Word: redneck
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...storm arrived. He's living in the woods just north of Gulfport off Highway 49. "Everything I own now is in that truck," he told TIME, "but the shelters are too overcrowded and uncomfortable. I was born and raised on this coast, so I'm a good little redneck. I got a bow and arrow to kill food, and that's what I'm going to be eating." Where will he go from here? "I don't know," he said. "But at least in the woods I don't have to smell the dead bodies...
With Gretchen Wilson's debut album, the 4 million-selling Here for the Party, the world learned that she's a Redneck Woman. What will we find out when she releases her follow-up, All Jacked Up, on Sept. 27? "That I have a lot more control of my music," says Wilson, laughing. "Like all new artists, I had to make compromises on the first one. A couple of songs weren't totally...
...getting a tooth knocked out when "a big ole girl walked outta the blue/ 10 ft. 2 with a bad attitude." (The video features Kid Rock, the poet laureate of sloshed hookups.) "I'll never run from being trashy," says Wilson. "I love the homemade stuff I get with 'Redneck Woman' on it. Apparently, the Bedazzler is back in." --By Josh Tyrangiel...
...Nashville's Music Row. It was Rich, along with partner Big Kenny Alphin, who came up with the Mafia acronym (Musically Artistic Friends in Alliance) and slogan ("Music without prejudice") and showed the group members how to turn their individuality into hits, co-writing Gretchen Wilson's underclass anthem Redneck Woman and the winningly lewd Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy) for his own duo, Big & Rich. Now Rich is putting his skills behind an act that tweaks Nashville's two greatest taboos--race and musical tradition--and he can barely contain himself. "Cowboy Troy is the only...
...most interesting was a sitcom (NBC's only new one scheduled for fall), My Name Is Earl. Jason Lee plays a "redneck" -Reilly's word, and frankly an accurate one -petty thief who wins $100,000 in the lottery, gets hit by a car, has a spiritual experience involving Carson Daly and decides to make amends for every bad thing he's done. The feel is very Raising Arizona, and it's anyone's guess if red-state viewers will laugh or be offended, but at least NBC has made a sitcom about people who don't drink merlot...