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Released
  
May 11, 2004

Here for the Party (2004)
  
All Jacked Up (2005)

Release date
  
11 May 2004

Genre
  
Country music

Length
  
37:36

Artist
  
Gretchen Wilson

Label
  
Epic Records

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Producer
  
Joe Scaife Mark Wright John Rich (associate producer)

Nominations
  
Grammy Award for Best Country Album

Similar
  
Gretchen Wilson albums, Country music albums

Gretchen wilson here for the party


Here for the Party is the 2004 debut album by American country music singer Gretchen Wilson. It reached the top of the US country charts in May 2004 and number 2 on the Billboard 200 album charts.

Contents

Featured on the album is Wilson's breakthrough debut single, "Redneck Woman", a Number One hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. The tracks "Here for the Party", "When I Think About Cheatin'", and "Homewrecker" were also released as singles; these three singles all reached top 5 on the country charts as well.

The album received four Grammy nominations: Best New Artist, Best Country Album, Best Country Song ("Redneck Woman") and Best Female Country Vocal Performance ("Redneck Woman"). Gretchen Wilson won Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

Here for the party with lyrics


Making of the album

Gretchen Wilson was singing in a bar when she met John Rich of Big & Rich, who invited her to work with him. After some persistence, she agreed and joined the MuzikMafia, an informal group of Nashville singers and songwriters that gathered weekly to play songs.

Wilson signed with Epic Records in 2003 and went in the studio with producers Mark Wright and Joe Scaife and Rich as co-producer. The first single, "Redneck Woman," was written as a tribute to women from small-town America.

Reception

"Redneck Woman" was released as a single in early 2004 and reached the top of the Billboard country singles charts and number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album was released in the U.S. on May 11, 2004. It debuted at the top of the country album charts and at number two on the Billboard 200 with 227,000 copies sold. Here for the Party was the fifth best selling album of 2004, with about 2.9 million copies sold.

Musicians

Compiled from liner notes.

Musicians
  • Al Anderson – gut string guitar
  • Big Kenny – background vocals on "The Bed"
  • Mike Brignardello – bass guitar, baritone guitar
  • Tom Bukovac – electric guitar
  • Eric Darken – percussion
  • Larry Franklin – fiddle, mandolin
  • Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar
  • Wes Hightower – background vocals
  • Greg Morrow – drums, percussion
  • Steve Nathan – piano, Hammond B-3 organ
  • Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, banjo
  • Angela Primm – background vocals
  • Michael Rhodes – bass guitar, baritone guitar
  • John Rich – acoustic guitar, background vocals on "The Bed"
  • Joe Scaife – background vocals
  • Trez – background vocals
  • Gale West – background vocals
  • John Willis – acoustic guitar
  • Gretchen Wilson – lead vocals, background vocals
  • Reese Wynans – piano, Hammond B-3 organ

    • Songs

    1Here for the Party3:17
    2Redneck Woman3:43
    3When I Think About Cheatin'4:09

    References

    Here for the Party Wikipedia
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