Vicky Lynn McGehee is an American

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songwriter. Among the songs that McGehee has written are "Heart Hold On" by

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All Jacked Up ''All Jacked Up'' is the second studio album by American country music artist Gretchen Wilson, released on September 27, 2005, by Epic Nashville. It debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 with 264,000 copies sold in its initial week. Th ...

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Gretchen Wilson Gretchen Frances Wilson (born June 26, 1973) is an American country music singer and songwriter. She made her debut in March 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman", a number-one hit on the '' Billboard'' country charts. The so ...

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Big & Rich Big & Rich is an American country music duo composed of Big Kenny and John Rich, both of whom are songwriters, vocalists, and guitarists. Before the duo's foundation, Rich was bass guitarist in the country band Lonestar, while Kenny was a solo ...

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Tim McGraw Samuel Timothy McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American country singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has released 16 studio albums (11 for Curb Records, four for Big Machine Records and one for Arista Nashville). 10 of those album ...

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" by the JaneDear girls, " It's Just That Way" by

Alan Jackson Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for blending traditional honky-tonk and mainstream country pop sounds (for a style widely regarded as "neotraditional country"), as well as penning many ...

, and " I Will Not Say Goodbye" by

Danny Gokey Daniel Jay Gokey (born April 24, 1980) is an American singer and former church music director from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the third-place finalist on the eighth season of ''American Idol''.

. She also composed several tracks on Wilson's first two albums. McGehee won a Songwriter of the Year award from

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in 2005. In 2011, she signed a contract with Peer Music.

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