THE BEST SIDE OF 2000

After the Dixie Chicks attained their fourth country No. 1 Together with the lovestruck ballad “Cowboy Take Me Away,” the trio loudly reminded the entire world of their audacity with “Goodbye Earl.” Over a banjo-tinged stomp, frontwoman Natalie Maines graphically narrates an abusive marriage (“She’d put on dark Eyeglasses or lengthy sl