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| | Tanya Tucker | Gretchen Wilson | music : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY |
 | | ''I know all the words to every Tanya Tucker song,'' Gretchen Wilson boasted in her breakthrough song, listing her credentials as a ''Redneck Woman.'' Now, Wilson and Tucker (who rose to fame as a near-child star in the '70s) have become fast friends. |
 | | This is my verse!''...Gretchen wasn't afraid to say, ''Hell yeah, Tanya influenced me.'' Because there's a lot of people I influenced that would never tell you that, ever. |
 | | GW But when I was 13, I was on stage too, singing for the same kind of crowds [in bars], just not as many of them....Tanya was either blessed or cursed I don't know which she'd say to have gotten there so young, and she grew up on stage in front of us. |
| www.ew.com /ew/report/0,6115,732986_4_0_,00.html (484 words) |
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