Holdin' You by HappyBunny

"1st N.B.C. Invitational" - Round 1
For this round, you will be submitting a song recorded by your favorite SOLO country performer.

Gretchen is one of my favorite artist in the country genre, she has come a long way to where she today. Her songs have a lot of meaning in them, and alot of them are up beat. Red neck Woman is one of my favorites that she sings, just showing that she can be herself with out all the "high" class material items that people seem to want now a days. The song that i'm singing here....Hold'n You, shows that when you have a loved one in your life, they can be your rock when things seem to be going wrong.

Gretchen Frances Wilson
was born in Pocahontas, Illinois , June 26, 1973 to a 16-year-old mother. Her father left before she was two years old, and she and her mother lived in trailer parks and relative poverty.

Gretchen's mother worked as a waitress, and Wilson herself dropped out of the 9th grade at age 15 to work as a cook and bartender in rural Illinois. In 2007, she completed the GED program.

She made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman"; a Number One hit on the Billboard country charts the song served as the lead-off single to her debut album Here for the Party. Wilson followed this album one year later with All Jacked Up, the title track of which became the highest-debuting single for a female country artist upon its 2005 release. A third album, One of the Boys, was released in 2007.
Overall, Wilson has charted thirteen singles on the Billboard country charts, of which five have reached Top Ten: the Number One "Redneck Woman", as well as "Here for the Party" (#3, 2004), "When I Think About Cheatin'" (#4, 2004), "Homewrecker" (#2, 2005), "All Jacked Up" (#8, 2005). The album Here for the Party was certified 5× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for sales of five million copies; All Jacked Up was certified platinum and One of the Boys certified gold.