While Gretchen Wilson is sure to get a big, "Hell, yeah!" from the redneck girls like her at BayFest, she's not the event's only music act with a considerable following.

A modern-day country music legend and a hit-making quartet of Canadian angst rockers are also K-Bay bound.

ALAN JACKSON

8:30 p.m. Sunday

Were it not for some dude named Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson would've walked away from the '90s as country music's biggest male star. Still, Brooks' fame has cooled in the post-millennial era, mostly due to a self-imposed semi-retirement, while Jackson's fame has only risen. In fact, Jackson's earnest, largely self-penned contemporary honkytonk finally earned him three Billboard Top 200 album chart-topping discs in the '00s: "What I Do" (2004), "Greatest Hits, Vol. 2" (2003) and "Drive" (2002).

Jackson's albums consistently performed well on the pop chart since the early '90s. But sales of "Drive" — his first No. 1 disc — were largely driven by unabated affection for his fall, 2001 single "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)." A common-folks' lament on the tragic events of 9/11, Jackson's ballad quickly became his 28th No. 1 country hit and his first pop Top 30 hit.

Two years later, his duet with Jimmy Buffett, "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere," became Jackson's first Billboard Hot 100 top 20 pop hit, peaking at No. 17.

Last year's double shot of Jackson discs — "Precious Memories" and "Like Red on a Rose" — became his 10th and 11th No. 1 country albums.

Jackson's most recent album is "Live at Texas Stadium," a recording of a 2004 concert with fellow country music superstar George Strait and Buffett, released in April.

THREE DAYS GRACE

8:30 p.m. today

Before two straight nights of live country turn this year's BayFest into the state's largest honkytonk, lyrically ticked-off quartet Three Days Grace tonight appeases the headbangers with its radio-friendly hard rock.

Surely you remember the 2004 modern-rock radio hit that graced 3DG with its first whiff of fame, "(I Hate) Everything About You." Sample lyric: "I hate everything about you ... You hate everything about me."

Sweet stuff. And deep, too.

3DG's debut had a couple of other hits ("Home" and "Just Like You"), but the band was apparently saving its reserve supply of suburban, Linkin Park-lite teenage angst for the 2006 sophomore disc, "One-X."

Literally written while the band chilled near a campfire with acoustic guitars on a self-imposed hiatus from rock-star temptation, the album's "Animal I've Become" (sample lyric: "Somebody help me tame this animal I have become") and "Pain" (sample lyric: "Pain, I can't get enough/Pain, I like it rough") were both No. 1 hits on Billboard's modern-rock and mainstream rock charts last year.

"One-X" itself peaked at an impressive enough No. 5 on Billboard's pop album chart.

Reach Derek Paiva at dpaiva@honoluluadvertiser.com.