I Got Your Country Right Here (Redneck, 2010)
Gretchen Wilson
Reviewed by Tim Johnson
And it works. While the album is uneven at times, there are a number of great tunes here, with Wilson showcasing the rasp and swagger that made her famous on most of the tracks. She doesn't pull any punches, speaking her mind on everything from America ("My flag's still flyin'/There ain't no denyin'/I'm American born and bred/Still proud and united/Bring hell and I'll fight it," on Blue Collar Done Turned Red) to the state of country radio ("Well just the other day I was drivin' down the road/And I thought I turned on my country radio/Well I didn't recognize a single song or none of the names/But it didn't really matter because they all seemed to sound the same," from Outlaws and Renegades). Songs like Trucker Man and Work Hard, Play Harder drive home her connection with the real people, and the title track leaves no doubt that Wilson will never be mistaken for a pop princess. But she has a sensitive side, too, which she exposes that on the album's final song, the lovely, stripped down acoustic track, I'd Love to Be Your Last. Let there be no doubt: the Redneck Woman is back.
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