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Article: BAYFEST 2007 - Rowdy country singer Gretchen Wilson lets fans see a softer side

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NEW YORK » When Gretchen Wilson finally got her record deal, she told the execs at her label three things they should never ask her to do: Lose weight, cut her hair or 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 her multiplatinum 2004 debut album "Here for the Party" and what would become her signature song, "Redneck Woman," Wilson's rowdy outlaw persona became her most popular attribute, which she also played up on her second platinum disc, 2005's "All Jacked Up."

THESE DAYS, ...

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