIN'-HAW!!