She spent her childhood in unenviable circumstances (poverty, father left the family when she was two, trailer parks, working in a bar instead of school, etc.), yet country singer Gretchen Wilson is proud of her background. She sang this in her first single Redneck Woman, a single that immediately set several records in the United States. Redneck Woman can be found on Wilson's debut album Here For
… The Party (2004), which achieved high marks on both the American pop (2) and country charts (1). Although Here For The Party is a typical Nashville product, luckily Wilson manages to give it a slightly different twist. She presents herself unabashedly and honestly as' white trash girl and the music sounds just like that: direct, cheeky, and a lot more punchy than the smoothed-out country pop that usually comes from Nashville. (IV)more
