Crazy on Her
Cute as a bug and not much bigger, “Redneck Woman” Gretchen Wilson blew into the Austin City Limits studio Monday night for the only taping of the season sponsored by Jack Daniel’s instead of Anheuser-Busch. (That’s not true, but it should be.) Expected to clean up at next week’s CMA Awards in New York, Wilson ably matched her sevenpiece band’s meaty country-rock with gale-force vocals and appealing vulnerability on weepers like “When I Think About Cheatin’.” “Rebel Pride” was a twangy twin to “Paradise City,” “All Jacked Up” a Dixie-fried romp, and a dynamite cover of Heart‘s “Barracuda” had some of us mourning the loss of Led Zeppelin‘s “Black Dog” from the set list.This article appears in November 11 • 2005.