One of the Boys

Artist	Gretchen Wilson
Format	CD
Genre	Country
Label Name	Columbia Nashville
Producer	Mark Wright, Gretchen Wilson, John Rich
Release Date	2007 05 15
Song List	1: The Girl I Am (3:30) 2: Come to Bed (3:53) 3: One of the Boys (3:37) 4: You Don't Have to Go Home (3:19) 5: Heaven Help Me (3:24) 6: There's a Place in the Whiskey (3:01) 7: If You Want a Mother (3:33) 8: Pain Killer (3:42) 9: There Goes the Neighborhood (2:57) 10: Good Ole Boy (2:53) 11: To Tell You the Truth (3:31)
Style.Categories	Contemporary Country, Country-Pop

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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