Watch out Gwyneth: Jennifer Aniston is Going Country

Jennifer Aniston knows all about heartbreak – the hard stuff that country music is made of.

Aniston will have the opportunity to channel her pain into a twang as she takes on the role of a country music singer in an upcoming moving about The Goree Girls. According to USA Today, Aniston will portray a member of the 1940’s group that she describes as “the Dixie Chicks of their time.”

The Dixie Chicks are known for the outspoken spirit, as were The Goree Girls, a group that actually began inside a prison. Aniston will play Trisha Durant, one of the eight female inmates who formed a country-western band inside the Texas Goree State Farm Penitentiary. The public loved the group so much that the women were all ultimately pardoned.

PopEater reports that Aniston will co-produce the project with big co-star names like Kelly Rowland, Pam Tillis and Ellen Pompeo.

Sounds like something that Gwyneth Paltrow, “Country Strong” star, would enjoy, too.It's not clear if Aniston will follow in Gwyneth's footsteps and do her own vocals, but sources report that Aniston can sing and that the singer had planned on learning to play the guitar for the movie. The director of the film, Michael Sucsy, compares her intentions to those of the character she’ll be playing.

Apparently, the inmates only learned to sing and play so that they could try to get out of jail.

"These women learned to harmonize and they learned to play instruments," Sucsy told “E!” in 2009. "They weren't these amazing, accomplished singers who banded together. That's what's interesting about it. It's not just like, 'Hey, you can play the guitar, I can play the piano, I can play the harmonica. Let's put a band together.' It's like, 'We have to get out of jail, and if we have to put a band together to do that, then that's what we're going to do."