‘Catch of the Day’ – Gretchen Wilson – “Rowdy” [AUDIO]

Today we turn our spotlight on an artist who hit the ground running in 2004, with a debut single that not only earned her CMA Awards for Best New Artist and Song of the Year,  but it also earned her a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 2005. Not a bad start.

Gretchen Wilson hit country music in 2004, not like a breath of fresh air, but more like a hurricane looking to rearrange the country music landscape. Her debut single, "Red Neck Woman" became an anthem for women, while her debut album, Here For The Party, featured three more top-5 hits, hit #1 and sold of over 5 million copies. Her next two albums, 2005's platinum album All Jacked Up and 2007's One Of The Boys, both hit #1, but featured just one top-10 single, "All Jacked Up."

Each of her first three albums were released on Epic Records or its parent label Columbia Records. Wilson left the label in 2008 to form her own label, Redneck Records, releasing her first self-produced album in 2010. She has released three studio albums, one Christmas album, one live album and one greatest hits compilation

for the label, but none have met the success of her earlier releases, though her 2010 release I Got Your Country Right Here, did reach #6 on the Country  chart and #3 on the Indy Albums chart. She has broken the top-20 once in that span on the singles chart, in 2009 with "Work Hard, Play Harder", which peaked at #18.

Gretchen is back in the studio, working on music for an as yet untitled project for release in 2017; we have the lead single from the upcoming project in our spotlight today. Gretchen Wilson and "Rowdy" is today's Catch of the Day, new music you haven't heard, but you'll want to hear it again.