Gretchen Wilson works on a Taylor Swift-like revision of “here for the party” debut LP with a very special turn

If it feels like it was a minute since you heard about Gretchen Wilson, you are not wrong. The “Redneck”, non-Country star for your independent series, which was awarded the Grammy, has not published no album with brand new material since 2017 Ready to get Rowdy Or a single since 2024s of the “Little Miss second”, a unique continuation of “Homrowrecker” from 2005.

But after winning the 13th season 13 of The masked singer This week Wilson tells Advertising board She is ready to lock things out of the spotlight after a long time, as a serious health problems with an all-star restart in the Taylor Swift style.

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“I had a few healthcare system after the covise, I am a long -distance Advertising board In her Masked singer End the interview about why she has been a lot of the radar in recent years. “I also danced with a 6-year-old boy at a wedding, turned, turned, turned, then I lost myself and smashed my ankle and my leg, so I spent eight months in a wheelchair in a line-up.”

Wilson says that the cascade of health problems was wondering whether she may still have endurance in August to make “a 75-minute show in Yuma, Az”. But after the reality singing show knocked and she had a season run Nageling Rock, Pop, R&B and Latin Dance Pop, she realized that she was ready to return to the spotlight.

The 51-year-old Wilson, who currently has “many iron in the fire”, reveals that the most exciting thing for the tap this year has a “reprocessing” of her breakthrough in 2004. Here for the party. “I will do my version, as Taylor did, but on my label [Redneck Records]”, She says.” But instead of reproducing it in the same way, I will have a guest singer in every song. I have a few absolute yes so far, but I have been waiting for it [post-Masked Singer] Wait, so that when I do the rest of the calls, are faster. “

While it is still in the works, Wilson has so far been proud to tease a duet with Travis on a nameless song what she wanted to do her entire career. “I can't imagine any other voice that would match me perfectly,” she says. She also revised her song “Chariot” with Country Trio Chapel hard and has a number of sensors to some “big names” that she can't talk about yet.

“I want to make sure [they know] I don't try to reinvent myself with the album, I have other things in advance and that will be good for her, ”she said about the message to the A-List employees for whom she is turning.

One of these other iron is a role as a “tour manager” or, as it described it as a “Tour Momager” in the upcoming music competition series The street. The show Executive by Taylor Sheridan (produced by Taylor Sheridan (LandmanPresent Mayor of Kingstown), Blake Shelton, David Glasser, Lee Metzger and Keith Urban are said to have its premiere on CBS and Stream in autumn.

“Tour manager is the most difficult job because everything comes up to her,” laughs Wilson. “Obviously, I did not have to do all the jobs in this production that a tour manager did – I didn't shrink into the buses or hotel rooms – but on site I did all other parts that a tour manager does: to get you on and off the stage to ensure that you take care of yourself, discuss with the songs.

She says none of the candidates on the show are “super young”, but most are younger than her and she calls them “children” because they are honest, they do not have the experience that they have had on the street. From playing in three or four bars bands at the same time at the same time to the tour of the world, Wilson says that her experience of Road Dog in gold is worth its weight because it helps the participants move through the country. “What my job was to give them my experience, every know -how that I have won over the years, any tricks or secrets I know,” she says. “It is not difficult: be early, hold the flap, don't talk too much, save it for the show. Only someone who bounces ideas to shout.”

In the meantime, Wilson has a summer full of shows in her calendar, including slots at the Natchitoches Jazz and R&B Festival in Natchitoches, LA, as well as a place at the Hoofbeat Country Fest in Cadott, Wi on the weekend of June 26th to 28th and a Grand Ole Opry House Show on July 8th in Nashville.

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