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BONUS: Gretchen Wilson’s Redneck Road

Rolling Stone All Access

Rolling Stone

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

4.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On this special bonus episode of Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast, we welcome Gretchen Wilson to the Nashville Now cabin to talk about CBS’s hot new competition series, The Road, created by Yellowstone’s Taylor Sheridan. Gretchen is the “tour manager” to the contestants and shows them the ropes of a life lived on a bus and on a stage. She also opens up about the enduring appeal of her signature hit, “Redneck Woman,” and how it changed the game more than 20 years ago.   Country is Here…Nashville is Now.   Check out our ⁠Hear Now⁠ playlist on Spotify, updated weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We are here for a special bonus episode, a Rolling Stone's Nashville Now podcast.

0:44.5

I'm Joseph Hudak, your host, senior music editor of Rolling Stone.

0:48.5

We are here to welcome Gretchen Wilson.

0:52.6

Gretchen Wilson is on a new CBS reality competition series called The Road.

0:58.8

We hope you're all watching because we've sure been. It's pretty damn cool. As opposed to some of

1:03.9

them other reality competition shows out there where they're just singing and kind of doing their

1:08.5

thing. This one really follows these 12 contestants.

1:11.6

Well, it was 12 when they started. Right now, it's a little less than that. But it follows them

1:17.0

on the road, on tour as they open for Keith Urban, who is kind of like the host of this show,

1:25.0

along with Blake Shelton, who is a producer. He is on camera and our

1:29.2

guest, Gretchen Wilson. Important to note, the road is created and produced by Taylor Sheridan.

1:35.5

You all, who are watching this, I have a good feeling that you are all watching Taylor Sheridan's

1:40.7

other shows. Yellowstone, Landman, my goodness, what else is there? Tulsa King is just a whole

1:48.8

empire that Taylor has created and now dipping his toes into live music, reality show,

1:57.0

competition stuff. But listen, having Gretchen here, it's kind of a full circle moment. I first

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