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Article: "Redneck Woman": Gretchen Wilson.(Q and A)(Interview)(Brief article)
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- Redbook
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Country singer Gretchen Wilson has built her career on keeping it real. In her new memoir, Redneck Woman: Stories from My Life, this Grammy winner tells how she spent her childhood moving around to avoid debt collectors and an abusive stepfather, spent her teens bartending and waitressing to make ends meet, and spent her early 20s in Nashville striving to catch a break ... as a singer and as a single mom. She may have left her hard-knock life behind, but this country star won't forget where she came from.
What exactly is a "redneck woman." and what makes you one?
"Redneck" to me means a sense of pride in who you are. When I say I'm a "redneck woman," I ...