"Redneck Woman" | ||||||||
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Single by Gretchen Wilson | ||||||||
from the album Here for the Party | ||||||||
B-side | "Here for the Party" | |||||||
Released | March 23, 2004 | |||||||
Format | CD single | |||||||
Recorded | 2004 | |||||||
Genre | Country | |||||||
Length | 3:42 | |||||||
Label | Epic | |||||||
Writer(s) |
John Rich Gretchen Wilson |
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Producer(s) | Joe Scaife Mark Wright |
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Gretchen Wilson singles chronology | ||||||||
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"Redneck Woman" is the a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Gretchen Wilson. It was released in March 2004 as the lead-off single to her multi-platinum debut album Here for the Party. The song was also Wilson's only number one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, and also earned her a No. 22 pop hit in the U.S. Wilson wrote this song with John Rich.
The song, which is considered Wilson's signature song, also earned a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 2005.
The song appears on the games Karaoke Revolution Country and “Country Dance”.
In 2005, Jill Johnson covered the song on her album Being Who You Are.
In the video, Wilson is depicted performing in a western-style club with a live band, cage girls dancing in the background, and patrons in the crowd that are drinking beer. Scenes of Wilson driving a 1973-87 General Motors pickup truck and a four-wheeler through the mud with two men are interspersed throughout the video. The music video includes the following guest stars: Big and Rich, Tanya Tucker, Hank Williams, Jr. and Kid Rock. The music video was ranked #11 on CMT's 100 Greatest Videos in 2008.
The song spent five weeks at number 1 on the Hot Country Songs charts. In doing so, it became the first number 1 hit on that chart for a female solo act since "Blessed" by Martina McBride in April 2002, and the first for Epic Records Nashville since "It Must Be Love" in December 1998.