Court Yard Hounds is an American
country music and
folk duo, founded by sisters
Martie Maguire and
Emily Robison. They, along with
Natalie Maines, make up the
Dixie Chicks. The sisters decided to record a side project under a different name. Court Yard Hounds, featuring Robison for the first time as lead vocalist, released a debut album for
Columbia Records, the same label for which the Dixie Chicks has recorded, on May 4, 2010. The album debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 chart, initially selling 61,000 copies. It has sold approximately 825,000 copies in the United States.