Laura Lynch is an American

United States

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 country musician

Musician

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 and songwriter

Songwriter

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, who is best known as a founding member of the all-woman country music band the Dixie Chicks

Dixie Chicks

The Dixie Chicks are an American country band which has also successfully crossed over into other genres. The band is composed of founding members Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Erwin Robison, and lead singer Natalie Maines...

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Biography

Lynch is a self-proclaimed "Cowgirl". She is an acoustic bassist and single mother. Lynch toured and played in Japan

Japan

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 as a member of a group known as the Texas Rangers, a play on the name of the famous law enforcement agency

Texas Ranger Division

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Back home in Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, Lynch successfully became a founder of the Dixie Chicks

Dixie Chicks

The Dixie Chicks are an American country band which has also successfully crossed over into other genres. The band is composed of founding members Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Erwin Robison, and lead singer Natalie Maines...

, a bluegrass

Bluegrass music

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 country music

Country music

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 band who hailed from the Dallas area, when she was 33 years old. She was the group's bassist

Bassist

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, co-lead singer, and occasional songwriter

Songwriter

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. Robin Lynn Macy

Robin Lynn Macy

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, a co-lead singer and guitarist

Guitarist

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, and sisters Emily Erwin

Emily Erwin

Emily Robison is an American songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and a founding member of the female country band the Dixie Chicks. Robison plays banjo, dobro, guitar, bass, mandolin, accordion, and sitar...

 and Martie Erwin

Martie Erwin

Martie Maguire is a Grammy Award-winning American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and a founding member of the female alternative country band, the Dixie Chicks. She won awards in national fiddle championships while still a teenager...

, who were both multi-instrumentalists and backing vocalist

Backing vocalist

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s, rounded out the group. All four women collaborated in songwriting.

Career

Commercial success continued to grow for the Dixie Chicks. By 1995, they were opening for some of the biggest names in country music, and were being scouted by Sony to launch their new label Monument records. Laura had been planning to leave for a year. She offered to stay long enough for the first cuts on the new album, which would include their playing for the Texas Governor's inaugural and an already planned Japan tour. They mutually agreed her leaving later would send a mixed message to Sony, so she departed to spend more time with her teenaged daughter. After her departure, Lloyd Maines gave the sisters Natalie's audition tape, and they invited her to join the group. They had prior commitments to meet and needed another member.
In an interview, Laura said:
By her own description Lynch "cried every day for six months" after the change. She eventually left the music business, married Mac Tull in 1997, and moved to Weatherford, Texas

Weatherford, Texas

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 before Mac won the Texas Lottery in 1999 for $29 million.

Lynch is an enthusiastic advocate for the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame

National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame

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Laura Lynch now lives in El Paso, Texas.
She works for Coldwell Banker deWetter Hovious real estate selling homes.