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Lainey Wilson Keepin Country Cool
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00:00:06Wee, wee wee wee wee wee wee wee
00:00:21I'm on the bus—dog's pissed on the floor.
00:00:27We're parked at an angle...
00:00:28And so the feet was running downhill.
00:00:34Watch your feet.
00:00:47The first seed that was planted in my heart as a child
00:00:51to where I am now, I knew that I would be here.
00:00:55There 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.
00:01:06Lady Wilson.
00:01:10But I believed it.
00:01:13I believed it. I believed it.
00:01:15I believed it.
00:01:28I believed it would be.
00:01:32I believed it.
00:01:33I knew it.
00:01:35I knew it.
00:01:37Lainey Wilson,
00:01:38took 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...
00:01:47And the CMA Award for Album of the Year.
00:01:50The 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.
00:02:03This is my very first Grammy.
00:02:04If you're gonna be a dreamer, you better be a doer.
00:02:07I ain't got a really got a pocket full of money.
00:02:10Let's go.
00:02:11Oh.
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 built on the line
00:02:57to make sure they never forget the name Lainey Wilson.
00:03:01We're in Nashville, Tennessee at a CMA operator.
00:03:04Tickets went on sale today to the public for Country's Cool Again tour.
00:03:09I'm about to get in the box office and go sell some tickets.
00:03:12Just say good morning, everybody.
00:03:13Oh, wait, I gotta give them this.
00:03:14Just can yell on and you'll be able to hear,
00:03:16and then we will hear everything from the door.
00:03:20Can you hear me?
00:03:22Yes.
00:03:23Is it actually loud?
00:03:25Yeah.
00:03:26It's pretty loud.
00:03:26Crank that thing up.
00:03:28Crank that thing up.
00:03:29People keep saying Country's Cool Again.
00:03:31Well, I say it never stopped being cool.
00:03:33The world just caught up.
00:03:34That's why I named the tour Country's Cool Again.
00:03:38We're about to hit 35 cities across America
00:03:40preaching that same message.
00:03:42Country's Cool Again, y'all.
00:03:44From a truck, on a stage.
00:03:54It'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.
00:04:19I keep blowing and blowing
00:04:22What's going on?
00:04:25They call me the free
00:04:27We got it.
00:04:29I keep blowing and blowing
00:04:43You can just reshape them over and over again, right?
00:04:46Yeah.
00:04:50Hippie, you're not coming with us.
00:04:51I'm so sorry.
00:04:53She only said, yeah.
00:04:55Yeah, yeah.
00:04:55You're not coming with us.
00:05:01This is my baby.
00:05:02He be Mae Wilson.
00:05:04She's a little potato.
00:05:16I just plussed it on y'all's party.
00:05:18No.
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.
00:05:31He 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.
00:05:58That 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.
00:06:08That 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, the best things.
00:06:32I never looked like the bad guy.
00:06:34And that's that porno.
00:06:36Halo.
00:06:37Corn.
00:06:38Yeah.
00:06:39Yeah.
00:06:39Yeah.
00:06:44Me and Madeline, 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, hey, would you want to rock with this girl?
00:07:02So she was, like, championing me when nobody would even know who she was.
00:07:06She was just trying to help me.
00:07:09Like, me and Madeline were dancing on Jackson Dean's bus, and we were just, like, dancing, and we were just
00:07:14having 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.
00:07:26But, uh, we just work through it.
00:07:27To me, that's what makes it even better is our friendship, because, like, no matter what, we're going to work
00:07:32through it.
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 going to 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, because I remember banging on that guitar.
00:07:53Okay, well, I was, like, I've got to leave, and then she was, like, I was, like, did I sound
00:07:56okay 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 stopped.
00:08:04And then after, and I was, like, I didn't see anything.
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.
00:08:17And 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 life.
00:08:30That's our life right there, just hanging on by a thrift.
00:08:32Literally.
00:08:45There's Lainey, the musician, and there's Lainey, 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.
00:09:21When 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,
00:09:34where are we?
00:09:39It is a whirlwind.
00:09:41You get to live like ten years in one year.
00:09:56So 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, Beyoncé, and...
00:10:06Face of Musgraves.
00:10:07Yep.
00:10:08Pretty 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 outlook.
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, I realized you can't just be a decent singer-songwriter
00:10:45as 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 straffy 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.
00:11:13I grew up, like, watching Dolly.
00:11:16In my opinion, it's like the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and Dolly Parton.
00:11:20You know what I'm saying?
00:11:21She 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.
00:11:49That's a feeling that I want when I write music, when I get on stage and pour my heart out.
00:12:16I was just saying that the sun's over there, so I don't have his eyes, so I'm good.
00:12:24We're in Baskin, Louisiana.
00:12:25We'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, but not nothing fancy, just guitar and piano.
00:12:57Lainey could sing.
00:12:59She memorized the song, Butterfly Kisses, and she sang that at her kindergarten graduation.
00:13:04Butterfly kisses with her mama there.
00:13:08In any way...
00:13:09I've got a box of stuff.
00:13:10I'm sorry.
00:13:10Excuse me.
00:13:11Go ahead.
00:13:12Can I get a box of stuff?
00:13:13Sure.
00:13:14Yeah, feel good.
00:13:14Do you know where it's at in there?
00:13:16I've got all kinds of stuff in that box.
00:13:17I said, you 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.
00:13:27It's in the attic.
00:13:28Let me run over here and get this while she's doing it.
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.
00:14:00Music was a big part of my family.
00:14:03My daddy can play guitar by ear, and I just remember him sitting around the house and playing
00:14:08Hank Sr., 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 while my daddy was picking on the guitar.
00:14:19It was the soundtrack of our lives.
00:14:25I remember at five years old feeling like I think I feel more comfortable on stage than
00:14:31I do anywhere else.
00:14:36Me and my sister, we are very similar, but also very different.
00:15:05It's so wild how you can grow up to be so different, but be raised as close as we were.
00:15:11I like my name is Jenna Wilson, and I'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 the letters are.
00:15:30I just made the idea to use it to actually work.
00:15:34Does this look legit?
00:15:36Yeah.
00:15:38Perfect, perfect, perfect.
00:15:41It was like we never really compared our journeys.
00:15:45It's always been we have dreams and goals of our own, and we were going to do whatever we
00:15:49needed to do to get them.
00:15:52Welcome tonight, our beautiful homecoming queen of 2008, Ms. Jana Michelle Wilson.
00:15:58Having her as my sister really does help me keep a foot on the ground, because when I get
00:16:03to call back home and see them, I see how the simple things in life are what brings true
00:16:10happiness.
00:16:16When I go home and I get to play in the yard with them and jump on the trampoline, it
00:16:21definitely
00:16:22connects 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, I feel it in my heart, too, that I was
00:16:36called
00:16:36to be a mama.
00:16:39That will really change things, because it won't be about just you anymore.
00:16:44And I 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.
00:16:51No, so, so, pack it on your pen.
00:16:53Okay.
00:16:54I'm scared.
00:16:57I had this vision and this goal that like things were going to work out for me musically
00:17:01a lot quicker than they had, you know?
00:17:04I'm going to be married by the time I'm 25.
00:17:06I'm going to have kids by the time I'm 27, 28, and sometimes the Lord just has other
00:17:12plans.
00:17:15She does want a family, you know, but 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.
00:17:27Step.
00:17:28I'm going to freeze my eggs in April.
00:17:31I'm going to 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 I just think I'd be a good mama.
00:17:39I think so, too.
00:17:43I want you to pull somebody close.
00:17:46Y'all, this record we put out, I'm showing a side of me that I didn't even know existed.
00:17:50I'm in a happy, healthy relationship with 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, so I'm going to 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, during this crazy season, I keep my people close.
00:18:11And that's what this song is about right here.
00:18:13It's called Four by Four by Eight.
00:18:15Woo!
00:18:31Step, are we supposed to get a bunch of rain the 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 when I was, like, 13 years old.
00:18:53And they're like, it's duck season, it'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 I school and 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 the NFL so I could buy me a truck and a duck hunting
00:19:13cabin.
00:19:13And that's what I did.
00:19:15Because I really do feel like the outdoors is, 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, so.
00:19:25Sorry, I may not open it again.
00:19:26Have you seen my cell phone?
00:19:27Uh, I have not.
00:19:30She loses that phone all the time.
00:19:32You are slightly going to mix.
00:19:33We met just through mutual friends.
00:19:36I asked her to dinner one night.
00:19:39There'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 I was going to 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 my finger by then.
00:20:01Don't worry.
00:20:02I've got one now.
00:20:04Yeah.
00:20:06I ain't got it on me, though.
00:20:08But I got one.
00:20:09I probably had it for a month.
00:20:12Yeah, a month.
00:20:14I don't know.
00:20:14I actually have a clue.
00:20:15Not a clue.
00:20:23The wheel stops spinning completely if I'm not songwriting.
00:20:27Because no matter what, it always comes back to the music.
00:20:30Hello.
00:20:30Good to see y'all.
00:20:36I 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 and making sure that everybody's on the same page about how important it is.
00:20:52I'm always writing for another record.
00:20:55It was like a month before Worldwide came out.
00:20:57I felt like I had a handful of them.
00:20:59I was ready to go.
00:21:00I'm on with the next one.
00:21:01But I love Worldwide so much.
00:21:03I want it to live its life.
00:21:04I want to give it its moment.
00:21:05You 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.
00:21:18Or maybe it's like,
00:21:19Oh, free and ma'er.
00:21:20Oh, that's nice, too.
00:21:24Didn't have no money, but it's allowed to hit the lotto.
00:21:26Oh, that's pretty cool.
00:21:26Like, we were broke as shit, but, like, broke as a joke, but didn't hit the lotto.
00:21:32That was the night we met.
00:21:33At Silverado's.
00:21:34At Silverado's.
00:21:35Hanging out there.
00:21:36I was broke.
00:21:37I was so broke when we met.
00:21:39Yeah.
00:21:39And he thought I was doing a little bit better than I was.
00:21:41But a few weeks after we met, my sister had to Venmo me a couple hundred bucks so I could
00:21:46get at Taco Bell a few times a week.
00:21:48So, wandered on downtown to Silverado's.
00:21:51The 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 that I loved how it made me feel when I was
00:22:05in the middle of writing the song, when I was coming up with the idea, feeling like,
00:22:08man, I created something from nothing.
00:22:10How cool is that?
00:22:11And I knew that that feeling was so special that I couldn't completely let it go, and
00:22:14I think that's why I knew it was my calling.
00:22:18I feel like we're writing a record, but 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 and 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.
00:22:40I have two right now, so I'm three.
00:22:42I just started going to therapy in, like, the last couple months.
00:22:46Honestly, kind of growing up, I 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, she would record on a CD.
00:23:11And then I'd burn the records for her and make the labels.
00:23:15She did always sing.
00:23:18She did always sing, and then she would enter any contest, and she would win.
00:23:25Because of how much that my family believed in me, that made me feel like I could believe
00:23:31in myself.
00:23:33Because my mama was a teacher, it was almost like she was a facilitator type thing, and
00:23:37kind of like a coach.
00:23:38She tried to help me as much as she possibly could, and would look for opportunity for
00:23:43me.
00:23:43She's going to come out in just a minute, so don't go anywhere.
00:23:47Y'all make sure y'all hang out, and then later on, she'll be signing an autograph for
00:23:51you, okay?
00:23:52All right!
00:23:53I wanted to do it all, and 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 wish, yeah?
00:24:03Mm-hmm.
00:24:05You have to live it.
00:24:07You have to live the songs on stage.
00:24:12Don't stop it.
00:24:13Don't stop it.
00:24:13Okay.
00:24:15And I knew it made my parents proud to see me, like, singing the new songs that I wrote
00:24:19and things like that, so of course it made me want to do it more, because I wanted them
00:24:23to be proud.
00:24:24And I still catch myself doing that now.
00:24:27Like, when something great happens or whatever, like, I want to call them and tell them, hey,
00:24:32like, because I want them to be proud, which can be a rough thing at times, too, you know?
00:24:40It looked good.
00:24:42Pulling out the driveway.
00:24:43Hit up, we'll look for you.
00:24:44I can't do it!
00:24:46That's the reason why I think now's the time for you to take boys' lessons.
00:24:50Right now, I can just, I just know it's time.
00:24:52My mama took me, and my daddy figured out how to get us there.
00:24:55It was a team effort, and my sister was just mad as hell that she even had to go home
00:24:59for
00:25:00the ride.
00:25:12I toured as Hannah Montana, and I did three or four birthday parties a weekend.
00:25:17Well, a lot of the times, I would open the show as Laney Wilson, and then I would run behind
00:25:22a tree or whatever it was and put on my Hannah Montana getup.
00:25:26So I did that from eighth grade to twelfth grade.
00:25:29I was driving around when I didn't even have a license to do that.
00:25:32Several times a week, I was going and playing at random things, whether it was the Walmart
00:25:37grand opening, or the grand opening of the convenience store down the road, or going to
00:25:42the nursing home and singing for my mama and her buddies.
00:25:45And any place that would let me perform, I would go do it.
00:25:48A lot of my friends, every weekend, were going down to LSU to watch the ballgames, and I was
00:25:54always busy playing music, and for me, that was like an easy choice.
00:25:58It wasn't about, like, the little bit of money that I was making, it was just about because
00:26:02I loved it.
00:26:04My favorite part of the night.
00:26:08Y'all know what time it is.
00:26:12You want to be counting out the night?
00:26:13Come on.
00:26:14Get up here.
00:26:18What's your name?
00:26:20Do you want to be cowgirl 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.
00:26:32I am smart.
00:26:33I am smart.
00:26:34I can do anything.
00:26:35I can do anything.
00:26:36And I'm cowgirl of the night.
00:26:39And I'm cowgirl of the night.
00:26:40And I'm cowgirl of the night.
00:26:44I think it is so important to 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.
00:26:55I want them to see that.
00:26:57I want them to see how brave that little girl is on stage.
00:27:01Repeating these things out loud, I think words are powerful.
00:27:03And I think what you say, you start believing.
00:27:06That's why it's so important to try your best not to speak negatively to yourself.
00:27:10I've done it.
00:27:11It ain't fun.
00:27:13And so it's like I'm teaching them, but every single night I'm getting to teach myself too.
00:27:20I can't drive.
00:27:22It's been a drive through the bus.
00:27:26Bust on trees in the gasoline.
00:27:29And I know how we hold the key.
00:27:33I've got a love in the dark and sweet.
00:27:36Rise is tall to you.
00:27:38I love you.
00:27:40I know I've got a love in the sky.
00:27:43But it's good as it is.
00:27:46Oh, oh.
00:27:53Oh, oh.
00:28:00Go on, shoot, keep your night, hug your head, stay.
00:28:04Chime it up, hold it up, let it roll in.
00:28:07It's a hard line, right to the sun.
00:28:11It's a hard line, right to the sun.
00:28:31You know, Tim McGrawl 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 McGrawl.
00:28:45She's always had manners.
00:28:48My name is Laney 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 to
00:28:59pursue a nursing degree.
00:29:02I have been writing songs since I was nine 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.
00:29:13Oh, 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, Laney 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 Tonky Talent Search winner.
00:30:03Orphel Massile.
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.
00:30:16My 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. If you do, I'll kick your butt.
00:30:45You 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.
00:31:00And 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.
00:31:11I 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. It 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 and then
00:31:35go and get me a bag of chips and a Slim Jim.
00:31:41Go to bed and do it all over again.
00:31:45Jerry taught me how to write a song.
00:31:48We 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.
00:31:59This 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.
00:32:06What's that?
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.
00:32:15It 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.
00:32:23That'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 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.
00:32:56But 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, Laney 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.
00:33:28That's pretty cool.
00:33:30He spoke it.
00:33:32Like when you were making me around and you were knocking on doors,
00:33:34could you ever say, here's my CD and here's my portfolio?
00:33:37Yeah.
00:33:37Yeah.
00:33:38I used to go, I printed up a bunch of these and just put in people's mailboxes.
00:33:43I'd like burn a bunch of CDs.
00:33:46And I'd walk up and down the music group.
00:33:48And just see like who would, I mean most people wouldn't answer the door.
00:33:51I had a few people saying the door in my face, but then I'd go on to the next one.
00:33:58I definitely did have moments where I was thinking to myself, what in the world am I doing?
00:34:02Like this is a lot harder than I ever thought it was going to be.
00:34:06Because 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.
00:34:15Ooh, that was fun.
00:34:20We're all coming from some semblance of the same experience.
00:34:23Like I worked really hard in the gutter in a punk band,
00:34:26the 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 anti-van.
00:34:33We've all been through that stuff and we all know how much we need the support of the people immediately
00:34:38around 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.
00:34:59Gorgeous.
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.
00:35:29We would be going to do a three hour cover show and there's a mechanical bull in the back of
00:35:33the room that's more interesting than what's happening on stage.
00:35:35Or it's a bad night and there's 40 people there and they're all drunk huddling around the bar and nobody's
00:35:39listening.
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 gotta 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.
00:35:55Just stand up on my side.
00:35:58Lani was sitting down every day, all day, talking with radio people and they switched to a new single, which
00:36:05was Things of Man or No.
00:36:06And yeah, I know a boy who gave up and got it wrong.
00:36:12If you really love a woman, you don't let her go.
00:36:18I know a few days I'm banging on the road.
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.
00:36:36Cute. That's really fucking cute.
00:36:39I asked Lani that night, you got a number one. Like, what do we do next? Like, what's your next
00:36:45goal? What 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, that's completely insane. Like, what are you talking about?
00:36:54And then it happened.
00:36:59So many things that I never thought would happen for me or for her or for whatever.
00:37:04She just speaks into existence, it seems.
00:37:07And I know that that obviously goes hand in hand with how hard she works.
00:37:11Whatever thing you want to believe is like, makes 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. All of our shows, all of our, like, shoots and announces and
00:37:29brands, PR, styling and wardrobe.
00:37:33We've got photo shoots.
00:37:36That gives me heart palpitations.
00:37:38No, it shouldn't. You should breathe easy because 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.
00:37:50But, like, I'm a lot better than I used to be.
00:37:55I would look like eight months ahead and then go, like, how am I going to get to eight months,
00:38:01you know?
00:38:02I have feared over exposure.
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 where I'm talking about me, me, me, me, me.
00:38:13That I'm like, I can't imagine how some people feel if they're just scrolling and they just say me, me,
00:38:17me, me, me.
00:38:18Like, I get nervous about that feeling.
00:38:20I get nervous about, is anybody going to still care in 10 years?
00:38:23They should, but I more get fearful about, like, people's just, like, behavior and short attention spans.
00:38:30I'm always, like, thinking about, like, what's next.
00:38:34Which is probably why I struggle with a little bit of anxiety.
00:38:37Because, what, they say depression is past and anxiety is the future.
00:38:42So, about how long of a thing is it?
00:38:44Fifteen minutes. Fifteen.
00:38:45It's like that Spotify album playback.
00:38:48Got it. Where I just kind of talk in between.
00:38:49Yeah.
00:38:51So, they cannot see me.
00:38:53Correct.
00:38:54Thank God.
00:38:58Now you're in the waiting room, like 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? It'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 Hang Tight Honey that I got to play on Yellowstone last night.
00:39:18Y'all know what this one's about. Crank it up.
00:39:23That's great.
00:39:25Ooh.
00:39:29Great.
00:39:30Great.
00:39:32It's something to do with my frequency.
00:39:34Well, don't be so frequent.
00:39:38I'm like...
00:39:40There's so much work that has to be put in to collect the little pennies here and there that it's
00:39:46almost like you can't even collect all your money if 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.
00:39:56It used to be like .0009, like 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, but, 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 where the singer says her names.
00:40:34She sang over a thousand 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 a thousand 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, you better get ready to party.
00:41:04That is it.
00:41:06Woo!
00:41:06Yeah!
00:41:07By the time that was over, I felt like my brain was fried, died, and laid to the side.
00:41:12The celebrity-ism of it is just, like, our version of marketing for it.
00:41:17It's always about selling it.
00:41:18It's always about selling it.
00:41:18But, like, all the stuff that makes a show, like, we carry that.
00:41:22It's a circus.
00:41:23And so you pay for it every day, and the trucks that they ride in, and even the cases that
00:41:27the
00:41:27equipment rides in.
00:41:29Yes.
00:41:29Everything goes into a box, into a bigger box, into a bigger box.
00:41:32Yes.
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, have freedom to do what she wants on the music
00:41:46side.
00:41:47Um, so that's nice.
00:41:50I wrote this song years ago, probably like three years ago, or more.
00:41:58And then Charlie Warshaw, who's played on some of my records, I'm a big ol' fan of, recorded
00:42:07it.
00:42:08So I'm just gonna go sing Home Money.
00:42:32I like that.
00:42:33Yeah, that was awesome.
00:42:33I like that.
00:42:37Well, I think they like the high one.
00:42:39I just wanna 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 lets go.
00:42:48Somebody holds on.
00:42:50You fall out of love.
00:42:53Hearts break right in two.
00:42:56You think they break evil.
00:43:01Oh, but they never do.
00:43:15That was awesome, though.
00:43:16I love how you did a little extra piece of gasp there.
00:43:21Just because I was unsure where to go.
00:43:23It was nice.
00:43:24And then I changed my mind.
00:43:25I was like, come back down.
00:43:26It's really good.
00:43:27I would just do you on that.
00:43:29I was telling him it's very predictable to cut the background vocals for the breakdown,
00:43:33but it's my two favorite voices in country-western music.
00:43:37Why the fuck would we do that, right?
00:43:39Except 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 and it would be great.
00:43:47Honestly, a lot of the collaborations that I have done have come from, like, real friendships
00:43:52with 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.
00:44:02Boom.
00:44:04Let me get just a little bit more Post.
00:44:07Here we go.
00:44:08Baby, don't waste your time on me.
00:44:12Yeah.
00:44:13I'm so damaged.
00:44:14I'm so damaged.
00:44:16Jelly Roll, he had put the song, Save Me Out, and he asked me if I wanted to be a
00:44:21part
00:44:21of it.
00:44:21I just thought it would be cool to kind of, like, give the woman's perspective, point
00:44:25of view with that song.
00:44:28Hey, it's Rainbow.
00:44:29Miranda.
00:44:30And Laney.
00:44:30Our new song, Trailblazer, is out right now.
00:44:32Tap the link below to listen.
00:44:35Hey, it's Rainbow.
00:44:36Miranda.
00:44:38All the collaborations that we've done have to feel, like, organic.
00:44:43Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
00:44:46Y'all ready?
00:44:47Roots and Dunn are here, and 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.
00:44:56Blue door like tea.
00:44:59It's kind of like a weird sense of peace about it that I get to call these people who I
00:45:05admire
00:45:05and the folks that have inspired me like I get to call them friends now.
00:45:21It's kind of hard for me to wrap my head around, but I also know, like, I'm right where I'm
00:45:24supposed to be.
00:45:32We're going to eat a little bit of supper, and 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, and then I can't talk.
00:45:56I forgot how to talk.
00:45:57He is kind of a hard shell to crack at first.
00:46:00He has a wall up.
00:46:01For some reason, it'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?
00:46:23Hey, Willie.
00:46:24Hippie!
00:46:25I got salmon, and I got steaks.
00:46:27That's what we could do either.
00:46:30What in?
00:46:31I got baked potatoes.
00:46:32You ain't got 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.
00:46:50I 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 one.
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.
00:47:54I 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, who am I?
00:49:08What have I done?
00:49:10I don't know.
00:49:18I should have posted that one.
00:49:20I kind of learned this.
00:49:22I'm going to talk to Lainey Wilson for a moment.
00:49:25I am.
00:49:26Lainey Wilson.
00:49:27Yes, very nice to meet you.
00:49:28Lainey, nice to meet y'all.
00:49:30How you doing, man?
00:49:31Stuart's from behind.
00:49:32Lainey.
00:49:32Karen Kardashian got nothing on you.
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.
00:50:02What 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 can get up for a little while.
00:50:15Here I ride.
00:50:16You're the baby.
00:50:17Just like John get right.
00:50:18You're the new on the side.
00:50:20And I'm ready to go home.
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.
00:50:26Let 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.
00:50:50I mean, whatever.
00:50:51It had nothing to do with my music.
00:50:52But the music could always back it up.
00:50:54People would 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.
00:51:12I can't believe that that was a moment that kind of steered people towards my music.
00:51:16But I also was like, well, what'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.
00:51:47But 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.
00:51:54So thank you so much.
00:52:02Last year, we did a 14-hour meet and greet at the bar.
00:52:06And I met 1,111 people that day.
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 to say that
00:52:22meant something.
00:52:24Because 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.
00:52:34And they learned how to play the song on the guitar.
00:52:36And 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.
00:52:50Um, it's important for me to, um, to wrap my arms around them and, and let them know that there's
00:53:01more 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, then I can't do the job that I need to do.
00:53:18I absolutely do, like, soak up people's energy.
00:53:21I 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 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.
00:53:47Yeah.
00:53:47That it's not going to take as much press.
00:53:50I think it's just going to be like, these are some things that I wrote.
00:53:53Yeah.
00:53:54Let's do a few interviews.
00:53:56Carry on.
00:53:57Yeah.
00:53:57I feel that strong about it.
00:53:59And maybe I'm naive or just a dumbass.
00:54:01The 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.
00:54:18I 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 Shack, cold 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 luni and a daughter.
00:54:42Summer he waved on, gave much hotter than a burn.
00:54:46And that first kiss.
00:54:47Boy.
00:54:48I do like hinting around to more of a wedding.
00:54:51I know we're saying it at the altar, but like since we're going with the borrowed and blue, like, might
00:54:56as well go for it, right?
00:54:57Yeah, yeah.
00:54:57Every 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.
00:55:06Hanging my honeymoon.
00:55:08Talk on the ticker, I 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.
00:55:19Yesterday, 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.
00:55:32Damn, it kind of felt like we done and hit the lot of free beer from 5 to 10.
00:55:37Got me wishing I could live.
00:55:40Yesterday, all day, every day.
00:55:43Stuck in a loop like Monks and Tony.
00:55:46No talk on the ticker, I 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.
00:56:00All 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.
00:56:11I'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.
00:56:21All of you for the rest of my life.
00:56:24Yesterday, all day, every day.
00:56:28All of you for the rest of my life.
00:56:34This 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's doing.
00:56:51Hello?
00:56:53Hi.
00:56:54What are you doing?
00:56:57Dead at 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.
00:57:09And I think the world could use some more ducks.
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.
00:57:45It's a process.
00:57:45I mean, it is hormonally insane.
00:57:49My 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,
00:57:58just in case, because it is a dream of mine 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, the top has too many good lumps.
00:58:17Good problem to have, though.
00:58:18That is a good problem to have.
00:58:23Look, um, should I wear a white shirt?
00:58:25I'm going to...
00:58:26Let's see.
00:58:27This will probably work here.
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, no
00:58:49I'm not going to let them catch on the good night
00:58:52You look like sunshine's coming out of 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 the road goes on forever
00:59:10Very cool.
00:59:12But I've got one more silver dollar
00:59:16Will we get some snacks in here
00:59:18Or are they going to have snacks at the rolls?
00:59:20Oh, it's food plastic.
00:59:22It honestly never even crossed my mind
00:59:24That I would get nominated for a Grammy
00:59:26In general.
00:59:27And the Grammy goes to
00:59:29Laney Wilson.
00:59:30When we won Country Album of the Year
00:59:32With Bell Bottom Country
00:59:34It felt great.
00:59:35It felt like, man, okay,
00:59:36Now I'm being acknowledged
00:59:37By a wide variety of peers
00:59:42We're not going to Grammy tomorrow
00:59:45Yeah, and?
00:59:48I mean, I actually really don't know
00:59:49But I, it's
00:59:50We're not gonna
00:59:52I'm just trying to think, like
00:59:53If the Lord parts the sea tomorrow
00:59:58Because he's done that a few times
01:00:02Just trying to figure out why
01:00:04If we're in that position
01:00:06What am I gonna share
01:00:07That I've never shared
01:00:11I try not to put too much value
01:00:13In winning awards
01:00:15You know, I accept it with a grateful
01:00:17And open heart
01:00:18And open mind
01:00:20But what you have today
01:00:21Might not exist tomorrow
01:00:23And so it's gotta be
01:00:24A healthy relationship
01:00:25I have with these awards
01:00:27Because they can easily be taken away
01:00:37Thank you
01:00:39Thank you
01:00:39Thank you
01:00:58And the Grammy goes to Cowboy Carter.
01:01:14The night's over.
01:01:16Oh yeah, take it off the lashes, dude.
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. I 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.
01:02:26Mindy?
01:02:27Uh, uh, let me ask Daniel.
01:02:32Daniel, tell you what.
01:02:33I am sick as I don't.
01:02:35You ought to try to, you ought to try something to laugh too, like a 30 minute nap.
01:02:40I mean, you didn't get much sleep.
01:02:43You sick all night.
01:02:45That 30 minute nap may get you through the night.
01:02:51Of course, I'm going to have to still survive.
01:02:53That'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? How y'all doing?
01:03:10I don't know. You doing all right, ma'am?
01:03:11Oh, yeah.
01:03:12Sure.
01:03:12Yeah.
01:03:24We're going to, we're going to come back.
01:03:28She don't look happy.
01:03:31Hey, Lani.
01:03:34Leave it out of my face.
01:03:37We just had a wardrobe malfunction.
01:03:39What happened?
01:03:40What happened?
01:03:42I busted out of my britches.
01:03:44So you know it's going to be good night.
01:03:47These 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?
01:03:53Oh, here, it's our last, it's our last.
01:03:59It's our last date.
01:04:02Enjoyed it.
01:04:04It 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, I told you, don't call any 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 together,
01:04:41I need to be by myself.
01:04:43I love people, but in order for me to like fill my cup back up, I need to like lock
01:04:49it down for a minute.
01:04:58I always love making people laugh.
01:05:01There's times when, like, I could be feeling bad about myself, and I feel like, at least if I'm like
01:05:07picking on myself, it's not gonna hurt my feelings if other people are.
01:05:11You know, I'm like, 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, it was just a few years ago.
01:05:24I honestly didn't know if I was ever gonna be funny again.
01:05:33When did I start feeling like myself again?
01:05:40A couple years ago 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,
01:05:54you want to just take them all.
01:05:55And I guess a little bit of that was probably fear that they weren't always gonna be there.
01:06:00I think it went good.
01:06:01I don't really know about to just throw me on.
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,
01:06:12the girl who's going and shaking everybody's hands and kissing everybody's babies,
01:06:16instead of who I truly am.
01:06:21Are you feeling a little sick today, or?
01:06:23Yeah, I got two IVs in the past 24 hours.
01:06:28I'm just feeling tired.
01:06:29I feel like if I keep hammering it, I'm just gonna put myself in my life.
01:06:33Did you eat or won't eat?
01:06:34Well, I'm out of the crowd.
01:06:36Woo!
01:06:37You good, baby?
01:06:38So overstimulated.
01:06:39I'm just gonna 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 was not feeling myself for a couple of years.
01:06:48I had reached a point where I was just like,
01:06:51I 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,
01:07:00because I was like, why in the world 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.
01:07:09I 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.
01:07:23And St. Louis Airport, I remember where I was, pushed up against that glass wall.
01:07:27I thought I was not gonna come back from that either.
01:07:30Yeah, she said, I can't stop crying.
01:07:32I think I'm losing my mind.
01:07:34It 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 gonna 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,
01:08:03I don't have my shit all together.
01:08:05First of all, I was putting so much pressure on myself to get it right, to be right,
01:08:10to be perfect, show up, sing the damn song, look good doing it,
01:08:14all of these things to where it just like kept piling stress on top of me.
01:08:21And I think once I realized that I can't completely screw it up,
01:08:25like say I hit a bad note, you know,
01:08:27say I don't look the best.
01:08:29I think just knowing that like, I've, I found my place,
01:08:32and I ain't going anywhere.
01:08:34I feel like now that I've like, put my stake in the ground,
01:08:36it definitely takes some stress off.
01:09:02All the hardships that I've had, I feel like the words that I write,
01:09:06are different because of that.
01:09:08And I feel like that's why I went through a lot of things that I did,
01:09:12and that's why it took me as long as it did, and all of those things is because I had
01:09:15not
01:09:15been through 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,
01:09:23but what 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 other states have been through a lot,
01:10:22even parts of Georgia, in the past few weeks, and man, I'm getting emotional.
01:10:34I just want to say, I know a lot of y'all probably are feeling a heartbreak for your
01:10:40friends and your family, and my heart is with y'all.
01:10:44My 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,
01:11:03I want to make it about other people.
01:11:06It makes my job a lot easier.
01:11:13Lainey, during that, uh, attagirl moment, a couple of songs before,
01:11:18um, this woman, like, taps me.
01:11:20She's like, Eric, Eric!
01:11:23And she's like, hey, I want to ask you, like, if you could try to get, like, a couple photos
01:11:27of this daughter and this mom, this mom just found out that she has stage four cancer,
01:11:33and she doesn't have much long, longer to live, and so they're at this concert together.
01:11:37And who did you pick for attagirl?
01:11:39I'm like, are they still here?
01:11:42I know, do you want to try and find them?
01:11:43It's a little girl from the front row, the cowgirl, that I still hear.
01:11:49Shit, do you have a 20 on her?
01:11:53Six feet, okay.
01:11:55Here, but this is the photo of that, about the mom.
01:11:57It just kills me.
01:11:59Thank you, we 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.
01:12:10Like, just kills me.
01:12:15Dude.
01:12:19Woo.
01:12:21Unreal.
01:12:24Yep.
01:12:29It was beautiful.
01:12:31Bless her little heart.
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 them, like, she's not going to have a mama there to tell her that she's
01:12:43beautiful and smart and talented and all those things.
01:12:45It's just, ugh.
01:12:49Food for you, they're coming up.
01:12:50The people or something?
01:12:52Oh my gosh, okay.
01:12:59I'm so glad that you got to get out there.
01:13:03I'm so glad that you got to get up there, girl.
01:13:05Can I just say a little prayer?
01:13:06Absolutely.
01:13:08Lord Jesus, I come to you right now, Father.
01:13:12And I just pray for, for peace.
01:13:14Just a peace that, um, only comes from you, God.
01:13:18I pray for healing.
01:13:20I just, I pray that you just, 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.
01:13:38Dude.
01:13:41There's definitely random things like that here and there that, like,
01:13:46just put things into perspective.
01:13:48It's a reality check.
01:13:49It's a, like, I don't know how you get so wound up about the stupid stuff.
01:13:59You 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.
01:14:36How did you pull this off?
01:14:45Are you kidding me?
01:14:50Are you kidding me?
01:14:54Are you kidding me?
01:14:56Are you kidding me?
01:14:58Are you kidding me?
01:14:58I'm kidding me.
01:14:59100 percent.
01:15:00What are you kidding me?
01:15:01Oh, my God.
01:15:02For real?
01:15:03For real?
01:15:04I'm going to throw up.
01:15:08I'm gonna have to throw up
01:15:10I'm gonna 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 the aisle
01:15:21I was dreaming about playing the Grand Opry
01:15:22I was dreaming about hunting and football
01:15:25Well, we did it
01:15:26I 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
01:15:46And 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
01:15:55And somebody who lifts me up and encourages me
01:15:57And shoots me straight
01:15:58Who cooks potato soup for me
01:16:01This is making it
01:16:02I just did not know that this was gonna be
01:16:05This was gonna be a part of the making it part
01:16:08Now I get to do both
01:16:09I get to sing and write music
01:16:11And I get to live a happy, healthy life
01:16:25Surprise!
01:16:29You're like, what you doing here?
01:16:32This is my daddy
01:16:33Yeah, I'm Brian Wilson
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?
01:16:41Oh, yeah
01:16:41In this building
01:16:41Yeah, it's
01:16:42Every rodeo and monster truck
01:16:46Yeah
01:16:47Also, as a kid, this seemed a lot bigger
01:16:52Than it actually is, you know what I'm saying?
01:16:54It's the same seats that's been in here the whole time we've been coming
01:16:57Yeah
01:16:57See, everything's the same
01:16:58Yeah, everything's the same
01:17:00But it's held up good
01:17:01Yep
01:17:03Crazy
01:17:06I tell you what, Monroe, Louisiana, it 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 big 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 and where I come from
01:17:43And the ones that encourage me to 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 than I could imagine
01:17:58I'm always gonna find my way back home, Monroe, Louisiana
01:18:09There's a green pasture I wanna be in
01:18:12And I'm a wild, wildflower, just be ready for the picket
01:18:15Ooh
01:18:2231 years is a long time coming
01:18:25Feet off the ground, but I'm a stear up
01:18:28Ooh
01:18:34I don't need a mile, I don't need a road
01:18:37I don't need a fence, I just need a road
01:18:40If you wanna love me, you don't need a road
01:18:43You just need a road
01:18:49Good horses come home
01:18:51I mean, the first line is
01:18:55If there's a green pasture, I wanna 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
01:19:03And that's what I felt like
01:19:05Safe, but also at the same time
01:19:07I felt there was a big old world out there, you know
01:19:12I knew I was gonna have to find somebody very special
01:19:14That was gonna be okay with this way of life
01:19:17And, like, me being in this business
01:19:20Duck is that person, I don't have to explain it to him
01:19:23Put them hands up!
01:19:25545, babe
01:19:26What are we doing?
01:19:28Get these eggs retrieved
01:19:29My hormones went up, down, backwards, and sideways
01:19:34You've had a great attitude the whole time, baby
01:19:36Then you have too
01:19:40On the road again
01:19:41Definitely doing that one
01:19:44Oh, Willie
01:19:46I'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 gonna be 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 Canada? Is it Juras?
01:20:11You look cute little, uh
01:20:13Cafeteria lady
01:20:14Yeah
01:20:32I know that I lead with love
01:20:35It's about love
01:20:37That's what it is
01:20:39It is unconditional love
01:20:42And that is beautiful
01:20:45Good, good, good horses
01:20:49Good horses come home
01:21:03I'm the kind to take the gears
01:21:06Don't sit in a shock
01:21:09I'm gonna see you as a boy
01:21:11And you may
01:21:17Amortized by the white lines
01:21:19No hands in and two
01:21:20On this heart of mine
01:21:22It's a boy
01:21:24Yeah, boy
01:21:26And four by four by you, babe
01:21:30From the bayou to Kentucky
01:21:33City to the country
01:21:36I'm here in Timbertoon
01:21:39Oh, after a long day
01:21:42You know there ain't no wrong way
01:21:45To drive my crazy, crazy
01:21:48In a four by four by you
01:21:51Boy, after a long day
01:21:55You know there ain't no wrong way
01:21:58To drive my crazy, crazy
01:22:01In a four by four by you
01:22:04Beep, voiture drive my silver
01:22:09Yeah
01:22:09Whoo
01:22:10Whoo
01:22:12Whoo
01:22:13Whoo
01:22:14Whoo
01:22:15Whoo
01:22:16You
01:22:19Somebody's downtown
01:22:21Somebody's they're gone
01:22:24Somebody's they're gone
01:22:25Runs on a new height
01:22:27And ones just getting stoned
01:22:30Somebody, let's go
01:22:33Someone's on a new height
01:22:34Somebody holds on, you fall out of love, hearts break right in two, you'd think they'd break evil, but they
01:22:49never do.
01:23:00Somebody's blind, somebody's free, somebody's healing, but it sure ain't me easy.
01:23:16They never do, they never do.
01:23:42They never do.
01:23:43They never do.
01:23:43They never do.
01:23:45They never do.
01:23:46They never do.
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