Gretchen Wilson
Gretchen Wilson
Gretchen Frances Wilsonis an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman," a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party. Wilson followed this album one year later with All Jacked Up, the title track of which became the highest-debuting single for a female country artist upon its 2005 release. A third album, One of the Boys,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth26 June 1973
CityPocohaunts, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Well I'm an eight ball shooting, double-fisted drinking son of a gun
I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.
I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.
Good music is good music.
I'm a mom first, a singer second.
Today, if you were to look at my CD collection, it might scare some people.
What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.
People ask me where I go to get away and I say, 'home'
My daughter is a redneck woman, she's a redneck girl.
All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.
It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway.
Cause I'm a redneck woman.
Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.
We do country, jazz, bluegrass, rock?n?roll with a Pink Floyd-type light show and AC/DC-type pyrotechnics. It?s full on. The best way I can describe it is as a rock show with country music.