They knew it would be a tough year to comeback to a market that had treated them pretty badly in the last few years, but even The Dixie Chicks have to be a little surprised that their sales have been low enough to warrant the cancellation of over a dozen stops on their world tour. Well, the group and its people spin the cancellations a different way, painting it more as a reconfiguration of their tour, noting that all fourteen canceled concerts have been replaced by a show in another city. In other words, The Dixie Chicks are no longer going to a town that they had trouble selling tickets in, they're going to a different city. It's a "revised itinerary," not a series of canceled concerts.

Either way you look at it, the revised itinerary for The Dixie Chicks comes on the heels of reports of very slow concert sales, particularly in the South and Midwest for the recently launched tour. The tour, which kicked off July 21st in Detroit, will no longer be heading to Kansas City, St. Louis, Memphis, Houston, or Knoxville and shows in Nashville, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Denver will be rescheduled for later dates.

Note to Mel Gibson: Don't think this same thing can't happen to you.