"You Were Mine" is a song recorded by American country music group Dixie Chicks. Released in December 1998 as the fourth single from the album Wide Open Spaces, the song spent two weeks atop the U.S.
Emily Burns Strayer is an American songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and a founding member of the country band the Chicks, formerly known as the Dixie Chicks. Strayer plays banjo, dobro, guit
You Were Mine
…for a week. The song was written in 1995 by two of the founders of the original Dixie Chicks band, the Erwin sisters (now known as Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer), who were accustomed to writing music and performing. Strayer wrote most of the song, and Maguire supplied the bridge. It is a very autobiographical…
Emily Strayer in 2010
With the Dixie Chicks; 1998
Emily in concert with the Dixie Chicks, Austin, Texas, 2006
Emily with the Court Yard Hounds at Antone's, SXSW, March 18, 2010