Consisting of 11 tracks, Gretchen Wilson’s Greatest Hits album represents the artist’s run from 2005-2009 as a Sony Music Nashville recording artist and while she didn’t get much bigger than her debut single “Redneck Woman” or the follow-up singles from Here For The Party, Gretchen certainly cultivated a strong image for herself as the voice of the hard-workin’ blue collar woman.  This collection’s best hits are songs which show-off that woman yet there is an oft-overlooked part of Gretchen Wilson’s song catalog.  She can really belt out a stone-cold country ballad as the hits “When I Think About Cheatin’,” “I Don’t Feel Like Loving You Today” prove.

Other standouts on this lean collection include the title tracks to the One of the Boys and All Jacked Up albums and a pair of songs that feature guest vocalists.  “Come To Bed,” written with Gretchen’s Muzik Mafia friend and producer John Rich and “Politically Uncorrect,” which features legend Merle Haggard.  The collection closes with a live rendition of Heart’s “Barracuda,” a song which got tied to Sara Palin during the 2008 campaign trail.   While most fans likely have all but the latter song in their collection, if you’ve been curious about Gretchen Wilson but weren’t ever able to fork down the money to buy the complete albums, this Greatest Hits Collection is the right one to buy and within a few years, if physical product remains, it likely will be the only Gretchen Wilson product available to buy from her brief time as one of the women in country music (unless her own self-issued stuff somehow finds radio airplay).

Note: This album was released to fulfil Gretchen's contract agreement with Sony Nashville.

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