Gretchen Wilson’s “Redneck Woman” Topped Country Charts 15 Years Ago

Close observers of country music were of two minds when “Redneck Woman,” Gretchen Wilson’s first single, went No. 1 on May 29, 2004, where it would remain for five weeks. But Wilson had the last laugh. The song that the then-30-year-old bartender and single mother co-wrote with John Rich was a veritable rocket to bright lights and big money.