When The Chicks wrote and recorded Gaslighter, their first album together in 14 years, there was no pandemic. Black Lives Matter protests had not yet roiled the country. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was still at her post. And the trio of artists—Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer—were still calling themselves the Dixie Chicks, as they had for three decades. But by the spring of 2020, just as they were planning to release their music, things changed.