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Published on: 1/1/2008
Last Visited: 6/30/2008
Art Direction: Kevin Reagan
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Designers: Kevin Reagan & Bret Healey
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The pop country trio and Open Wide/Columbia Records have once again teamed up with famed art director Kevin Reagan to design their new album, "Taking the Long Way".With 2002's design of "Home", Reagan evoked a compelling journey down a long dirt road that the Chicks have taken to pop success.But with "Taking...", it seems that Reagan was indeed hit by the arrows of the marketing executives.This cover art does what it intends to do, painting a serious, more polished group, stepping out of their town car and on to the cobblestone streets, a long cry from that dirt road they used to call "Home".Now, illuminated by the neon lights, the Chicks have arrived and not without principle.But this art suggests that home grown style has been replaced by Hermes and Gucci shoes.The groups' extremely powerful first single, "Not Ready to Make Nice", may suggest otherwise, but Kevin Reagan failed to match that strength with some balls of his own.