Thank Heavens for Dale Evans is the debut studio album byAmericancountry music band theDixie Chicks. The group's original membership of Robin Lynn Macy, Laura Lynch,Martie Erwin, andEmily Erwin (whose names were respectively changed to Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer upon marriage) would survive intact for only this album and the followingLittle Ol' Cowgirl, from 1989 to 1992, before first Macy, and then Lynch departed andNatalie Maines took over in 1995, creating the trio that became the highly successful band which found great fame in 1998 and remain popular with a large following to this day.
