Gretchen Wilson

The title track of Gretchen Wilson's third album has her insisting that she's "more than just one of the boys" in an attempt to prove that there's more to her than the trailer-park queen image that she'd previously donned. And she's inflecting more like Natalie Maines on dainty, womanly songs like "The Girl I Am" and "Come To Bed." But fear not! The rocking "You Don't Have to Go Home" finds her throwing the boozy punches we all fell in love with, and "If You Want a Mother" rolls hard with tough chick threats and a shaking fist, further proving that you can take the girl out of the doublewide...

On her third album, Illinois-bred country powerhouse Wilson again keeps it real like
Budweiser and peeling paint. The barroom anthems and twangy rockers kick butt here;
there are also ballads, most of which stink. But while there's nothing as exciting as
"Redneck Woman," Wilson's straightforward, pretense-free approach yields good stuff, like
the very catchy title track and the ZZ Top-esque "There's a Place in the Whiske... More >