"Redneck Woman" is the debut single of American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Gretchen Wilson

Gretchen Wilson

Gretchen Frances Wilson is an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman," a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party...

. Released in 2004, the single served as the lead-off to her multi-platinum debut album Here for the Party

Here for the Party

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. The song was also Wilson's only number one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, and also earned her a No. 22 pop hit in the U.S.

The song, which is considered Wilson's signature song

Signature song

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, also earned a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance

Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance

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 in 2005.

The song appears on the games Karaoke Revolution Country and “Country Dance”.

In 2005, Jill Johnson

Jill Johnson

Jill Anna Maria Johnson, , is a Swedish country- and pop-singer and songwriter. She performed the Melodifestivalen 1998 winning song Kärleken är, and represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 with that song, which finished 10th with 53 points. In 2003 she again entered Melodifestivalen...

 covered the song on her album Being Who You Are

Being Who You Are

Being Who You Are was released on 23 March 2005 and is an album from Swedish pop and country singer Jill Johnson. It peaked at #4 at the Swedish album chart.-Track listing:#God Bless a Girl in Love - 3:07#So Much Love to Make - 3:36#A Little Bit More - 4:14...

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Music Video

In the video, Wilson is depicted performing in a western-style club with a live band, cage girls dancing in the background, and patrons in the crowd that are drinking beer. Scenes of Wilson driving a pickup truck

Pickup truck

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 and a four-wheeler through the mud with two other men are interspersed throughout the video. The music video includes the following guest stars: Tanya Tucker

Tanya Tucker

Tanya Denise Tucker is a female American country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13...

, Hank Williams, Jr.

Hank Williams, Jr.

Randall Hank Williams , better known as Hank Williams, Jr. and Bocephus, is an American country singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock, blues, and traditional country...

 and Kid Rock

Kid Rock

Robert James "Bob" Ritchie , known by his stage name Kid Rock, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and rapper with five Grammy Awards nominations...

. The music video was ranked #11 on CMT's 100 Greatest Videos in 2008.

Chart performance

The song spent five weeks at Number One on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

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Chart (2004)	Peak position

"Redbird Fever"

In late 2004, Wilson recorded a re-written version, titled "Redbird Fever" to commemorate the St. Louis Cardinals

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' entering the World Series

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(as well as her devotion to the team). "Redbird Fever" spent one week at #60 on the country singles charts dated for the week ending November 13, 2004.