Gretchen WIlson has been sounding great on the Mane Stage, playing hits like "Here For the Party" and "Homewrecker."

She also played a new song, "Growin' Up Down South," off the album she is currently recording. Her fourth effort is due in September.

What strikes me as odd, though, is that while she sounds totally on, she's not really dynamic on stage and at least on the big screen, she looks a little tired.

My favorite part of her set was the rock cover break (because everyone does a cover at Stagecoach) when she asked the audience "Are you ready to rock and roll out there?"

She covered Journey's "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" and man, Journey should have hired her to replace Steve Perry. Not only did she sound awesome, but her hair is way better than the mullet Steve was rockin' in the 1980s.

Then she did Heart's "Barracuda."

As my colleague Fielding Buck noted--"Guitar Hero" has really changed the landscape of music.

Wilson is closing with her breakthrough hit "Redneck Woman" and is getting the crowd to sing along with the chorus.

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