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00:00:21I'm on the bus, dog's pissed on the floor.
00:00:27We're parked at an angle, and so the feet is running downhill.
00:00:34Watch your feet.
00:00:47The first seed that was planted in my heart as a child to where I am now.
00:00:53I knew that I would be here.
00:00:54There is absolutely no doubt about it.
00:01:01It didn't look like I thought it was going to look at times.
00:01:04Let's give her a nice hand.
00:01:05Lane Wilson.
00:01:10But I believed it.
00:01:13I believed it. I believed it.
00:01:15I didn't try to get my life.
00:01:18I thought you had to put it on my side.
00:01:22Baby, there's everyone that's dancing.
00:01:24The band can train a sideway.
00:01:27The first day I missed you.
00:01:28Could I get just one more day?
00:01:32I ain't got a pocket full of money.
00:01:35I'm here to straight home.
00:01:37Lainey Wilson took home Entertainer of the Year.
00:01:40She is the hottest name in country music right now.
00:01:43New Artist of the Year goes to...
00:01:45Lainey Wilson!
00:01:47And the CMA Award for Album of the Year.
00:01:49The ACM Triple Crown Award.
00:01:51The Grammy goes to...
00:01:53Lainey Wilson.
00:01:54Lainey Wilson.
00:01:54Lainey Wilson, let's go.
00:01:58Man, oh man, oh man, oh man.
00:02:00I'm sure everybody deals with a little bit of imposter syndrome.
00:02:02This is my very first Grammy.
00:02:04If you're going to be a dreamer, you better be a doer.
00:02:07I ain't got money, got a pocket full of money.
00:02:10I'm going to stay home.
00:02:18I'm going to stay home.
00:02:35I think a lot of people probably think that this was an overnight success.
00:02:40I've been here 14 years.
00:02:44So, a 14-year overnight success, if you want to call it that.
00:02:51I spent a decade being the one you didn't see coming.
00:02:54On this tour, I am putting everything I've built on the line to make sure they never forget
00:02:59the name Lainey Wilson.
00:03:01We're in Nashville, Tennessee at a CMA theater.
00:03:04Tickets went on sale today to the public for Country's Cool Again tour.
00:03:09I'm going to get in the box office and go sell some tickets.
00:03:12Just say good morning, everybody.
00:03:13Oh, wait.
00:03:14I'm going to give you a little bit.
00:03:14Just hang out and you'll be able to hear and then we'll be able to hear everything.
00:03:17Can you hear me?
00:03:23Is it actually loud?
00:03:25It's pretty loud.
00:03:26Crank that thing up.
00:03:28People keep saying Country's Cool Again.
00:03:31Well, I say it never stopped being cool.
00:03:33The world just caught up.
00:03:35That's why I named the tour Country's Cool Again.
00:03:38We're about to hit 35 cities across America preaching that same message.
00:03:42Country's Cool Again, y'all.
00:03:44From a truck, on a stage.
00:03:53It's been a long, long time since we have played like a completely new set.
00:03:59It's definitely more theatrical and there's a lot of moving parts, but it's fun.
00:04:11Huntsville, South Haven, Rogers, Arkansas.
00:04:15The night of Rogers, we flew to L.A.
00:04:18I keep low and low.
00:04:22What's going on?
00:04:25They called me the priest.
00:04:27We got it.
00:04:29I keep low and low.
00:04:35I ain't got me no bother.
00:04:39I ain't got you no bother.
00:04:43You can just reshape the lower and upper again, right?
00:04:45Yeah.
00:04:50Hippie, you're not coming with us.
00:04:51I'm so sorry.
00:04:53She always said yeah.
00:04:54Yeah, yeah.
00:04:55You're not coming with us.
00:05:00This is my baby, Hibie Mae Wilson.
00:05:04She's a little potato.
00:05:16I just pussied on y'all's party.
00:05:19I do need to do a local one with me.
00:05:27So Aslan and I had been working together for about nine years.
00:05:30He produced my very first project before I had a record deal.
00:05:35Woo-hoo!
00:05:37Heck yeah!
00:05:38I'd been producing punk Americana, and I went and saw her play, and she played a new song called Dream
00:05:44Catcher.
00:05:45I'll be the truth to the song that makes you feel better, leading you home through all the bad weather.
00:05:52Peace in the night.
00:05:53I'll keep you forever, baby.
00:05:55I'll be your dream catcher.
00:05:58That made me cry in the bar.
00:06:01I had a visceral reaction that I had not had in a long time to music, and so I just
00:06:05talked to her.
00:06:06Actually, we really need to invent a two-sided microphone.
00:06:09That way we could go through like this.
00:06:10Oh my God.
00:06:12That would be fun.
00:06:13I assume what she saw in me was that I was friends with her friends, and I was not charging
00:06:17her very much money.
00:06:20Amanda and I both really thought our friend was talented, and we didn't think enough people were aware of that.
00:06:27There's a lot of good things about having her, but one of the, like, great-assiest things...
00:06:32I never looked like the bad guy.
00:06:34And that's important.
00:06:36Halo.
00:06:37Corn!
00:06:38Yeah.
00:06:39Yeah.
00:06:44Me and Madeleine, we became friends about nine years ago.
00:06:47She was not a manager.
00:06:49I could not get my feet up off the ground.
00:06:51She felt sorry for me and started sending a lot of my music around.
00:06:55She would just randomly get emails of songwriters and stuff, and she would just send my music to them and
00:07:00be like,
00:07:00Hey, would you want to write with this girl?
00:07:02So she was, like, championing me when nobody ever knew who she was.
00:07:06She was just trying to help me.
00:07:09Like, me and Madeleine were dancing on Jackson Dean's bus, and we were just, like, dancing.
00:07:13And we were just having a conversation like this.
00:07:15I think a lot of people have thought our relationship was dangerous.
00:07:22You know, they're best friends.
00:07:23Like, anything could happen and then shit hits fan.
00:07:25But, uh, we just worked through it.
00:07:27To me, that's what makes it even better is our friendship, because, like, no matter what, we're gonna work through
00:07:32it.
00:07:36I'm, like, a facts person.
00:07:38And I'm a feelings person.
00:07:39Yeah.
00:07:40So when you mix those two things together, you're gonna get some arguments every now and then.
00:07:45We were playing a show in Tuscaloosa.
00:07:47It really wasn't that bad.
00:07:48No, it was bad.
00:07:50Okay, well...
00:07:50Because I remember banging on that guitar.
00:07:52Okay, well, I was like, I've got to leave, and then she was like...
00:07:55I was like, did I sound okay or something?
00:07:57And I was like, oh, I've got to get mom's approval, you know?
00:07:59You said something like, you sounded like shit.
00:08:01I turned to leave, and then I remember we sighed.
00:08:03And then I went after, and I was like, we had a scene.
00:08:07We had a scene in the middle of the bar.
00:08:09So everybody saw it.
00:08:10I was like, no, tell me to my face, what?
00:08:13I'm embarrassed.
00:08:14Well, and it really, like, nobody remembers.
00:08:18And I'm probably the only wife that ever thought about it.
00:08:20Nobody remembers.
00:08:22Thankfully.
00:08:25Hold on.
00:08:26Wow, that is an accident waiting to happen.
00:08:28Look at our organized, uh, like...
00:08:30That's our life right there, just hanging on by a thread.
00:08:32Literally.
00:08:45There's Laini, the musician, and there's Laini, the celebrity.
00:08:48But she has this whole other second job she has to do.
00:08:52She views that as, if I do this second job, it helps the first job.
00:08:56If I do this, and this becomes successful, it makes this part more successful, exposes
00:09:02me to more people, we can play bigger shows, I can take care of my people better, we can
00:09:07pay everybody more, we can, you know?
00:09:08It's a constant climb and a constant interchange that just doesn't end.
00:09:15I heard country's cool again, folks.
00:09:21When you're on the road, it is hard to remember where you're at.
00:09:29There's been moments right before I hit the stage where I have to ask my tour manager, where
00:09:34are we?
00:09:39It is a whirlwind.
00:09:40You get to live, like, ten years in one year.
00:09:55So, Grammy Noms came out for Best Country Album.
00:09:59Yep.
00:10:00And it's us.
00:10:01Chris Stapleton.
00:10:02Stapleton.
00:10:03Post Malone.
00:10:04Beyonce.
00:10:05And Casey Musgraves.
00:10:07Yep.
00:10:07Pretty crazy.
00:10:12We have to get seven outfits.
00:10:14Yeah.
00:10:14Multiple CMA hosting outfits, a carpet outfit, a performance outfit, and then the Dallas Cowboy
00:10:21cheerleader look.
00:10:27I've always loved, like, throwback clothes.
00:10:30They made me feel like I could do anything.
00:10:33A little bit of, like, a superhero costume.
00:10:37Had been here in Nashville for a while.
00:10:40I realized you can't just be a decent singer-songwriter as a female.
00:10:46What else are you going to do to get somebody's attention?
00:10:48For me, it wasn't putting on a strappy bikini and shorts going up my butt.
00:10:53I just couldn't.
00:10:54And so, it was bell-bottoms.
00:10:58The way that I dressed was kind of how I sounded, and the way that I sounded is kind
00:11:01of how I dressed.
00:11:02And it all just kind of ebbed and flowed that way.
00:11:11I grew up, like, watching Dolly.
00:11:16In my opinion, it was like the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and Dolly Parton.
00:11:20You know what I'm saying?
00:11:20She would hit all of these high notes, and her arm would go up with a note and then,
00:11:26like, come back down.
00:11:28I was studying.
00:11:29It was school for me.
00:11:32Trying to wrap my head around, what is that moment that, like, brings people in and together
00:11:37and makes them feel like they're not alone?
00:11:40I knew it was my destiny.
00:11:42I'll never forget, like, that feeling that I got in the audience.
00:11:49There's a feeling that I want when I write music, when I get on stage and pour my heart
00:11:54out.
00:11:54It's so good.
00:12:06OK.
00:12:16I was just saying that the sun's over there,
00:12:18so I don't have his eyes, so I'm good.
00:12:24We're in Baskin, Louisiana.
00:12:26We're about 30 miles south of Monroe.
00:12:29I've lived here for 39 years.
00:12:31I've been here all my whole life.
00:12:33I was raised right down there.
00:12:36About a mile down the road.
00:12:49I've played music my whole life, you know,
00:12:52but not nothing fancy, just the guitar and piano.
00:12:57Lainey could sing.
00:12:59She memorized the song, Butterfly Kisses,
00:13:01and she sang that at her kindergarten graduation.
00:13:05Butterfly kisses with her mama there.
00:13:08In any way...
00:13:09I've got a box of stuff.
00:13:10I'm sorry, excuse me.
00:13:11We'd love to.
00:13:12Go ahead.
00:13:12Can I get a box of stuff?
00:13:13Sure.
00:13:14OK.
00:13:15I've got all kinds of stuff in that box.
00:13:17I don't know where it's at.
00:13:18It's in that container out there.
00:13:20The last box that I went and presented?
00:13:22I don't know about that.
00:13:24I think it's in the attic.
00:13:27Uh, it's in the attic.
00:13:28Let me run over here and get this while she's doing it.
00:13:31OK.
00:13:31All right.
00:13:48As a kid, she was really kind, always kind.
00:13:53She was one of these little girls that was, like, very sensitive.
00:13:57Lainey.
00:14:01Music was a big part of my family.
00:14:03My daddy can play guitar by ear,
00:14:06and I just remember him sitting around the house
00:14:08and playing Hank Senior, Hey Good Looking.
00:14:11My mama loves music.
00:14:13She loves to dance.
00:14:14Me and my mama and sister would make up dance routines
00:14:17while my daddy was picking on the guitar.
00:14:19It was the soundtrack of our lives.
00:14:23Lainey, dance for me.
00:14:25I remember, at five years old, feeling like,
00:14:28I think I feel more comfortable on stage than I do anywhere else.
00:14:36Me and my sister, we are very similar, but also very different.
00:14:44Everyone has to see if it could be slender.
00:14:46Do you think?
00:14:47Or my fancy?
00:14:50You gonna sign it?
00:14:52I don't think I have a marker, though.
00:14:54Jason, you got a marker?
00:14:56I mean, it was Mackenzie's, but I think she's given it to somebody.
00:14:59So just sign me your name.
00:15:02Let's just look at that.
00:15:04Let me see Jana.
00:15:05It's so wild how you can grow up to be so different,
00:15:08but be raised as close as we were.
00:15:12I want to try again.
00:15:16Hello.
00:15:17My name is Jana Wilson.
00:15:18I'm from Vasco, Louisiana.
00:15:23You need a new keyboard.
00:15:25The letters don't need to show up.
00:15:28You just know what, you just know where the letters are?
00:15:30It just means I use it to actually work.
00:15:33Does this look legit?
00:15:36Yeah.
00:15:40It was like we never really compared our journeys.
00:15:45It's always been, we have dreams and goals of our own,
00:15:48and we were gonna do whatever we needed to do to get them.
00:15:52Welcome tonight, our beautiful homecoming queen of 2008,
00:15:56Miss Jana Michelle Wilson.
00:15:58Having her as my sister really does help me
00:16:00keep a foot on the ground,
00:16:02because when I get to call back home and see them,
00:16:05I see how the simple things in life
00:16:08are what brings true happiness.
00:16:12Hey, you want me to jump?
00:16:13Yeah.
00:16:14You have to take this, you know.
00:16:16All right.
00:16:16When I go home and I get to, like, play in the yard with them
00:16:19and jump on the trampoline,
00:16:21it definitely connects to my inner child.
00:16:25They don't love me because I'm Laney Wilson.
00:16:27They love me because I'm Wayney.
00:16:30I think just like I was called to do this,
00:16:34I feel it in my heart, too, that I was called to be a mama.
00:16:39That will really change things,
00:16:40because it won't be about just you anymore.
00:16:44And I think...
00:16:45I think it'll be a good feeling for you.
00:16:47I think it'll make the job harder for everybody.
00:16:50I know.
00:16:52Okay.
00:16:54I'm scared.
00:16:57I had this vision and this goal that, like,
00:16:59things were gonna work out for me musically
00:17:01a lot quicker than they had, you know?
00:17:04I'm gonna be married by the time I'm 25,
00:17:06I'm gonna have kids by the time I'm 27, 28,
00:17:09and sometimes the Lord just has other plans.
00:17:15She does want a family, you know,
00:17:18but I don't know how she could go about having children
00:17:22and keep up that pace.
00:17:24Did you talk about getting your eggs frozen?
00:17:25No, but I can.
00:17:26Yeah, we can talk about that.
00:17:27Stay up.
00:17:28I'm gonna freeze my eggs in April.
00:17:30I'm gonna put them babies on ice.
00:17:32Just to make sure.
00:17:34Like, I'll probably be fine.
00:17:35I'm 32, but...
00:17:38I just think I'd be a good mama.
00:17:39I think so, too.
00:17:42I want you to pull somebody close.
00:17:46Y'all, this record we put out,
00:17:48I'm showing a side of me
00:17:48that I didn't even know existed.
00:17:50I'm in a happy, healthy relationship
00:17:52with a man named Duck.
00:17:53You heard it, not Doug.
00:17:55Like, Duck.
00:17:56Like, D-U-C-K.
00:17:57Like, wank, wank.
00:17:58The Lord's got jokes.
00:17:59He's like, you ain't redneck enough,
00:18:00so I'm gonna send you a man named Duck.
00:18:02I'm like, Lord help us.
00:18:04But he is such a great dude.
00:18:05He's my biggest cheerleader
00:18:07during this crazy time of my life,
00:18:08during this crazy season.
00:18:10I keep my people close.
00:18:11And that's what this song was about right here.
00:18:13It's called Four by Four by.
00:18:15Woo!
00:18:31Stan,
00:18:32are we supposed to get a bunch of rain
00:18:33the rest of the week?
00:18:36Arkansas got pounded.
00:18:37They got like six, seven inches.
00:18:40Good duck water.
00:18:45My name's Duck.
00:18:46That's what everyone calls me.
00:18:47I won a world championship duck climb contest
00:18:50when I was like 13 years old.
00:18:53And they were like, it's duck season,
00:18:54it's duck season.
00:18:55So that's kind of where it comes from.
00:18:59I've played football since I was five years old.
00:19:02I went to a small division one school
00:19:04and was fortunate enough to make the Pittsburgh Steelers
00:19:07and was there for two years.
00:19:08My whole goal was to go to NFL
00:19:11so I could buy me a truck and a duck hunting cabin.
00:19:13And that's what I did.
00:19:15Because I really do feel like the outdoors
00:19:17is like a good spiritual place.
00:19:19It's like my other version of church.
00:19:21Like I can really like think about life and whatnot.
00:19:24So...
00:19:24Sorry, I'm interrupting again.
00:19:26Have you seen my cell phone?
00:19:27Uh, I have not.
00:19:30She loses that phone all the time.
00:19:33We met just through mutual friends.
00:19:36I asked her to dinner one night.
00:19:39It's a little hole in the wall, like on the water.
00:19:41I said, that's perfect.
00:19:44I felt like I had known her for years, really.
00:19:46I knew that night, like this was the person
00:19:48I was gonna spend the rest of my life with.
00:19:49I really did.
00:19:51I believe that when the time's right, we'll do that.
00:19:54But I guess I need to ask her first.
00:19:57I need to ask her to marry me first.
00:19:58So we'll have a ring on the finger by then, don't worry.
00:20:02I've got one now.
00:20:04Yeah.
00:20:05I ain't got it on me though.
00:20:08But I got one.
00:20:09I probably had it for a month.
00:20:12Really?
00:20:12Yeah, about a month.
00:20:13She has no idea.
00:20:14I don't actually have a clue.
00:20:15Oh, this is great.
00:20:15Not a clue.
00:20:23The wheel stops spinning completely
00:20:25if I'm not songwriting.
00:20:26Because no matter what,
00:20:27it always comes back to the music.
00:20:29Hello.
00:20:31Good to see y'all.
00:20:35I missed you.
00:20:40We back.
00:20:41We back, baby.
00:20:42All right.
00:20:43It's important for me to always be doing it.
00:20:45Finding time in my tour schedule
00:20:47and making sure that everybody's on the same page
00:20:50about how important it is.
00:20:52I'm always writing for another record.
00:20:55It was like a month before Whirlwind came out.
00:20:57I felt like I had a handful of them.
00:20:59I was ready to go on with the next one.
00:21:01But I love Whirlwind so much.
00:21:02I want it to live its life.
00:21:04I want to give it its moment, you know?
00:21:06Texting my mom.
00:21:07I think I found me a keeper.
00:21:09And he ain't a something something.
00:21:11Hell, he ain't a cheater.
00:21:12Had to kiss a bunch of frogs to find a duck kind of thing.
00:21:15Yeah.
00:21:16We put that in there somewhere.
00:21:17I love that.
00:21:17Or maybe it's like,
00:21:18Me on that floor not thinking about tomorrow.
00:21:22Oh, that's nice, too.
00:21:24Didn't have no money, but it's like we hit the lotto.
00:21:25Oh, that's pretty cool.
00:21:26Like we were broke as shit,
00:21:28but like broke was a joke, but didn't hit the lotto.
00:21:31Now we hit the lotto.
00:21:32That was the night we met.
00:21:33At Silverado's.
00:21:34At Silverado's.
00:21:35That's where you're hanging out there.
00:21:36I was broke.
00:21:37I was so broke when we met.
00:21:38Yeah.
00:21:39And he thought I was doing a little bit better than I was.
00:21:41But a few weeks after we met,
00:21:43my sister had to Venmo me a couple hundred bucks
00:21:45so I could get at Taco Bell a few times a week.
00:21:48So, wandered on downtown to Silverado's.
00:21:51Silverado's.
00:21:51That crowd was line dancing.
00:21:53We were clicking bottles.
00:21:54Damn, it kind of felt like we hit the lotto.
00:21:57Free beer from five to ten.
00:21:59I knew whenever I had written my first song
00:22:02that I loved how it made me feel
00:22:04when I was in the middle of writing the song,
00:22:06when I was coming up with the idea,
00:22:07feeling like,
00:22:08Man, I created something from nothing.
00:22:09How cool is that?
00:22:11And I knew that that feeling was so special
00:22:13that I couldn't completely let it go,
00:22:14and I think that's why I knew it was my calling.
00:22:18I feel like we're writing a record
00:22:21but not even trying to.
00:22:23Yeah.
00:22:23And that is a good feeling.
00:22:24Yeah.
00:22:25Like, I think we're just gonna kind of mess around
00:22:27and end up writing a record.
00:22:28It's just so therapeutic for me.
00:22:31You gotta be taking care of your mind.
00:22:36Yeah, I have three therapists.
00:22:37I just thought about that.
00:22:39That's great.
00:22:39I have two right now, so I'm three.
00:22:41I just started going to therapy
00:22:43in, like, the last couple months.
00:22:46Honestly, kind of growing up,
00:22:47I felt like I won't ever see a therapist.
00:22:50Yeah.
00:22:50A little bit taboo.
00:22:51It was.
00:22:52It was.
00:22:53For me, songwriting is taking care of my mind.
00:23:03When Laney started off doing records,
00:23:07she would record on a CD,
00:23:11and then I'd burn the records for her
00:23:14and make the labels.
00:23:16She did always sing,
00:23:18and then she would enter any contest,
00:23:22and she would win.
00:23:25Because of how much that my family believed in me,
00:23:29that made me feel like I could believe in myself.
00:23:33Because my mama was a teacher,
00:23:34it was almost like she was a facilitator type thing
00:23:37and kind of like a coach.
00:23:38She tried to help me as much as she possibly could
00:23:41and would look for opportunity for me.
00:23:43She's going to come out in just a minute,
00:23:45so don't go anywhere.
00:23:47Y'all make sure y'all hang out,
00:23:48and then later on,
00:23:49she'll be signing an autograph for you, okay?
00:23:52All right!
00:23:53I wanted to do it all,
00:23:55and she wanted me to do it all.
00:23:56She knew that I could do it.
00:23:58Third time to sing it, right?
00:24:01A little witch, yeah?
00:24:03Mm-hmm.
00:24:05You have to live it.
00:24:07You gotta live the songs on stage.
00:24:12Y'all stop it, y'all stop it.
00:24:13Okay.
00:24:15And I knew it made my parents proud
00:24:17to see me, like,
00:24:18singing the new songs that I wrote
00:24:19and things like that,
00:24:20so of course it made me want to do it more,
00:24:22because I wanted them to be proud.
00:24:24And I still catch myself doing that now.
00:24:27Like, when something great happens or whatever,
00:24:29like, I want to call them and tell them,
00:24:32hey, like, because I want them to be proud,
00:24:37which can be a rough thing at times,
00:24:38too, you know?
00:24:40It looked good.
00:24:42Pulling out the driveway,
00:24:43hit up with a free...
00:24:44I can't do it!
00:24:46That's the reason why I think
00:24:47now's the time for you to take boys' lessons.
00:24:50Right now, I can just...
00:24:51I just know it's time.
00:24:53My mama took me,
00:24:54and my daddy figured out how to get us there.
00:24:55It was a team effort,
00:24:56and my sister was just mad as hell
00:24:58that she even had to go on for the ride.
00:25:08All right, do y'all have to help me rock out
00:25:09to Best of All Worlds? Here we go.
00:25:12I toured as Hannah Montana,
00:25:14and I did three or four birthday parties a weekend.
00:25:17Well, a lot of the times,
00:25:18I would open the show as Laney Wilson,
00:25:21and then I would run behind a tree or whatever it was
00:25:24and put on my Hannah Montana get-up.
00:25:26So I did that from 8th grade to 12th grade.
00:25:28I was driving around
00:25:29when I didn't even have a license to do that.
00:25:32Several times a week,
00:25:33I was going and playing at random things,
00:25:35whether it was the Walmart grand opening
00:25:38or the grand opening of the convenience store down the road,
00:25:41or going to the nursing home
00:25:42and singing for my mama and her buddies,
00:25:44and any place that would let me perform,
00:25:47I would go do it.
00:25:48A lot of my friends every weekend
00:25:50were going down to LSU to watch the ball games,
00:25:53and I was always busy playing music,
00:25:55and for me, that was, like, an easy choice.
00:25:58It wasn't about, like,
00:26:00the little bit of money that I was making.
00:26:01It was just about because I loved it.
00:26:04My favorite part of the night?
00:26:08Y'all know what time it is.
00:26:12Do you want to be cattle girl of the night?
00:26:14Come on! Get up here!
00:26:18What's your name?
00:26:19Mom!
00:26:20Do you want to be cattle girl of the night?
00:26:23It's real easy.
00:26:25All you got to do is repeat after me, okay?
00:26:27Say, I am beautiful.
00:26:29I am beautiful.
00:26:31I am smart.
00:26:33I am smart.
00:26:34I can do anything.
00:26:35I can do anything.
00:26:36And I'm cow girl of the night.
00:26:39And I'm cow girl of the night.
00:26:44I want in Saul who's here.
00:26:44I think it's about important
00:26:45to remind these little girls of their self-worth.
00:26:51It's for that kid on that stage.
00:26:53It's also for the kids in the back row.
00:26:56I want them to see that.
00:26:57I want them to see how brave that little girl is on stage.
00:27:01I think I'm about repeating these things out loud.
00:27:02think words are powerful and i think what you say you start believing that's why it's so important
00:27:07to try your best not to speak negatively to yourself i've done it it ain't fun and so
00:27:14it's like i'm teaching them but every single night i'm getting to teach myself too
00:28:01it's
00:28:02Walking through the street, telling you, we'll be there, letting all of you
00:28:07This is a high-riding life to the sun
00:28:10This is a high-riding life to the sun
00:28:31You know, Tim McGraw grew up right down the road from me.
00:28:33No way.
00:28:34I wrote him a letter when I was in high school, too.
00:28:40Let me see if I can find it.
00:28:42Dear Mr. Tim McGraw, she's always had my efforts.
00:28:48My name is Lainey Wilson from Franklin Parish, Baskin, Louisiana.
00:28:53I am 18 years old and have just entered my first semester at Louisiana Delta Community College of Monroe
00:28:59to pursue a nursing degree.
00:29:01I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old.
00:29:04When you listen to my CD, I want you to know that this is a sample of what I write.
00:29:10I have many others and they are just as good.
00:29:12Oh, humble.
00:29:14Please consider meeting with me and my family.
00:29:18Singing, writing, and performing are the most important things in my life.
00:29:21All I need is the opportunity and I can do the rest.
00:29:25Sincerely, Lainey Wilson.
00:29:37So, this little booklet, I'm embarrassed.
00:29:41This little booklet I made when I was, like, 15 years old.
00:29:46Somebody told me they were like, if you go to Nashville, you need to have proof that you've, like, done
00:29:50stuff, you know.
00:29:51And so, I put this little portfolio together.
00:29:53I did it in, like, table of contents.
00:29:55I got my shows, community service, Nashville Bound, and a Hannah Montana impersonator.
00:30:012008 Honky Tonk Talent Search winner.
00:30:03Awful Masai.
00:30:05Here's a good picture of me and Jerry right here.
00:30:08There was this guy named Jerry Cupid from Baskin.
00:30:11He had this dream to move to Nashville and be a songwriter-producer.
00:30:15My grandfather gave him some money to move to Nashville and get started in the late 70s.
00:30:21Every single time he would come back to Baskin, he would stop by my house.
00:30:24And even at nine years old, he was, like, listening to the songs that I was writing.
00:30:29And he'd be like, okay, if you're writing about that blue truck, well, how fast does that truck go?
00:30:34What does that truck make you feel like?
00:30:35He would ask me questions that would get my wheels turning.
00:30:40You can look, but you can't touch.
00:30:42If you do, I'll kick your butt.
00:30:44You know, I always told him, I was like, I'm going to move to Nashville.
00:30:48And he's like, okay, well, you just let me know when you're ready, and I will help you any way
00:30:51that I can.
00:30:52And so 2011 rolled around.
00:30:55I was in college, and I decided I'm going to move up there.
00:31:01And Jerry let me park my Flagstaff bumper pull camper trailer in his studio parking lot
00:31:07and hook up to the side of his studio for free.
00:31:10I used to drive up right here, and I'd park at an angle.
00:31:15And then I started getting lazy, and I started parking in grass.
00:31:18And Jerry got mad.
00:31:19It was like, quit parking in my grass.
00:31:21I had to be halfway insane to be in the predicament that I was in, and to think that this
00:31:27could be my reality.
00:31:29I would wake up, and most days, when he was feeling good, go in here and write songs,
00:31:35and then go and get me a bag of chips and a Slim Jim, go to bed and do it
00:31:42all over again.
00:31:45Jerry taught me how to write a song.
00:31:47We wrote 300-plus songs together.
00:31:50He got me up and running like a well-oiled songwriting machine.
00:31:55Like, I knew how to write a song after my time with him.
00:31:58This is where I'd do my vocals in here when we were cutting a record.
00:32:02This is where some of my first music was made.
00:32:05Sounds good in here.
00:32:06Say?
00:32:07Sounds good.
00:32:08What?
00:32:09Come on in.
00:32:11He had a bone disease that ended up turning into cancer.
00:32:16It was about year two of me living in my camper next to his studio that we realized, like, oh,
00:32:22no, this is not good.
00:32:23But that's when I knew that he's probably, you know, not going to make it much longer.
00:32:28And he told me, he said, I want you to, I want you to keep going.
00:32:34And then, uh, he passed away.
00:32:42And I just felt lost and lonely and scared.
00:32:46And it was a very, honestly, like a dark season of my life.
00:32:51I didn't know which way to go.
00:32:54I didn't know who to turn to.
00:32:56Um, but I still knew that this was my calling.
00:32:59And I knew that I wasn't going to pack it up and go home.
00:33:02I knew that I needed to stick it out.
00:33:04And I honestly kind of felt like I owed it to myself, but I also owed it to him.
00:33:08This is where I got people to write, like, references.
00:33:12So Jerry wrote, Lainey is the complete package.
00:33:16She sings, writes, and will be a video superstar.
00:33:20Her talent will demand a place in the ranks of the major country music platform.
00:33:27That's pretty cool.
00:33:30He spoke it.
00:33:32Like, when you were making me around and you were knocking on doors,
00:33:34did you ever say, here's my CD and here's my portfolio?
00:33:37Yeah, I used to go, I printed up a bunch of these and just put them in people's mailboxes.
00:33:43I, like, burned a bunch of CDs and I'd walk up and down the music room
00:33:48and just see, like, who would, I mean, most people wouldn't answer their door.
00:33:51I had a few people saying the door in my face, but then I'd go on to the next one.
00:33:57I definitely did have moments where I was thinking to myself, what in the world am I doing?
00:34:03Like, this is a lot harder than I ever thought it was going to be.
00:34:05Because, honestly, it kind of felt like it was just getting harder and harder and harder and harder.
00:34:10But it's really nice to find people who wanted it like I did.
00:34:15Oh, that was fun.
00:34:19We're all coming from some semblance of the same experience.
00:34:23Like, I worked really hard in the gutter in a punk band
00:34:25the same way the Nolans worked really hard in a gutter in their rock band.
00:34:30The same way Sav worked really hard in the gutter in her handy band.
00:34:33We've all been through that stuff and we all know how much we need the support
00:34:37of the people immediately around us to get through that.
00:34:41There he is.
00:34:46We have played flatbed trailers.
00:34:49We've played this white trash bash on the river in Peoria, Illinois.
00:34:54We have played in the back of trucks.
00:35:00I played on top of an air conditioning unit at Daddy's Dogs, and that was only in 2020.
00:35:05I don't know if I'm more excited about playing a show in real life person right now or the dang
00:35:09hot dogs.
00:35:10My payment was, I got a gold card for free hot dogs the rest of my entire life,
00:35:16and that was one of the biggest flexes I will ever have.
00:35:19Like, this is the shit that every DIY musician is going to relate to.
00:35:28We would be going to do a three-hour cover show,
00:35:31and there's a mechanical bull in the back of the room that's more interesting than what's happening on stage.
00:35:35Or if it's a bad night, there's 40 people there, and they're all drunk, huddling around the bar.
00:35:38Nobody's listening.
00:35:40You know, I saw a lot of people come into this town and go out of this town.
00:35:44A lot of people are like, oh, man, I've got to go on and find something else.
00:35:49And I can absolutely understand why.
00:35:52But I had already dedicated my whole life to it.
00:35:55Stand up for my God.
00:35:58So, no, no.
00:35:59Lanny was sitting down every day, all day, talking with radio people,
00:36:03and they switched to a new single, which was Things of Man or No.
00:36:06And yeah, I know a boy
00:36:08Who gave up and got it wrong
00:36:11If you really love a woman, you don't let her go
00:36:18I know a woman's a man on the moon
00:36:24The song went number one, and we had a little celebration in the green room.
00:36:28Happy number one to you!
00:36:33Yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go.
00:36:35Cute.
00:36:37That's really fucking cute.
00:36:38I asked Lanny that night,
00:36:41You got a number one.
00:36:42Like, what do we do next?
00:36:44Like, what's your next goal?
00:36:45What do you want?
00:36:46She was like, I want three more in a year.
00:36:49And I was like, in my mind, just going like,
00:36:51That's completely insane.
00:36:53Like, what are you talking about?
00:36:54And then it happened.
00:36:59So many things that I never thought would happen
00:37:02for me or for her or for whatever.
00:37:04She just speaks into existence, it seems.
00:37:06And I know that that obviously goes hand in hand
00:37:09with how hard she works.
00:37:11Whatever thing you want to believe
00:37:13makes the universe move differently around certain people,
00:37:16she's one of those people.
00:37:21So, like, this is our tracker with everything.
00:37:25All of our shows, all of our, like, shoots and announces
00:37:28and brands, PR, styling and wardrobe.
00:37:33We've got photo shoots.
00:37:35It gives me heart palpitations.
00:37:37No, it shouldn't.
00:37:38You should breathe in.
00:37:40Because we have all this in one place.
00:37:42I get anxious when I see how much there is to be done.
00:37:46That's what makes me anxious.
00:37:47Like, when I look at my calendar,
00:37:49but, like,
00:37:52I'm a lot better than I used to be.
00:37:55I would look, like, eight months ahead
00:37:57and then go,
00:37:58like, how am I going to get to eight months, you know?
00:38:02I have feared overexposure.
00:38:05I think it's because I'm tired of myself kind of thing.
00:38:08You know what I'm saying?
00:38:09I feel like I have to do so many things
00:38:11where I'm talking about me, me, me, me, me,
00:38:13that I'm like,
00:38:13I can't imagine how some people feel
00:38:15if they're just scrolling and they just say,
00:38:17me, me, me, me, me.
00:38:18Like, I get nervous about that feeling.
00:38:20I get nervous about,
00:38:21is anybody going to still care in 10 years?
00:38:23They should,
00:38:24but I more get fearful about, like,
00:38:26people's just, like, behavior
00:38:28and sort of vision spans.
00:38:30I'm always, like, thinking about, like, what's next?
00:38:34Which is probably why I struggle
00:38:35with a little bit of anxiety.
00:38:37Because, what, they say depression is fast
00:38:39and anxiety is the future?
00:38:42So about how long of a thing is it?
00:38:44Fifteen minutes.
00:38:45Fifteen.
00:38:45It's like that Spotify album playback.
00:38:48Got it.
00:38:48Where I just kind of talk in between.
00:38:49Yeah.
00:38:51So they cannot see me.
00:38:53Correct.
00:38:54Thank God.
00:38:55Yeah.
00:38:58Now you're in the waiting room,
00:38:59like everybody else.
00:39:00They hear that when they enter.
00:39:03All right, let me figure out how to speak.
00:39:05What's going on, y'all?
00:39:07It's Laney Wilson.
00:39:08I'm so glad y'all are hanging out with us.
00:39:11Y'all ready to listen to some songs together?
00:39:13Now you're going to hear
00:39:15Hang Tight Honey
00:39:16that I got to play on Yellowstone last night.
00:39:18Y'all know what this one's about.
00:39:19Crank it up.
00:39:23That's great.
00:39:28Great.
00:39:30Great.
00:39:32It's something to do with my frequency.
00:39:34Well, they'll be so frequent.
00:39:37I'm like, ooh, ooh.
00:39:40There's so much work that has to be put in
00:39:43to collect the little pennies here and there
00:39:45that it's almost like you can't even collect all your money
00:39:48if you don't have enough money to pay for the admin.
00:39:50Songwriters cannot make a living.
00:39:52What is it like for every stream?
00:39:54Let's see what it's at now.
00:39:55It used to be like .0009,
00:40:01like almost a tenth of a penny.
00:40:06Okay, .003 to .008 per stream.
00:40:09But that's the whole songwriter piece.
00:40:12Then if you have multiple writers and multiple publishers.
00:40:15Split.
00:40:16You're not going to be able to, like, even survive.
00:40:19It's like you've got to kind of be everywhere.
00:40:22Touring's the main bulk of it,
00:40:24but, like, brand partnerships.
00:40:26We had a brand shoot for American Greetings.
00:40:29Mark it.
00:40:30And we did those little, like, smash-ups
00:40:32where the singer says your names.
00:40:34She sang over 1,000 names.
00:40:36Listen.
00:40:36So, Alexis, celebrate.
00:40:39So, Alexis, you better get ready to party.
00:40:43Listen.
00:40:44I sang 1,000 names.
00:40:45How long was I singing?
00:40:46For 14 hours?
00:40:47So, Alice, you better get ready to party.
00:40:51Listen.
00:40:52So, Brian, you better get ready.
00:40:55So, Shannon, you better get ready.
00:40:58So, Shaq, so Shaquille, so Zoe,
00:41:01you better get ready to party.
00:41:04That is it.
00:41:06Woo!
00:41:06Yeah!
00:41:07By the time that was over,
00:41:09I felt like my brain was broad-eyed and late to decide.
00:41:12The celebrity-ism of it is just, like,
00:41:15our version of marketing for it.
00:41:17It's always about selling it,
00:41:18but, like, all the stuff that makes a show,
00:41:21like, we carry that.
00:41:22It's a circus.
00:41:23And so you pay for it every day
00:41:25and the trucks that they ride in
00:41:26and even the cases that the equipment rides in.
00:41:29Just everything goes into a box,
00:41:30into a bigger box, into a bigger box.
00:41:32We're paying for lots of boxes.
00:41:35Yeah.
00:41:36We have lots of people to feed.
00:41:38Yes.
00:41:39Lots of people.
00:41:40But all of this, like, lets her kind of do,
00:41:44have freedom to do what she wants on the music side.
00:41:48So that's nice.
00:41:50I wrote this song years ago.
00:41:55Probably, like, three years ago or more.
00:41:58And then Charlie Warshaw,
00:42:00who's played on some of my records,
00:42:03that I'm a big old fan of,
00:42:07recorded it.
00:42:08So I'm just gonna go sing harmony.
00:42:32I like that.
00:42:33That was awesome.
00:42:33I like that.
00:42:36Well, I think they like the high one.
00:42:39I just want to make sure we have one we like.
00:42:42Oh, yeah.
00:42:43Oh, let's do that.
00:42:43Yeah, yeah.
00:42:44100%.
00:42:44Here we go.
00:42:45Well, somebody let's go.
00:42:48Somebody holds on.
00:42:50You fall out of love.
00:42:53Hearts break right in tune.
00:42:56You think they break even.
00:43:15That was awesome, though.
00:43:16I love how you did a little extra piece of gasp there.
00:43:21Yeah.
00:43:22Just because I was unsure where to go.
00:43:23It was nice, though.
00:43:24And then I changed my mind.
00:43:25I was like, come back down.
00:43:26It's really good, though.
00:43:27I would just do you on that.
00:43:28I was telling him it's very, like, predictable
00:43:31to cut the background vocals for the breakdown.
00:43:33But, like, it's my two favorite voices
00:43:36in country-western music.
00:43:37Why the fuck would we do that?
00:43:38Right?
00:43:38Except for Chris Stapleton.
00:43:40Have y'all heard him?
00:43:41Who?
00:43:41Chris Stapleton.
00:43:42Sounds familiar.
00:43:43He can sing the phone book,
00:43:44and it would be great.
00:43:47Honestly, a lot of the collaborations
00:43:49that I have done have come from, like,
00:43:51real friendships with people.
00:43:52You know, artists like Post.
00:43:54I love these.
00:43:56Where'd you find them?
00:43:57Internet.
00:43:58I like them.
00:43:59You hearing yourself okay?
00:44:00Yep, I hear myself.
00:44:01Let me hear you.
00:44:04Let me get just a little bit more Post.
00:44:07There we go.
00:44:08Baby, don't waste your time on me.
00:44:12Yeah.
00:44:13I'm so damaged.
00:44:14I don't know why you're there.
00:44:16Jelly Roll, he had put the song Save Me Out,
00:44:19and he asked me if I wanted to be a part of it.
00:44:21I just thought it would be cool
00:44:22to kind of, like, give the woman's perspective,
00:44:25point of view with that song.
00:44:28Hey, it's Reba.
00:44:29Miranda.
00:44:29And Laney.
00:44:30Our new song Trailblazer is out right now.
00:44:33Tap the link below to listen.
00:44:34Hey, it's Reba.
00:44:36Miranda.
00:44:38All the collaborations that we've done
00:44:41have to feel, like, organic.
00:44:46Y'all ready?
00:44:47Roots and Dunn are here,
00:44:49and we're getting to do this song together.
00:44:51My heroes come out here and be a guest at my show.
00:44:54It means a lot to me.
00:44:59It's kind of like a weird sense of peace about it
00:45:02that I get to call these people who I admire
00:45:05and the folks that have inspired me,
00:45:08like, I get to call them friends now.
00:45:09I'm an ambassad class.
00:45:12I'm a fool, a fool, a fool.
00:45:14You're looking for honey.
00:45:16I, ooh, ooh.
00:45:18Oh, play something contrary.
00:45:20Yeah.
00:45:21It's kind of hard for me to wrap my head around,
00:45:23but I also know, like, I'm right where I'm supposed to be.
00:45:32We're going to eat a little bit of supper,
00:45:33and I'll call you right back.
00:45:35You got anything you want to say?
00:45:37You got anything you want to share?
00:45:39I'm good.
00:45:41You ain't got nothing to say about me.
00:45:48It's bad time for me.
00:45:49Okay, bye.
00:45:51Everybody gets camera shy.
00:45:53He does.
00:45:54He's like, oh, you're going to put me on the spot,
00:45:55and then I can't talk?
00:45:56I forgot to have a talk.
00:45:57He is kind of a hard shell to crack at first.
00:46:00Yeah.
00:46:00He has a wall up for some reason.
00:46:02It's like, he don't trust easy.
00:46:04Yeah.
00:46:04I don't know where that comes from.
00:46:06I don't know, but I'm glad he has that.
00:46:10You want my sandwich?
00:46:19Hey, baby.
00:46:20What's going on?
00:46:22Mwah.
00:46:23Hey, Willie.
00:46:23Hippie!
00:46:25I got salmon, and I got steaks.
00:46:27So we could do either.
00:46:30I'll do it for whatever.
00:46:31I got baked potatoes.
00:46:32You ain't cookies for after?
00:46:38I think one of the things that makes our relationship so special is both of us worked really hard
00:46:45at young ages to reach this goal that really kind of seems impossible.
00:46:51I mean, he dedicated his life to football.
00:46:53He knows what it's like to work something from the ground up.
00:46:58And it's crazy, because when we met, you know, he was coming out of football,
00:47:02and I was starting to kind of ramp up into music.
00:47:04We were able to, like, ebb and flow and understand with these careers.
00:47:08I mean, you have ups and you have downs, and it's about just, like, riding that wave out.
00:47:14Who's been ducking solid for a month now?
00:47:17No, are they?
00:47:18Yes, you have.
00:47:19I've been home.
00:47:21You've been home probably three days in the past month.
00:47:24No, we...
00:47:25It's only the 13th.
00:47:27What about Christmas and the holidays?
00:47:28You started going out there around that time.
00:47:31About a week or so before Christmas, you were out there.
00:47:33Yeah, I was out there for a few days.
00:47:38It's time for it to be over.
00:47:40That's what I say about August when you've been on the road with music.
00:47:45Yep.
00:47:47It definitely gets hard, but, again, it's a choice, and we choose each other every single time.
00:47:53I don't think that I would be able to navigate this life and a love life and everything with anybody
00:48:03else.
00:48:04Poke holes in it?
00:48:05Yes!
00:48:06Who taught you that?
00:48:07This ain't my first time baking a potato.
00:48:09Lord.
00:48:10We have rough patches, but this is the healthiest relationship that I have ever been in.
00:48:18He showed me what, like, a real relationship is supposed to be, unconditional love, and what real love is.
00:48:24It would be very difficult if I was, like, starting over right now and trying to find my person that,
00:48:32like, genuinely loved Lainey and not Lainey Wilson.
00:48:58I stockpiled my TikTok drafts this morning.
00:49:02Look at this stupid shit.
00:49:04I'm not proud of it, I'll tell you that.
00:49:07Oh, gosh.
00:49:08Who am I?
00:49:08What have I done?
00:49:10I don't know.
00:49:11Lainey, Lainey, Lainey, Lainey.
00:49:18Lainey, Lainey.
00:49:18They should have both of that one.
00:49:20I kind of learned this.
00:49:22I thought I was going to name you Wilson for a moment.
00:49:25I am.
00:49:26Lainey Wilson.
00:49:27Yes.
00:49:27Very nice to meet you, Lainey.
00:49:29Nice to meet y'all.
00:49:30How you doing, man?
00:49:30Stuart from behind.
00:49:32Lainey.
00:49:32Kim Kardashian got nothing on you there.
00:49:34Oh, come on now.
00:49:37Okay.
00:49:40I want to bring up my friend, Mr. Zach Talk.
00:49:43Get on up here, brother.
00:49:45Tell him what we got in common.
00:49:46And her big booties.
00:49:47Our big booties.
00:49:49Oh!
00:50:02What year did my butt go viral?
00:50:04That was 2022.
00:50:06I can't even scroll on TikTok on my For You page without seeing my fat butt on everything.
00:50:13I could get up on a little while.
00:50:15Hey, wow, wow.
00:50:16You can do it.
00:50:17Just make y'all get right.
00:50:18You can do it.
00:50:19Me on fire.
00:50:20Finger rings.
00:50:21Oh!
00:50:22She was like, ha, ha, this is funny.
00:50:23And then I was like, well, is this funny?
00:50:25And yes, this is funny.
00:50:27Let me make this meme of you on a dump truck in front of you on a driver's license.
00:50:31But we win with it.
00:50:32Whatever brings the people in.
00:50:33But I'm just letting y'all know, go check out my record, Bell Bottom Country.
00:50:37Happy to have you either way.
00:50:40What happened to that backdoor turd cutter you had?
00:50:43Uncle Timmy, why are you worried about my turd cutter?
00:50:46Worry about your own.
00:50:47It was the most epic.
00:50:49She thought it was epic.
00:50:50Yeah, I mean, whatever.
00:50:51It had nothing to do with my music.
00:50:52But the music could always back it up.
00:50:54Like, people would, like, make a comment about how she looked or whatever was going viral.
00:50:58And then they'd be like, and the music's actually really good.
00:51:01I can't keep trying to keep up with Jones.
00:51:04I can't keep trying to keep up with Jones.
00:51:06I can't keep trying to keep up with Jones.
00:51:09I can't keep trying to keep up with Jones.
00:51:12I can't believe that that was a moment that kind of steered people towards my music.
00:51:15But I also was like, Lord, it's got to play.
00:51:19He must have gave me that dump for a reason.
00:51:41We're going to go up to the rooftop level in about 8.30.
00:51:45I'm just going to start kind of forming a line.
00:51:46But take your time, because we're going to make sure that we get through everybody.
00:51:50So eat, drink up, and enjoy yourself.
00:51:53I can try to feel at home here.
00:51:55So thank you so much.
00:52:02Last year, we did a 14-hour meet-and-greet at the bar, and I met 1,111 people that
00:52:09day.
00:52:12And we went through the entire line.
00:52:16I feel like almost every single person that came through the line that day, like, had something
00:52:21to say that meant something.
00:52:23Because my fans really, like, they lay it on me.
00:52:26The good, the bad, and the ugly, and I love it.
00:52:28And one fan, you know, might say that, you know, they want to be a singer, too, and they
00:52:34learned how to play the song on a guitar.
00:52:35And the next fan might come through and say, like, I was thinking about taking my own life.
00:52:42And your song came on and stopped me.
00:52:45So it, at times, can be a little bit of, like, a mental, just, like, a lot to take in.
00:52:51It's important for me to wrap my arms around them and let them know that there's more to life.
00:53:03Sometimes people just want to be heard and seen.
00:53:07But it's not mine to carry.
00:53:08Because I had gotten into a bad habit of just letting it stack up and stack up and stack up,
00:53:14and then I can't do the job that I need to do.
00:53:18I absolutely do, like, soak up people's energy.
00:53:20I can't help it.
00:53:22I can't help it.
00:53:23But those are the things that put a lot into perspective for me.
00:53:26And I think about them when I'm writing music.
00:53:31When are we going to cut this next record?
00:53:33Madeline's just going to have a heart attack when I call her today.
00:53:36And tell her that you want to make the next record?
00:53:38She already knows I do.
00:53:40She's like, you know how much press and everything goes in behind it?
00:53:43And I said, I'm telling you, but I really think there's something so special about these songs
00:53:47that it's not going to take as much press.
00:53:49I think it's just going to be like, these are some things that I wrote.
00:53:54Let's do a few interviews.
00:53:56Carry on.
00:53:57I feel that strong about it.
00:53:59And maybe I'm naive or just a dumbass.
00:54:02The songs that I'm writing right now are about the simple part of my life.
00:54:08Things that make me feel like the sister and daughter and friend and all of that.
00:54:14You know, I can't be writing music about a tour bus all the time.
00:54:17I can't be writing about things like the flashy part of my life.
00:54:23And to tell you the truth, I don't want to.
00:54:28Catfish shackled beer on the water.
00:54:31Catfish shack.
00:54:32Watching ducks on the water.
00:54:34Duck, you're going to like this one.
00:54:37Catfish shack feeding ducks on the water.
00:54:40Alabama son and a Louie and a daughter.
00:54:42Summer he waved on, gave much hotter than a burn in that first kiss.
00:54:47What's more?
00:54:48I do like hinting around to more of a wedding.
00:54:51I know we're saying at the altar, but like since we're going with the barred and blue, like, I'll as
00:54:56well go for it, right?
00:54:57Yeah, yeah.
00:54:57Fair damn day's a tough one to find.
00:55:00I won't top it till we're tying that night at the altar.
00:55:03Doing that champagne harder to swallow.
00:55:06Hang on my honeymoon.
00:55:08Talk on the ticker.
00:55:10I don't want to change.
00:55:1124 more of you loving on me.
00:55:14I skip Christmas and the 4th of July, babe.
00:55:17Cross off the rest of the calendar I take.
00:55:20Yesterday, all day, every day, all of you for the rest of my life.
00:55:26Wandered on downtown to Silverado's.
00:55:29Crowd was line dancing and we were clicking bottles.
00:55:31Damn, it kind of felt like we done and hit the light of free.
00:55:35Fear from 5 to 10.
00:55:37Got me wishing I could live.
00:55:40Yesterday, all day, every day, stuck in a loop like Moxie Tone.
00:55:46And we'll talk on the ticker.
00:55:47I don't want to change.
00:55:4824 more of you loving on me.
00:55:51I skip Christmas and the 4th of July, babe.
00:55:54Cross off the rest of the calendar I take.
00:55:57Yesterday, all day, every day, all of you for the rest of my life.
00:56:04I think I'm going to ask her here in Nashville.
00:56:07I don't know exactly where.
00:56:08I got a few options.
00:56:09So I'm not really nervous yet.
00:56:10I'm excited.
00:56:11But maybe the day of I might be really nervous.
00:56:15I might be sweating and stuff.
00:56:16She may be like, what's wrong with you?
00:56:19Yesterday, all day, every day, all of you for the rest of my life.
00:56:24Yesterday, all day, every day, all of you for the rest of my life.
00:56:33This is it.
00:56:35You ready?
00:56:38Make sure it looks good.
00:56:40All right.
00:56:41I hope this does it.
00:56:49Oh, here she is.
00:56:50Let's see what she does.
00:56:51Hello?
00:56:53Hi.
00:56:54What are you doing?
00:56:57Getting home.
00:56:58Oh, shit.
00:56:59I'm running people off the road.
00:57:01Shit.
00:57:01I can't see.
00:57:05Lord.
00:57:07I think duck is incredible.
00:57:08And I think the world could use some more duck.
00:57:12Some more ducklings.
00:57:15I feel like I will have a family at some point in time.
00:57:18And, you know, I've been preparing for that.
00:57:21Just like people made me feel like when I first got to Nashville,
00:57:25that if I didn't do it in my early 20s,
00:57:28that I needed to go on and hang it up.
00:57:30That's kind of how society can make you feel with having kids.
00:57:35And I have absolutely felt that pressure.
00:57:38But thank goodness for egg retrieval.
00:57:41So I will be able to have that option.
00:57:44It's a process.
00:57:46I mean, it is hormonally insane.
00:57:48My heart goes out to all the women that have done it,
00:57:52that are planning to do it, that are still doing it.
00:57:55It was something I had been wanting to do for a few years, just in case.
00:57:59Because it is a dream of fun to be a mama.
00:58:08Let's have some fun.
00:58:10I like the way the pants move.
00:58:13I prefer the other look.
00:58:15Oh, it's hot.
00:58:15It's too many good lumps.
00:58:17Good problem to have, though.
00:58:18So that is a good problem to have.
00:58:24Should I wear a white shirt?
00:58:25I wear this?
00:58:26Let's see.
00:58:27This is one of your hands.
00:58:29What?
00:58:30Polk it around like a diamond pull.
00:58:31Well, I've got to run to keep from hiding.
00:58:36And I'm bound to keep on riding.
00:58:41And I've got one more silver dollar.
00:58:46But I'm not going to let them get low.
00:58:50Not going to let them cut you off.
00:58:52And I'm riding.
00:58:54You're looking like sunshines coming out your ass.
00:58:58Very cool.
00:58:59Close your legs.
00:59:01And I don't own the clothes I'm wearing.
00:59:06And on the road goes on forever.
00:59:11Very cool.
00:59:12But I got one more silver dollar.
00:59:16Can we get some snacks in here?
00:59:18Or are they going to have snacks at the rolls?
00:59:20Oh, it's a good question.
00:59:22It honestly never even crossed my mind that I would get nominated for a Grammy in general.
00:59:27And the Grammy goes to Lainey Wilson.
00:59:30When we won Country Album of the Year with Bell Bottom Country, it felt great.
00:59:35It felt like, man, okay, now I'm being acknowledged by a wide variety of peers.
00:59:40Woo, um, we're not going to Grammy tomorrow.
00:59:45Yeah, and?
00:59:48I mean, I actually really don't know, but I, it's...
00:59:50We're not gonna.
00:59:52I'm just trying to think, like, if the Lord parts the sea tomorrow...
00:59:58Because he's done that a few times.
01:00:02Just trying to figure out, like, if we're in that position, what am I going to share that I've never
01:00:07shared?
01:00:11I try not to put too much value in winning awards.
01:00:15You know, I accept it with a grateful and open heart and open mind.
01:00:20But what you have today might not exist tomorrow.
01:00:23And so it's, it's got to be a healthy relationship I have with these awards.
01:00:27Because they can easily be taken away.
01:00:39Thank you very much.
01:00:58And the Grammy goes to Cowboy Carter.
01:01:14The night's over.
01:01:16Oh, yeah, take it off the lashes, too.
01:01:18I didn't win, but it was time for us to lose something.
01:01:22I walked over to Beyoncé.
01:01:25She was so kind.
01:01:26We had a lot of great things to say to each other.
01:01:29And you could tell that we both had a respect for each other.
01:01:32It was like, I see you and you see me kind of thing.
01:01:35And she said, it means a lot that you walked over here and did that.
01:01:39I'm not one of the artists that's like, hey, you got to stay over there on your side.
01:01:42You know, like, that's not the way that I was raised.
01:01:45And also when I think of country music, it's always been, welcome everybody with open arms.
01:01:53I need to just get through one more week.
01:01:55I'm just going to call you.
01:01:56I love you.
01:01:58I love you.
01:02:17What else did we need to do?
01:02:19Uh, Daniel said something about you signing stuff.
01:02:24We sign it there.
01:02:26Vindy?
01:02:30Uh, let me ask Daniel.
01:02:32Daniel, I'll tell you what.
01:02:33I am sick as I don't.
01:02:35You ought to try to, you ought to try to take a nap, too, like a 30-minute nap.
01:02:40I mean, you didn't get much sleep.
01:02:42You sick all night.
01:02:44I thought you would admit that may get you through the night.
01:02:51Of course, I'm going to have to stop their minds.
01:02:53It's all right.
01:02:55They'll only know you're sick once they watch the documentary.
01:03:07That's cool.
01:03:09What's up, y'all?
01:03:09How y'all doing?
01:03:10You doing all right, ma'am?
01:03:11Yeah.
01:03:12Sure.
01:03:12Yeah.
01:03:24We're going to come back.
01:03:28She don't look happy.
01:03:31Hey, Lainey.
01:03:34Can we get out of my face?
01:03:37We just had a wardrobe malfunction.
01:03:39What happened?
01:03:40What happened?
01:03:41I busted out on my britches.
01:03:44As soon as you know it's going to be a good night.
01:03:46These are not the pants I'm supposed to wear.
01:03:48These are the pants I've been wearing all day.
01:03:50You want to borrow mine?
01:03:56Oh, here.
01:03:57It's our last.
01:03:57It's our last.
01:03:59It's our last date.
01:04:02Enjoyed it.
01:04:03It was great.
01:04:04It was good getting to know you.
01:04:07See you on the other side.
01:04:08All right, brother.
01:04:10She said that we don't.
01:04:11I told you, don't call him brother.
01:04:27I think I am a introverted extrovert.
01:04:32Because at the end of the day, when I need to, like, collect myself and get some more energy
01:04:39together, I need to be by myself.
01:04:43I love people.
01:04:45But in order for me to, like, fill my cup back up, I need to, like, lock it down for
01:04:50a minute.
01:04:59I always love making people laugh.
01:05:01There's times when, like, I could be feeling bad about myself.
01:05:05And I feel like, at least if I'm, like, picking on myself, it's not going to hurt my feelings
01:05:10if other people are.
01:05:11You know, I'm like, well, let me get to it first.
01:05:14There was a time of my life when I definitely didn't feel as funny.
01:05:20And it was just a few years ago.
01:05:24I honestly didn't know if I was ever going to be funny again.
01:05:33When did I start feeling like myself again?
01:05:40A couple years ago, it was wild.
01:05:44Everything I'd ever dreamed about kind of happened all at once.
01:05:50You know, when opportunities come at you and you didn't have any for so long, you want
01:05:54to just take them all.
01:05:55And I guess a little bit of that was probably fear that they weren't always going to be there.
01:05:59I think it went good.
01:06:00I don't really know.
01:06:02About to do something else.
01:06:05And I think, too, I was probably finding myself worse in what I was doing.
01:06:09The performer, the artist, the songwriter, the girl who's going and shaking everybody's
01:06:14hands and kissing everybody's babies instead of who I truly am.
01:06:21Are you feeling a little sick today?
01:06:22I've never been to you.
01:06:24I've got two IVs in the past 24 hours.
01:06:28I just feel tired.
01:06:29I feel like if I keep hammering it, I'm just going to put myself in my life.
01:06:33Did you eat or won't eat?
01:06:34My mouth has to cry.
01:06:36Woo!
01:06:37You good, baby?
01:06:37Yep.
01:06:38So overstimulated.
01:06:39I'm just going to sit here, like, and catch my breath.
01:06:42I'm turning my phone off.
01:06:44I'm just about peopled out right now.
01:06:46I think I've not been feeling myself for a couple of years.
01:06:48I had reached a point where I was just like, I don't know if I'll ever be the same.
01:06:53I was extremely anxious, and the anxiousness caused depression.
01:06:57And it's just like the depression caused more anxiousness because I was like, why in the
01:07:02world am I depressed during this time of my life?
01:07:04This is everything I've ever wanted.
01:07:05I've always been so tired, but, like, I'm good.
01:07:08I had several, several breakdowns, I guess you could say.
01:07:14I was just losing it.
01:07:15I was like, like, I don't know if I can, like, go any further.
01:07:20I remember you calling me crying in the airport, and...
01:07:23St. Louis Airport, I remember where I was, pushed up against that glass wall.
01:07:27I thought I was not going to come back from that either.
01:07:30Yeah, she said, I can't stop crying.
01:07:32I think I'm losing my mind.
01:07:34She was a solid panic attack for, like, multiple days.
01:07:39And I had played shows and everything while I was having the panic attack.
01:07:42It was terrifying.
01:07:45It was a chemical imbalance happening.
01:07:47I was, like, spiraling out of control.
01:07:50And then it's like the fear of thinking that you're always going to be stuck in that mindset
01:07:55causes more anxiety, and then causes, it's just like a vicious cycle.
01:07:59I think it is important for me at times to show people that, like, I don't have my shit
01:08:04altogether.
01:08:05First of all, I was putting so much pressure on myself to get it right, to be right, to
01:08:10be perfect, show up, sing the damn song, look good doing it, all of these things, to where
01:08:16it just, like, kept piling stress on top of me.
01:08:21And I think once I realize that I can't completely screw it up, like, say I hit a bad note,
01:08:26you
01:08:27know, say I don't look the best, I think just knowing that, like, I've, I found my place
01:08:32and I ain't going anywhere.
01:08:34Like, now that I've, like, put my stake in the ground, it definitely takes some stress off.
01:09:02All the hardships that I've had, I feel like the words that I write are different because
01:09:07of that, and I feel like that's why I went through a lot of things that I did, and that's
01:09:12why it took me as long as it did, and all of those things, is because I had not been
01:09:15through enough yet to tell the kind of stories that I was supposed to tell.
01:09:18I reached out to Reba, probably about a year ago, I said, this is a loaded question, but
01:09:23what do you do when you feel like you can't go any further?
01:09:27And she said, I do it for somebody else.
01:09:31And that right there has put so much into perspective for me.
01:09:35I get on that stage, and I do it for other people.
01:09:38This is not about you.
01:09:45Can I see your sign?
01:09:48Y'all look at the sign right here.
01:10:15We all know that North Carolina and a lot of us are here.
01:10:19Other states have been through a lot, even parts of Georgia in the past few weeks, and
01:10:27man, I'm getting emotional.
01:10:31But I just want to say, I know a lot of y'all probably are feeling heartbreak for your friends
01:10:41and your family, and my heart is with y'all, my crew's heart is with y'all.
01:10:46We're going to lay it at his feet tonight, and that's what we're going to do.
01:10:54And we're going to have the time of our life, and I'm so thankful that y'all are here tonight.
01:11:00Any opportunity I get to make this about anything other than myself, I want to make it about other
01:11:05people.
01:11:06It makes my job a lot easier.
01:11:13Lainey, during that Attagirl moment, a couple of songs before, this woman taps me, she's
01:11:21like, Eric, Eric.
01:11:23And she's like, hey, I want to ask you if you could try to get a couple of photos of
01:11:27this
01:11:28daughter and this mom.
01:11:29This mom just found out that she has stage four cancer, and she doesn't have much longer
01:11:34to live until they're at this concert together.
01:11:37And who did you pick for Attagirl?
01:11:39That was the most moving moment.
01:11:40I'm like, are they still here?
01:11:41I know you're going to try and find them.
01:11:43Is the little girl from the front row, the cowgirl that I still hear?
01:11:48Shit.
01:11:49Do you have a phone, Hunter?
01:11:55Here, but this is the photo of the mom.
01:11:57It just kills me.
01:11:59We want her to come back, if possible.
01:12:01She's in the middle.
01:12:02And her mom and whoever's with her.
01:12:04I'll let y'all know what happens.
01:12:05Okay.
01:12:06She's in the middle, right there.
01:12:09But, like, it just kills me.
01:12:16Dude.
01:12:20Woo.
01:12:21Unreal.
01:12:24Yup.
01:12:29It was beautiful.
01:12:31Bless her little heart.
01:12:33Ugh.
01:12:34They were on a mission, just like...
01:12:36Stage four?
01:12:37Yeah, that's what the woman told me.
01:12:39Oh my gosh.
01:12:40Thinking back on him, like, she's not going to have a mama there to tell her that she's
01:12:43going to point some art and talented and all those things.
01:12:45It's just, ugh.
01:12:49Food for you.
01:12:49They're coming up.
01:12:50The people are coming?
01:12:52Oh my gosh.
01:12:52Okay.
01:12:59I'm so glad that you got to get up there.
01:13:02I'm so glad that you got to get up there, girl.
01:13:05Can I just say a little prayer over y'all?
01:13:07Absolutely.
01:13:07Absolutely.
01:13:08Lord Jesus, I come to you right now, Father.
01:13:12And I just pray for peace, just a peace that only comes from you, God.
01:13:18I pray for healing.
01:13:20I just pray that you just wrap this family in your loving arms, God.
01:13:24We love you, in your holy and precious name I pray, amen.
01:13:27Amen.
01:13:40Dude, there's definitely random things like that here and there that, like, just put things
01:13:47in a perspective.
01:13:47It's a reality check.
01:13:49It's a, like, I don't know how you get so wound up about the stupid stuff.
01:13:58You know?
01:14:00Like, did I hit the right chords?
01:14:02Did I sing the right word?
01:14:03Like, all that stuff.
01:14:04And then it's just, it don't matter.
01:14:07When things like that happen, I am thankful for my health, the life that I live.
01:14:16It's not about selling it out.
01:14:18It's about celebrating what we are given.
01:14:21It is a gift.
01:14:22This is all a gift.
01:14:35How did you pull this off?
01:14:45Are you kidding me?
01:14:47Are you kidding me?
01:14:53Are you kidding me?
01:14:56Are you kidding me?
01:14:59I'm not saying.
01:15:01Oh, my God.
01:15:02For real?
01:15:03For real?
01:15:04I'm about to throw up.
01:15:08I'm about to throw up.
01:15:10I'm about to throw up.
01:15:11I'm about to throw up.
01:15:14Yeah, so we're engaged.
01:15:16The truth is, I wasn't the little girl that dreamed about getting married and walking down
01:15:20the aisle.
01:15:21I was dreaming about playing the Grand Opry.
01:15:22I was, I was dreaming about hunting and football.
01:15:25Well, we did it.
01:15:29I don't know how I would have survived these last few years.
01:15:34I mean, I would come home off the road, I'm so tired.
01:15:37And he's the only one that would see it.
01:15:38But I'd be crying and packing my bag again.
01:15:41He got to see behind the curtain.
01:15:42He also knew how much went into doing this and how much that I have dedicated my life to it.
01:15:50He adds so much to my life.
01:15:52I'm like, why wouldn't I want to spend the rest of my life with my best friend and somebody
01:15:55who lifts me up and encourages me and shoots me straight, who cooks potato soup for me.
01:16:01This is making it.
01:16:02I just did not know that this was going to be, this was going to be a part of the
01:16:07making
01:16:07it part.
01:16:08Now I get to do both.
01:16:09I get to sing and write music and I get to live a happy, healthy life.
01:16:15.
01:16:25Surprise!
01:16:26What?
01:16:27Up.
01:16:29You're like, what you doing here?
01:16:32This is my daddy.
01:16:33Yeah.
01:16:34I'm Brian Wilson.
01:16:35How you doing?
01:16:35How you doing?
01:16:35Nice to meet you.
01:16:36Brian Wilson.
01:16:38We've been here many a times, haven't we, Daddy?
01:16:40Oh, yeah.
01:16:41In this building.
01:16:41Yeah, it's...
01:16:42Every rodeo and, uh, monster truck.
01:16:46Yeah.
01:16:47Also, as a kid, this seemed a lot bigger
01:16:51than it actually is, you know what I'm saying?
01:16:54It's the same seats that's been in here
01:16:55the whole time I've been coming.
01:16:57Yeah.
01:16:57So everything's the same.
01:16:59Yeah, everything's the same.
01:17:00But it's held up good.
01:17:01Yep.
01:17:03Crazy.
01:17:06I'll tell you what, Monroe losing it,
01:17:08it feels good to be home!
01:17:15I'm willing to bet that most of y'all are my family.
01:17:18So this is probably a, uh,
01:17:20big old family reunion tonight.
01:17:23Thank you so much for showing up, y'all.
01:17:27It feels so good to be back here.
01:17:29This is where we're ending the country's cool again, Toy.
01:17:33I feel like my life has changed,
01:17:35but I still feel exactly the same.
01:17:38And I think that's because I keep my people close.
01:17:41Those people who remind me who I am
01:17:43and where I come from,
01:17:44and the ones that encourage me
01:17:45to stay true to myself and my story.
01:17:50No matter where I go,
01:17:51no matter where this crazy dream takes me,
01:17:54and it has already taken me more places
01:17:56than I could imagine,
01:17:58I'm always gonna find my way back home,
01:18:01Monroe, Louisiana.
01:18:09There's a green pasture I want to be,
01:18:12and I'm a wild, wild flower,
01:18:14just getting ready for the picket,
01:18:15ooh.
01:18:22Thirty-one years is a long time,
01:18:25I'm gonna feed off the ground,
01:18:26but I'm a stearer, ooh.
01:18:34I don't need a mound,
01:18:36I don't need a road,
01:18:37I don't need a fence,
01:18:39I just need a road.
01:18:40If you want to love me,
01:18:42you don't need a road,
01:18:44you just need to know.
01:18:49Good horses come home.
01:18:53I mean, the first line is,
01:18:55if there's a green pasture,
01:18:56I want to be in it.
01:18:58I've always felt that way.
01:18:59I wanted to be outside,
01:19:01where I could see the wide open spaces,
01:19:02where I could dream,
01:19:04and I felt, like, safe,
01:19:06but also at the same time,
01:19:07I felt there was a big old world out there,
01:19:09you know?
01:19:12I knew I was gonna find somebody very special
01:19:14that was gonna be okay
01:19:15with this way of life,
01:19:17and, like, me being in this business.
01:19:20Duck is that person,
01:19:21I don't have to explain it to him.
01:19:23Put them hands up!
01:19:255.45, babe.
01:19:26What are we doing?
01:19:27Get these eggs retrieved.
01:19:30My hormones went up, down,
01:19:31backwards, and sideways.
01:19:34You've had a great attitude
01:19:35the whole time, baby.
01:19:36And you have, too.
01:19:40On the road again.
01:19:41Definitely doing that one.
01:19:44Oh, Willie.
01:19:45I'm gonna be able to be a wife,
01:19:47I'm gonna be able to be a mama,
01:19:49and I'm gonna be able to
01:19:52do this.
01:19:54I know it's not really easy,
01:19:57but I'm gonna do it.
01:20:05It's the first time you've ever seen me in a dress.
01:20:07Is that counted as a dress?
01:20:11You look like a cute little, uh...
01:20:32I know that I lead with love.
01:20:36It's about love.
01:20:38That's what it is.
01:20:39It is unconditional love.
01:20:42And that is beautiful.
01:20:46Good, good, good horses.
01:20:50Good horses come home.
01:20:58Go on.
01:21:03I'm the kind to take the case
01:21:06Don't sit in a shot
01:21:09I can't see you as a boy, and you won't do it.
01:21:17Amortized by the white lines, no hands in and two on this heart of mine.
01:21:26And four by four by you, babe, from the bayou to Kentucky,
01:21:33city to the country, from here to Timberton.
01:21:39Boy, after a long day, you know there ain't no wrong way
01:21:45to drive my crazy, crazy in a four by four by you.
01:21:51Boy, after a long day, you know there ain't no wrong way
01:21:58to drive my crazy, crazy in a four by four by you.
01:22:08Boy, after a long day, you know there ain't no wrong way to drive my crazy, crazy in a four
01:22:26by you.
01:22:26Boy, after a long day, you know there ain't no wrong way to drive my crazy, crazy in a four
01:22:29by you.
01:22:33Boy, after a long day, you know there ain't no wrong way to drive my crazy, crazy in a four
01:22:48by you.
01:22:48They never do.
01:23:00Somebody's blind.
01:23:03Somebody's free.
01:23:06Somebody's healing.
01:23:09But it sure ain't the real.
01:23:16They never do.
01:23:19They never do.
01:23:21They never do.
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