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Article: gretchen wilson is more than A redneck woman.(Daily Break)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 31, 2007
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Byline: NEKESA MUMBI MOODY
NEW YORK -- BY nekesa mumbi moody
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - When Gretchen Wilson finally got her record deal, she told the label execs three things they should never ask her to do: lose weight, cut her hair, wear a dress.
A proud, beer-drinking, tobacco-chewing, jeans-wearing tomboy, she wasn't about to get glammed-up like country's other female stars to achieve chart success.
She didn't have to.
With the massive success of her multiplatinum 2004 debut, "Here for the Party," and what would become her signature song, "Redneck Woman," Wilson's rowdy outlaw persona became her most ...