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All Jacked Up: Gretchen Wilson
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Unfortunately, All Jacked Up is everything you might expect from a hurried follow-up to a record setting debut. Shunning ambition, it aims for consolidation. There's no standout anthem here, but there are still one or two moments of high quality to savour. Worryingly... none of them were written by Wilson or her team of collaborators.
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The title track, All Jacked Up, is a romp about keeping an eye on your drinking. Wilson knows her way around a bar, she readily admits, and she's not one to shy away from a song about knocking a few back. But there's something responsible about her don't-do-it-while-driving caveat here.
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Wilson's title track single from her forthcoming album "All Jacked Up" is now available as an exclusive 30-second ringtone to Cingular customers. Now country music fans across the country can listen to the hottest female country artist from their wireless phone before the song hits the radio and the release of her album on September 27.
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Actually, it's hard to find a Wilson and team original on All Jacked Up that would've made it onto her debut release. The title track is an awkward attempt to recreate "Here for the Party". "California Girls" is better, but nothing special. And the honkytonkin', product-placin' "One Bud Wiser" and "Skoal Ring" are both good tunes ruined by awful lyrics. "Skoal Ring" is especially risible, although it does deserve mad props for getting the line "he's a long cut man" onto country radio.
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Wilson returns with All Jacked Up, her second disc and first as a genuine Nashville superstar. She isn’t an earth-shattering singer, but she’s a natural and gifted performer. She sings with verve on the underdog anthems and sells the traditional country ballads convincingly. It helps that her backing band is a studio juggernaut of power chords and fiddle runs. Part of what’s missing, though, the second time around, is the sense of arrival which came with “Redneck Woman.” All Jacked Up isn’t just based on the same basic blueprint as Here For the Party—it’s nearly a carbon copy.
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