Available on vinyl for the first time, The Essential Chicks includes 20 tracks from The Chicks' 2010 anthology including their No. 1 country hits "Wide Open Spaces," "You Were Mine," "Cowboy Take Me Away," "Without You," and "Travelin' Soldier" among many more. "It not only brings together our hit singles to date, but it also represents some of our favorite album tracks, which we still perform in concert," said Emily Robison. "Exploding into the collective consciousness in the late-'90s, the group shook country music from its pre-millennial doldrums with the force of a gale," Bob Mehr wrote. "A veritable revolution wrapped in feather boas and fiddle, colorful camisoles and clawhammer banjo, the Chicks became an artistic, commercial, and cultural juggernaut of singular importance - first in country, and eventually far beyond."