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Gretchen WilsonHere For The Party Epic/Sony There's been a sizeable TV advertising spend for the lovely Ms Wilson, and I like it simply because anyone who has a quad bike and likes getting dirty with it is a winner in my books (although she is sans helmet), and straight up you know that Gretchen is a country singer, and she's here for a good time, not a long time. There's nothing cerebrally challenging here, being similar to perhaps early releases by Shania Twain or the Dixie Chicks: banjo, pedal steel, fiddle and acoustic guitars are abundant. Opening with the anthemic Here For The Party - a real hoe down, feet stomping, boot scootin'number - you know that seriousness is not too high on the agenda. This is a good-ole-girls-hell-I'm-proud-to-be-an-American song with lines like "Well I'm an eight ball-shooting double fisted drinking son of a gun": an 18-wheeler trucker's dream, methinks! The party continues in Redneck Woman, which gives it all away in the title, let alone in its call/response chorus of "Hell yeah!" and "I say hey ya'll and yee haw". It's not all down-home hokey though. Gretchen has obviously been on the end of some relationship problems, with the heartrending pedal steel of When I Think About Cheatin' and the Lynyrd Skynyrd-esque opening riff of Homewrecker. And of course, being a good ole country girl from the land of the free and brave, Ms Wilson sings about finding religion (at the age of 8 mind!) and how delivery will take place via a Trans Am chariot in Chariot, and is the first country song I've heard with a rap verse in it, go figure. So, to summarise: not one for the vodka cruiser brigade in their two-door coupes, more for the rum/bourbon/scotch & cola in the utes type. Better than enjoyable.  |
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