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Gawler Country Music Club 0outh Australia’s central loca$on for live Country Music proudly presents your monthly newsleCer. September 2015 - No: 268 Gretchen Wilson From Trailer Trash to a Country 0ensa$on n 2004, Gretchen Wilson 6s debut single, “ Redneck Woman ” became the 1rst by a female singer to top the /illboard country singles chart in over two yearsF it also reached number one faster than any single in the previous decade. At the same $me, her debut album, Here for the Party , entered the charts at number one with sales of 223,000 copies, the biggest opening week for a new country ar$st on record. -ilson was immediately hailed as the latest in a long line of country ar$sts leading the music back to its roots. 4er own roots went back to the $ny town of Pocahontas llinois, where she began singing as a child. 4er mother was 16 when she was bornF her father leG when she was two. 0he grew up poor, living in trailer parks. 0he went to school only through the 8 th grade, and at 14 was working as a cook and bartender in the same club where her mother worked. /y the age of 20 she was singing in two diHerent bands. 0he moved to Iashville in 1556 and tended bar while singing on demos and in clubs for the next seven years. 0he became part of an informal group of singers and songwriters known as the Mu2ik Ma3a who met once a week to try out new material. 0he and (ohn Rich , another member of the group (a former member of Lonestar ), wrote “ Redneck Woman ” - an autobiographical Inside this issue song in which she unabashedly celebrated her redneck, This Months /irthdays ..................... 2 white-trash background. In 2003, she audi$oned for and was signed by Epic Records. " Redneck Woman " was released -inners And .rinners ...................... 2 as a single in 2004 and immediately shot up the charts. Here This Months Events .......................... 3 for the Party , originally scheduled for release in (uly, was moved up to May 11 because of Mo Pitney:Clean Up n Aisle 2 ....... 4 the ,uick success of the single. -ilson agreed to opening spots on tours with Brooks & .iggles .alore .................................. 2 Dunn and Montgomery .entry in the summer of 2004. /y this $me " Redneck Woman " Tech Talk ......................................... 6 had become a country anthem and -ilson was a superstar. 0he coped with the instant August .CMC 0how ......................... 3 celebrity status, and con$nued to work as a musician, 1nding $me to write a book (called Redneck Woman) . n 2002, her follow-up album, All Jacked Up appeared. One Of The Boys , .ig .uide ......................................... 8 a deeply personal album, and the 1rst album in which -ilson had a hand in wri$ng most of Music -orkshop & Open Mic .......... 5 the songs, was released in 2003. 4er par$ng album for 0ony was a Best-Of in 2005. 0he Aad, Aave, And Mabel ..................... 10 followed it with her 1rst independently released single on her own Redneck Rec- Coming Events ................................. 11 ords, " Work Hard, Play Harder " in late 2005, Membership Form ........................... 12 followed by the album I've Got Your Coun- CommiCee nforma$on ................... 12 try Right Here in 2010. 0he released the impressive and diverse Right on Time on Redneck Records in 2013, along Must see with an album of covers of 630s rock • -e have a TEC4 TALD this month songs, Under the Covers , and the unravelling the mysteries of the good holiday album Christmas in My olE capo. -ell, wonder no more. Heart . • AonEt miss the Aeni Ute Muster this year. tEs going to be a big one. William Ruhlmann & Steve Legge, • Aave and Mabel are in trouble again. Poor old Mabel has a story to tell this $me that will have you in s$ches. h,p-..www.cmt.com.ar1sts.gretchen-wilson. www.gawlercountrymusicclub.com.au www.facebook.com/pages/Gawler-Country-Music-Club/267502980093560 1 Disclaimer Presidents Report Birthdays The club newsle,er is a monthly publica1on G45ay Members ) 7riends. designed to keep members informed on the Marilyn Troughton - 2nd I will start this report with our AGM. ac1vi1es of the club and other func1ons. Des Buick - 2nd 8ery disappointed with the number of Opinions and views expressed in the newsle,er Phil Dunning - 3rd members that could not spare the 1me are not necessarily those of the publishers. to a,end, but we s1ll had enough mem- Robin Wasley - 10th bers to hold the mee1ng. Your com- Margaret Lukat - 11th A Word From The Editor... mi,ee is listed on the back of this News- Dave Williams - 15th le,er. Not much has changed. Well on- Bill Ordway - 18th 4i Country Music fans. to the show. We had Gary Daniel and Peter Wayman - 18th As you may have heard, have chosen Tru-Country . We had a great day with great music and plenty of dancers. Our Dawn Trezise - 19th not to re-join the commiCee this year, numbers through the door were good Errol Fredricks - 19th and will probably be 1nishing up as edi- considering the entertainment happen- Crystal Antoniazzi - 21st ing at other venue s. tor of the newsleCer and web site at the Anthony Thompson 26th We are looking for a Newsle,er and - end of the year. This is for various rea- Website Editor. If you can help or know Ronda Harris - 26th sons, but mostly due to the fact that someone who is computer friendly Dookie Smith - 26th please let me know. Stewart (our cur- Kym Hitch - 26th have so much going on outside of the rent editor) works full 1me, and he and Rosemarie Grierson - 29th club with lessons, my workshop, numer- his wife Tammie are kept busy with their group Workin’ Overme and other relat- Fred Payne - 30th ous shows, and a full $me job as well. ed ac1vi1es. So we would love to hear My poor family have to book in $me to from anyone interested in the job. see me these days. /ut, don’t worry. Well, onto our September Show. We will have Bernie & the Bandits with two Lou will s$ll see us around at the club very special guest ar1sts - Ella adbone shows and workshops when possible. and Nicola Prince who are very good. am always keen to help the music in- So un1l then= dustry and it’s people. The .awler CMC Keep It Country is a good club with good folks, and great Regards, friends. Keith Warren Deep the ideas and feedback coming in. President/Entertainment Officer always like to hear from you. Peace to all. Stewart Ray Winners Door Prize Monte Carlo Ellen Keen June Everes and Mauigaul DeKock Raffle Dean Bevis Fay Scone Lucky Envelopes May Javis Jill Yitch Snowy Sue Castle Gery Bischoff Wendy Clark Kathy Trankarlis Ron Lang June Everes Maureen Grenn Members Draw Barbara Kennedy #99 - Ron Lang 2 August Events With special guest artists Nicola Prince and Ella Radbone Sunday Sept. 20th 12 - 4 pm Gawler Country Music Club The Grenville Centre. 10 Playford Boulevard. Elizabeth (Across from the Civic Centre) Entry Fee: Members - $6.00, Non Members - $8.00 Tea and coﬀee - $1.00 Food and drinks available Contact Keith Warren for enquiries: 8255 8920 Thanks to KFC for your Sponsorship ‘We like it like that!’ 3 Mo Pitney ‘s “Clean Up on Aisle Five” earned the country newcomer a standing ovation during his Grand Ole Opry debut last year — but if not for a woman he met on a flight, that mo- ment might never have happened. Struck by an attractive woman seat- ed next to him on the plane — ”I tell people that almost never happens. I can’t ever get lucky on an airplane,” he jokes to Buffalo, N.Y., radio sta- tion WYRK — Pitney began a con- versation. Unfortunately, things did- n’t start out the way he’d hoped.“… So, I wasn’t going to let my opportunity fly by since it doesn’t happen every day. I asked her what she was doing and if she was leaving home or headed home and what she did for a living,” Pitney recalls, “and then I asked her what kind of music she listened to, and she said, ‘Anything but country.’ Strike one for me. “So, we talked a little bit longer, and she asked me what I did, and I said, ‘I make music for a living,’ and she goes, ‘Oh, really? What kind of music?’ So I just lifted up my boot, and I said, ‘I rap,’” Pitney continues. “She says, ‘You’re lyin’, you sing country music,’ and I said, ‘Yeah. Since you hate it, I’m going to make you listen to one song.’” Pitney decided to try to convert the country music hater, and he gave her his music to listen to. “I picked ["Clean Up on Aisle Five,"] the country -est song on the record, and I guess I tried to freak her out,” he says. “I played it for her, and she took one headphone off, and she says, ‘I’m warning you, if I don’t like this, I’m probably going to shut it off,’ and I was like, ‘Alright, you’re the kind of audience I like to play for. I like to have a little bit of challenge!’ “I let it play,” Pitney adds. “She let the whole thing play, so that was a plus.” And the woman’s response to the track surprised Pitney. “She took the headphones off, and she said, ‘I don’t know what kind of country music that is, but I love it, and you made me believe every word and feel something.’ She said, ‘I have to hear the rest of your record.’ So I let the rest of the record play on, and we had a new country music convert by the end of the flight,” he says.

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