COURT YARD HOUNDS Two former Chicks find a new confidence on their second set Martie Maguire and Emily Robison were still forging an identity beyond the Dixie Chicks when they released a self-titled album as Court Yard Hounds in 2010. Now the sisters are back with a second effort, Amelita—and with it comes a deeper confidence about their musical direction. Their first album was personal, but Maguire and Robison turned their focus outward on Amelita,... 

COURT YARD HOUNDS Court Yard Hounds [Columbia] A side project of Dixie Chicks’ Martie Maguire and Emily Robison, Court Yard Hounds delivers much-anticipated insight—both musical and personal—into the sisters who have for so long ceded center stage to Chicks singer Natalie Maines. Though steeped in familiar instrumentation, the album offers little of the barn-burning brashness that made the Chicks famous (save perhaps the gutsy “Ain’t No...