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Article: Gretchen Wilson, rinky-tonk: Country's "Redneck Woman" brings her rowdy music to an unusual stage: an ice show featuring champion skaters.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- November 2, 2006
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Byline: Nick Cristiano
Nov. 2--IN HER NEW AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Titled -- what else? -- Redneck Woman, Gretchen Wilson writes that "... I'm wide open to trying new things. I'm not afraid to step out into uncharted territory." The country-music sensation will be doing just that Wednesday night at the Wachovia Center when she stars in "Gretchen Wilson's Country on Ice," as she and her band sing and play while some of the world's top figure skaters perform to the music. The concept is not new, but the idea of executing it with a singer who boasts in her signature hit that she "ain't no high-class broad" and plays a rowdy brand of rocking honky-tonk is certainly novel. ...
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