Gretchen Wilson - One of the Boys

Now this is more like it. A song-by-song retort to fans who might confine Wilson to some trailer-park queendom and to critics who might dethrone her for All Jacked Up, a half-hearted, hurried sequel to her quintuple-platinum debut, Gretchen Wilson's third album fires on all radio-ready-honky-tonk-and-hillbilly-rock cylinders. It's also a portrait of a tough, talented woman making her own way in what's still largely a man's, man's country world. She gets plenty of help from hot Nashville writers John Rich, Rivers Rutherford, and Vicky McGehee, but her working-class and feminist spin on country archetypes--temptation, whiskey, work, and Mom--is authentic and her own. Even when, as on the title track, she revisits "Redneck Woman," she retools the conceits with one of her best melodies. When she goes for the throat on "You Don't Have to Go Home," with a ripping fiddle line and an AC/DC guitar break, she's not just wailing last call: she's showing the whole honky-tonk who's boss. She still loves classic rock boogie--"Place in the Whiskey" quotes both Bob Seger and the melody of "Call Me the Breeze"--but she counters all the butt-kicking with solid ballads like "Heaven Help Me," "Pain Killer," and "To Tell You the Truth," her most heartbreaking and honest lyric. Funny, feisty, rocking and, best of all, true to herself, Wilson didn't really need a comeback album; nevertheless, she's made one that brings her all the way back. --Roy Kasten Amazon.com

Great CD

Got this CD for my girlfriend and she loved it. Its got the slow songs, and some of the rockin' Gretchen we love.
Highly recommended! May 28, 2008

Good stuff

Gretchen Wilson have made a very good album, with this voice and good lyrics she couldn't fail. I have it on my top 15 list of country albums from the later years. This is her best album yet, I hope she keeps them comming. This redneck woman is just great, she knows how to make us listen to her songs.
Fan for life. April 15, 2008

Gretchen Wilson / One of The Boys

This Cd is excellent, a lot of bar songs, but all songs are easy to listen to and they all have a different sound. I highly, highly recommend this Cd. March 10, 2008

The Redneck Woman Is Back

One of the boys............. what can i say?
Gretchen is here again with what could arguably be described as the material remaining in the initial barrel. Dont get me wrong, Redneck Woman did it for me and I have been a fan since but this album was just a little too much the same. It will be interesting to see if an album of fresher material makes it to release before a 'Best Of' disc. January 13, 2008

Gretchen Grows!

ONE OF THE BOYS offers a collection of songs that documents musical superiority. Ms. Wilson continues to convey emotions beyond most, if not all, contemporary country performers. The lyrics for each musical story bares the performer's soul. December 29, 2007

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