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00:00:06How to You Know
00:00:07Wee! Wee! Wee! Wee! Wee! Wee! Wee! Wee! Wee!
00:00:15Wee! Wee! Wee! Wee! Wee!
00:00:21I'm on the bus.
00:00:23Dog'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.
00:01:06Len Wilson.
00:01:10But I believed it.
00:01:13I believed it. I believed it.
00:01:15I ain't tired of hearing from my life.
00:01:18I ain't got to hit the ball all the way.
00:01:20And I believed it.
00:01:23I knew that I was a kid.
00:01:26I knew that I was a kid.
00:01:29I knew it. I was a kid.
00:01:33I knew it.
00:01:35I knew it. I knew it.
00:01:37Lenny 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...
00:01:45Lenny 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...
00:01:53Lenny Wilson.
00:01:54Lenny Wilson.
00:01:54Lenny 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 a honey, got a pocket full of money.
00:02:10I'm putting it straight home.
00:02:18I'm putting it straight home.
00:02:34I'm putting it straight home.
00:02:36I 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
00:02:57to make sure they never forget the name, Lenny Wilson.
00:03:01We're in Nashville, Tennessee at a Zen Amperviator.
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 got to give them this.
00:03:14Can you hear me?
00:03:20Can you hear me?
00:03:23Is it actually loud?
00:03:25Yeah.
00:03:26It's pretty loud.
00:03:26Crank 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.
00:03:35That'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.
00:03:54It'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.
00:04:10It's fun.
00:04:11Huntsville, South Haven, Rogers, Arkansas.
00:04:15The night of Rogers, we flew to L.A.
00:04:41We're back here.
00:04:43You can just reshape them over and over again, right?
00:04:45Yeah.
00:04:50if you're not coming with us i'm so sorry she always said yeah yeah you're not coming with us
00:05:00this is my baby hippie mary wilson she's a little potato
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
00:05:38i've been producing punk americana and i went and saw her play and she played a new song called
00:05:57dream catcher that made me cry in the bar i had a visceral reaction that i had not had in
00:06:03a long
00:06:04time to music and so i just talked to her actually we really need to invent a two-sided microphone
00:06:08that way we could go through like this oh my god that would be fun i assume what she saw
00:06:14in me was
00:06:15that i was friends with her friends and i was not charging her very much money
00:06:21mandela and i both really thought our friend was talented and we didn't think enough people
00:06:26were aware of that there's a lot of good things about having her but one of the like the right
00:06:31the best things i never looked like the bad guy and that's important halo horns yeah yeah
00:06:44me and madeleine we became friends about nine years ago she was not a manager i could not get
00:06:50my feet up off the ground she 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
00:07:00and be like hey would you want to write with this girl so she was like championing me when nobody
00:07:05ever know who she was she was just trying to help me like me and mandel were dancing on jackson
00:07:11dean's
00:07:11bus and we were just like dancing and we were just having a conversation like this i think a lot
00:07:16of
00:07:16people have thought our relationship was dangerous no they're best friends like anything could happen
00:07:24and then his fan but uh we just worked through it to me that's what makes it even better is
00:07:29our
00:07:29friendship because like no matter what we're gonna work through it
00:07:36i'm like a facts person and i'm a feelings person yeah so when you mix those two things together
00:07:43you're gonna get some arguments every now and then we're playing a show in tuscaloosa it really
00:07:47wasn't that no it was bad okay well i remember banging on that guitar okay well after i was like
00:07:54i gotta
00:07:54leave and then she was like i was like did i sound okay or something i was like oh i
00:07:58gotta get mom's
00:07:58approval you know you said something like you sounded like i turned to leave and then i remember we
00:08:03and then i got after we had a scene in the middle of the bar so everybody saw it i
00:08:10was like no tell
00:08:11me to my face what i'm embarrassed well and it really like nobody remembers and i'm probably the only
00:08:18life that ever thought about it nobody remembers but thankfully hold on wow that is an accident waiting
00:08:27to happen look at our organized uh life that's our life right there just hanging on by a thread literally
00:08:45there's laney the musician and there's laney the celebrity but she has this whole other second job
00:08:50she has to do she views that as if i do the second job it helps the first job but
00:08:57i do this and this
00:08:58becomes successful it makes this part more successful exposes me to more people we can play
00:09:04bigger shows i can take care of my people better we pay everybody more we could you know it's a
00:09:09constant climb and a constant interchange that just doesn't end i 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 are we
00:09:39it is a whirlwind you get to live like 10 years and one year
00:09:43i was born so grammy noms came out for uh best country album yep and it's us chris stapleton stapleton
00:10:03post malone beyonce and facing musgraves yep pretty crazy
00:10:12we have to get seven outfits yeah multiple cma hosting outfits a carpet outfit a performance outfit
00:10:20and then the dallas cowboy cheerleader
00:10:28i've always loved like throwback clothes they made me feel like i could do anything a little bit
00:10:34of like a superhero costume had been here in nashville for a while i realized you can't just be a
00:10:43decent
00:10:44singer-songwriter as a female what else are you going to do to get somebody's attention for me it
00:10:49wasn't putting on a straffy bikini and shorts going up my butt i just couldn't and so it was bell
00:10:56bottoms
00:10:58the way that i dress was kind of how i sounded and the way that i sounded is kind of
00:11:01how i dressed and
00:11:02and it all just kind of ebbed and flowed that way
00:11:13i grew up like watching dolly in my opinion it's like the father the son the holy spirit and dolly
00:11:19parton you know what i'm saying she would hit all of these high notes and her arm would go up
00:11:25with a
00:11:25note and then like come back down i was studying it was school for me trying to wrap my head
00:11:33around
00:11:34what is that moment that like brings people in and together and makes them feel like they're not alone
00:11:40i knew it was my destiny i'll never forget like that feeling that i got in the audience
00:11:49there's a feeling that that i want when i write music when i get on stage and pour my heart
00:11:54out
00:12:16i was just saying that sun's over there so i don't have his eyes i'm good
00:12:24we're in baskin luciana we're about 30 miles south of monroe i've lived here for 39 years i've
00:12:32been here all my whole life i was raised right down there about a mile down the road
00:12:48i played music my whole life you know but not nothing fancy just the guitar and piano
00:12:57laney could sing she memorized the song butterfly kisses and she sang that at her kindergarten
00:13:03graduation in any way i've got a box of stuff i'm sorry excuse me go ahead can i get a
00:13:13box of stuff
00:13:13sure yeah still good okay you know where it's at in there i've got all kinds of stuff i said
00:13:17you know
00:13:17where it's at it's in that container out there the last box that i went and presented i don't know
00:13:23about
00:13:23that i think it's in the attic uh it's it's in the attic let me run over and get this
00:13:29while she's doing it
00:13:48as a kid she was really kind always kind she was one of these little girls that was like very
00:13:56sensitive
00:14:03and i just remember him sitting around the house and playing hank senior hey good looking
00:14:11my mama loves music she loves to dance me my mama and sister would make up dance routines while my
00:14:17daddy was picking on the guitar it was the soundtrack of our lives
00:14:23lady dance for me i remember at five years old feeling like i think i feel more comfortable
00:14:30on stage than i do anywhere else
00:14:36me and my sister we are very similar but also very different
00:14:52i don't think i have a marker jason you got a marker i mean it was mackenzie's but i think
00:14:58she's
00:14:58giving it to somebody so just sign your name let's just look at that let me see jana it's so
00:15:06wild how
00:15:06you can grow up to be so different but be raised as close as we were
00:15:16hello my name is jana wilson i'm from basking louisiana
00:15:23you need a new keyboard the letters don't need to show up
00:15:28you just know what you just know where the letters are i just made that use it actually work
00:15:40it was like we never really compared our journeys it's always been we have dreams and goals of our
00:15:48own and we were going to do whatever we needed to do to get them welcome tonight our beautiful home
00:15:54country queen of 2008 miss jana michelle wilson having her as my sister really does help me keep
00:16:01a foot on the ground because when i get to call back home and see them i see how the
00:16:06simple things in
00:16:07life are what brings true happiness oh you want me to jump yeah you have to say this you know
00:16:15all right
00:16:16when i go home and i get to like play in the yard with them and jump on the trampoline
00:16:21it definitely
00:16:22connects to my inner child they don't love me because i'm laney wilson they love me because i'm
00:16:28waney i think just like i was called to do this i feel it in my heart too that i
00:16:36was called to be a mama
00:16:39that will really change things because it won't be about just you anymore
00:16:43and i think i think it'll be a good feeling for you i think it'll make the job harder for
00:16:49everybody
00:16:50i know okay i'm scared i had this this vision and this goal that like things were going to work
00:17:00out for me musically a lot quicker than they had you know i'm gonna be married by the time i'm
00:17:0625 i'm
00:17:06have kids by the time i'm 27 28 and sometimes the lord just has other plans she does want a
00:17:16family
00:17:16you know but i don't know how she could go about having children and keep up that pace
00:17:24did you talk about getting your eggs frozen no but i can yeah we can talk about that step
00:17:28i'm gonna freeze my eggs in april i'm gonna put them babies on ice just to make sure like i'll
00:17:35probably be fine i'm 32 but i just think i'd be a good mama i think so too i want
00:17:43you to pull somebody
00:17:44close y'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
00:17:50a happy healthy relationship with a man named duck you heard it not doug like duck like b-u-c
00:17:56-k like
00:17:57wank wank the lord's got jokes he's like you ain't redneck enough so i'm gonna send you a man named
00:18:02duck i'm like lord help us but he is such a great dude he's my biggest cheerleader during this crazy
00:18:08time of my life during this crazy season i keep my people close and that's what this song was about
00:18:12right here it's called four by four bayi
00:18:31step we supposed to get a bunch of rain the rest of the week
00:18:36arkansas got pounded they got like six seven inches good duck water
00:18:45my name is duck that's what everyone calls me i won a world championship duck climbing contest when i was
00:18:51like thirteen years old like they're like it's duck season it's duck season so that's kind of where it
00:18:57comes 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 get to the 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 is like
00:19:17a 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'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.
00:19:32You ought to suddenly go next.
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
00:19:48I 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,
00:19:53we'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.
00:20:03I'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 actually have no clue.
00:20:15Oh, this is cool.
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.
00:20:30How are you doing?
00:20:31Good to see y'all.
00:20:33Good to see you.
00:20:34Good to see you.
00:20:34Good to see you.
00:20:35Good to see you.
00:20:36Good to see you.
00:20:37Good to see you.
00:20:37Good to see you.
00:20:40We back.
00:20:41We back, baby.
00:20:42Come ready.
00:20:43Yeah.
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
00:20:50how 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, I want it to live its life.
00:21:04I want to give it its moment, you know?
00:21:06Texting my mom, I think I found me a keeper.
00:21:09And he ain't a something-something, and hell, 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, ooh, for you, man.
00:21:20Oh, 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, but, like, broke as 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.
00:21:39Yeah.
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.
00:21:45So I could get at Taco Bell a few times a week.
00:21:48So, wandered on downtown to Silverado's.
00:21:51The 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
00:22:05the middle of writing the song, when I was coming up with the idea, feeling like, man,
00:22:08I created something from nothing.
00:22:09How cool is that?
00:22:11And I knew that that feeling was so special that 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, 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 going to kind of mess around and end up writing a record.
00:22:29It's just so therapeutic for me.
00:22:31You got to 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.
00:22:42I just started going to therapy in like the last couple of 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.
00:22:58I remember Daddy's dance moves.
00:23:02It's time to be.
00:23:03When Lainey 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.
00:23:16She did always sing.
00:23:18And then she would enter any contest.
00:23:51And she would win.
00:23:51Okay?
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?
00:24:15And I knew it made my parents proud to see me, like, singing the new songs that I wrote and
00:24:20things like that, so of course it made me want to do it more, because I wanted them to be
00:24:23proud.
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, like, because I
00:24:33want them to be proud.
00:24:35I want them to be proud, which can be a rough thing at times, too, you know?
00:24:40It looked good.
00:24:42Pulling down the driveway, hit up with a freeway, I 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 momma 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 on
00:24:59for the ride.
00:25:07All right, y'all have to help me rock out.
00:25:09It's the best of all, girls.
00:25:10Here we go.
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,
00:25:22or whatever it was, and put on my Hannah Montana get-up.
00:25:26So I did that from eighth grade to twelfth grade.
00:25:28I 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,
00:25:35whether it was the Walmart grand opening, or the grand opening of the convenience store down the road,
00:25:41or going to the nursing home and singing for my momma 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
00:25:52to watch the ballgames, and I was always busy playing music.
00:25:56And for me, that was like an easy choice.
00:25:58It wasn't about, like, the 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 cowgirl at the night?
00:26:14Come on, get 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.
00:26:31I am smart.
00:26:33I am smart.
00:26:34I can do anything.
00:26:35I can do anything.
00:26:36And I'm cowgirl of the night.
00:26:39And I'm cowgirl of the night.
00:26:41And I'm cowgirl of the night.
00:26:44I think it is so important to remind these little girls
00:26:48of 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 repeating these things out loud.
00:27:02I 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.
00:27:20It's like this night.
00:27:22It's gonna drive through the bus.
00:27:26Bust all trees in the gasoline.
00:27:29And that old highway holds your key.
00:27:33It's gonna love the darkness.
00:27:36And I'm just talking to you about me.
00:27:39And I'm just talking to you about me.
00:27:41And I'm just talking to you about me.
00:27:43But it's crazy.
00:27:45It's tough.
00:27:46It's crazy.
00:27:47Yeah!
00:27:48I'm just talking to you about me.
00:27:58Hello, hello!
00:27:59I'm just talking to you about you.
00:28:01You're kaikotui.
00:28:02I'm a-
00:28:03Okay!
00:28:04It's what you should say.
00:28:04And here we have to bump it down.
00:28:06Love the Minor of Yourself Mane.
00:28:06Let it all laugh in.
00:28:07It's a hot apocalypse to some earth.
00:28:11It's a goodorigine to some earth.
00:28:15I'm just talking to you about me.
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.
00:28:45She'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 to
00:28:59pursue 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.
00:29:40This 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.
00:30:03Orphel Massile.
00:30:04Here'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.
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.
00:31:11I 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.
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.
00:32:06What'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.
00:32:16It 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.
00:32:23That'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, 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.
00:33:37Yeah, I would, I used to go, I printed up a bunch of these and just put them in people's
00:33:42mailboxes.
00:33:43I'd, like, burn a bunch of CDs.
00:33:46And I'd walk up and down the music room and just see, like, who would, I mean, most people wouldn't
00:33:50answer the door.
00:33:51I had a few people saying the door in my face.
00:33:55But 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?
00:34:03Like, 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.
00:34:15Ooh, 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 the same way the Nolans worked really hard
00:34:27in a gutter in their rock band.
00:34:30The same way Sav worked really hard in the gutter in her band.
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.
00:35:00I 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, and that
00:35:16was 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, 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 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.
00:35:54Just stand up on my side, and she's so amazing.
00:35:59Lani was sitting down every day, all day, talking with radio people, and they switched to a new single, which
00:36:04was Things of Man or No.
00:36:06And yeah, I know, boy, I gave up and got it wrong.
00:36:12If you really love a woman, you don't let her go.
00:36:18I know if you're a man or a man or a man.
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.
00:36:39I asked Lani that night, you 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, oh, that'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 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, she's one of those
00:37:17people.
00:37:21So, like, this is our tracker with everything.
00:37:25All of our shows, all of our, like, shoots and announces and brands, PR, styling and wardrobe.
00:37:33We've got photo shoots.
00:37:35That gives me heart palpitations.
00:37:37No, it shouldn't.
00:37:39You 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, but, 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 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 where I'm talking about me, me, me, me, me, that
00:38:13I'm like, I can't imagine how some people feel.
00:38:15If they're just scrolling and they just say, me, me, me, me, me, like, I get nervous about that feeling.
00:38:20I get nervous about, is anybody going to still care in ten years?
00:38:23They should, but I more get fearful about, like, people's just, like, behavior and sort of vision 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 fast and 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.
00:38:58Now 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?
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 Hang Tight Honey that 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.
00:39:29Great.
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
00:39:46that 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 0.0009, like almost a tenth of a penny.
00:40:05Okay, 0.003 to 0.008 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, we 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.
00:40:43I sang a thousand names.
00:40:45How long was I singing?
00:40:46For 14 hours?
00:40:48So 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!
00:41:07By 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.
00:41:18But 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 equipment rides in.
00:41:28And just everything goes into a box, into a bigger box, into a bigger box.
00:41:32Yes, we'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.
00:41:48So that's nice.
00:41:50I wrote this song years ago.
00:41:55Probably like three years ago or more.
00:41:58And that Charlie Warshaw, who's played on some of my records, that I'm a big old fan of, recorded it.
00:42:08So I'm just going to go sing harmony.
00:42:10I'm half-assed drunk in a haunted house.
00:42:13Out of beer on the couch.
00:42:15Faking it a little too hard.
00:42:18But nobody tells you it's hard.
00:42:23Well, somebody let's go.
00:42:26Somebody holds on.
00:42:29You fall out of love.
00:42:32I like that.
00:42:33That was awesome.
00:42:33I like that.
00:42:35Somebody let's go.
00:42:37Well, 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.
00:42:46Somebody let's go.
00:42:47Somebody 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.
00:43:06No, they never do.
00:43:12Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:43:13Oh, oh, oh.
00:43:15That was awesome, though.
00:43:16I love how you did a little extra piece of gasp there.
00:43:19Do, do, do, do, do.
00:43:21Yeah.
00:43:21Just 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.
00:43:29I 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, 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
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.
00:44:06Oh, no.
00:44:07Here we go.
00:44:08Baby, don't waste your time on me.
00:44:12Yeah.
00:44:13I'm so damn-
00:44:14You can't remember what you did.
00:44:16There!
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 to kind of, like,
00:44:23give the woman's perspective, point of view, with that song.
00:44:28Hey, it's Reba.
00:44:29Miranda.
00:44:30And Laney.
00:44:30Our new song, Trailblazer, is out right now.
00:44:33Tap the link below to listen.
00:44:35Hey, 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?
00:44:47Let's get it.
00:44:47Groups 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 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.
00:45:48He's a 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 to have a talk.
00:45:57He is kind of a hard shell to crack at first.
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 got cookies for after?
00:46:38I think one of the things that makes our relationship so special is
00:46:43both of us worked really hard at young ages to reach this goal that really kind of seems
00:46:49impossible.
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, and I was starting
00:47:03to 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.
00:47:18Yes, you have.
00:47:19I've been home.
00:47:21You've been home probably three days in the past month.
00:47:23No, we, it'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.
00:47:47It definitely gets hard, but, again, it's a choice, and we choose each other every single
00:47:53time.
00:47:54I don't think that I would be able to navigate this life and a love life and everything with
00:48:03anybody else.
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
00:48:23real love is.
00:48:25It would be very difficult if I was, like, starting over right now and trying to find my
00:48:31person that, like, genuinely loved Lainey and not Lainey Wilson.
00:48:58I stockpiled my TikTok drafts this morning.
00:49:01Look 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, Lainey, Lainey, Lainey, Lainey, Lainey, Lainey, Lainey,
00:49:26Lainey, nice to meet y'all.
00:49:30How you doing, man?
00:49:31Stuart from behind.
00:49:32Lainey.
00:49:32Kim Kardashian got nothing on you, baby.
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 our big booties.
00:49:47Our big booties.
00:49:48Woo!
00:49:53That's not fair.
00:49:55My boot got a pistol.
00:49:57This morning I feel like I got a shot.
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.
00:50:22She 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, 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 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 the tone.
00:51:04I can't keep trying to keep up the tone.
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, oh, what's got to play?
00:51:19He must have gave me that dong for a reason.
00:51:41We're going to go up to the rooftop level in about 8.30.
00:51:45We're 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't 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.
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
00:52:20like had something to 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.
00:52:34And they learned how to play the song on a guitar.
00:52:36And the next fan might come through and say, like,
00:52:39I 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.
00:52:51And it's important for me to wrap my arms around them
00:52:56and 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
00:53:13and 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.
00:53:44But I really think there's something so special about these songs
00:53:47that it's not going to take as much press.
00:53:50I think it's just going to be like, these are some things that I wrote.
00:53:53Yep.
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.
00:54:02The songs that I'm writing right now
00:54:04are about the simple part of my life.
00:54:08Things that make me feel like the sister and daughter and friend
00:54:12and 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 song.
00:54:37Catfish Shack, feeding ducks on the water.
00:54:40Alabama son and a Lutie and a daughter.
00:54:42Summer he waved on, gave much hotter than a burn in that first kiss.
00:54:47Boy.
00:54:47Well, I do like hinting around to more of a wedding.
00:54:51I know we're saying it.
00:54:52I agree.
00:54:53But like, since we're going with the barred and blue,
00:54:55like, might as well 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, honey, move.
00:55:08Talk on a 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 back.
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 three.
00:55:34There 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.
00:55:45Talk on a ticker.
00:55:47I don't want to change.
00:55:4924 more of you loving on me.
00:55:51I skip Christmas and the 4th of July back.
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.
00:56:10I'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?
00:56:18So yesterday, 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.
00:56:33This is it.
00:56:35You ready?
00:56:35Woo!
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?
00:56:57Getting 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.
00:57:45It's a process.
00:57:45I 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 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, it's hard to have too many good looks.
00:58:17Good problem to have, though.
00:58:18That is a good problem to have.
00:58:24Shall I wear a white shirt?
00:58:25I wear this?
00:58:26Let's see.
00:58:27This is one on your head.
00:58:29What?
00:58:30Popping around like a diamond pole.
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
00:58:49Not going to let them cut you off and die
00:58:53You look like sunshine's coming at your ass.
00:58:57Very 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 got one more silver dollar
00:59:15Can we get some snacks in here?
00:59:18Are 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
00:59:24that I would get nominated for a Grammy in general.
00:59:27And the Grammy goes to Laini Wilson.
00:59:30When we won Country Album of the Year
00:59:32with Bell Bottom Country
00:59:33It felt great.
00:59:35It felt like, man, okay, now I'm being acknowledged
00:59:37by a wide variety of peers.
00:59:41Woo!
00:59:41We'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,
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, like,
01:00:04if we're in that position,
01:00:06what am I going to share that I've never shared?
01:00:11I try not to put too much value in winning awards.
01:00:15You know, I accept it with a grateful
01:00:17and open heart and open mind.
01:00:20But what you have today might not exist tomorrow.
01:00:23And so it's gotta be a healthy relationship
01:00:25I have with these awards.
01:00:27Because they can easily be taken away.
01:00:58And the Grammy goes to Cowboy Carter.
01:01:14The night's over.
01:01:16Oh, yeah, take 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 Beyonce.
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.
01:02:16What else did we need to do?
01:02:19Uh, Daniel said something about you signing stuff.
01:02:22Uh, when we sign up there, Mindy, uh, uh, let me ask Daniel.
01:02:32Daniel, I tell you what, I am sick as I don't.
01:02:35You want to try to, you want to try to get a nap, too, like a 30 minute nap.
01:02:40I mean, you didn't get my sleep.
01:02:43You sick all night.
01:02:45I thought it would be that may get you through the night.
01:02:51Of course, I'm going to have to stop the virus.
01:02:53That's all right.
01:02:55But I want to 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.
01:03:12Yeah.
01:03:13Yeah.
01:03:24We're going to come back.
01:03:28She don't look happy.
01:03:31Hey, Laney.
01:03:37We just had a wardrobe malfunction.
01:03:39What happened here?
01:03:40What happened?
01:03:42I 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 know what, borrow mine?
01:03:53Boo!
01:03:56Oh, 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 him brother.
01:04:28I think I am a introverted extrovert.
01:04:32Because at the end of the day, when I need to collect myself
01:04:38and get some more energy together, I need to be by myself.
01:04:43I love people, but in order for me to, like, fill my cup back up,
01:04:48I need to, like, lock it 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,
01:05:05and I feel like, at least if I'm, like, picking on myself,
01:05:09it's not going to hurt my feelings if 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, 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,
01:05:54you want to just take them all.
01:05:55And I guess a little bit of that was probably fear
01:05:58that they weren't always going to be there.
01:05:59I think it went good. I don't really know.
01:06:02About to just throw me out.
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
01:06:14and kissing everybody's babies,
01:06:17instead of...
01:06:19who I truly am.
01:06:21Are you feeling a little sick today, or...?
01:06:23Yeah.
01:06:24I got two IVs in the past 24 hours.
01:06:28I just feel tired.
01:06:29I feel like if I keep hammering it,
01:06:31I'm just gonna pack up myself in my life.
01:06:33Did you eat or won't eat?
01:06:34My mouth has cried.
01:06:36Woo!
01:06:37You good, honey?
01:06:37Yep.
01:06:38I'm so overstimulated.
01:06:39I'm just gonna sit here, like,
01:06:40and 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 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,
01:06:55and the anxiousness caused depression,
01:06:57and it's just like the depression caused more anxiousness,
01:07:00because I was like,
01:07:01why 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.
01:07:09Yeah.
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 from the airport, and...
01:07:24St. Louis Airport, I remember where I was,
01:07:25pushed 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.
01:07:34She was a solid panic attack for, like, multiple days.
01:07:39And I had played shows and everything
01:07:40while 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
01:07:51that you're always gonna be stuck in that mindset
01:07:55causes more anxiety,
01:07:56and then causes, it's just like a vicious cycle.
01:07:59I think it is important for me at times
01:08:01to show people that, like,
01:08:03I don't have my shit altogether.
01:08:05First of all, I was putting so much pressure on myself
01:08:07to get it right, to be right, to be perfect,
01:08:11show up, sing the damn song, look good doing it,
01:08:14all of these things,
01:08:15to where it just, like, kept piling stress on top of me.
01:08:21And I think once I realized
01:08:23that 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,
01:08:31I've found my place and I ain't going anywhere.
01:08:34I feel like now that I've, like,
01:08:35put my stake in the ground,
01:08:36it definitely takes some stress off.
01:09:02All the hardships that I've had,
01:09:04I feel like the words that I write
01:09:06are different because of that,
01:09:07and I feel like that's why I went through
01:09:10a lot of things that I did
01:09:12and that's why it took me as long as it did
01:09:13and all of those things
01:09:14is because I had not been through enough yet
01:09:16to tell the kind of stories
01:09:17that I was supposed to tell.
01:09:18I reached out to Reba probably about a year ago.
01:09:21I said, this is a loaded question,
01:09:23but what do you do when you feel like
01:09:25you 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?
01:09:47Y'all look at this sign right here.
01:10:15We all know that North Carolina
01:10:18and a lot of other states have been through a lot,
01:10:22even parts of Georgia in the past few weeks.
01:10:27And, man, I'm getting emotional.
01:10:31But I just want to say,
01:10:37I know a lot of y'all probably are feeling a heartbreak
01:10:39for your friends and your family.
01:10:42And 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.
01:10:49And that's what we're going to do.
01:10:53And we're going to have the time of our life.
01:10:55And I'm so thankful that y'all are here tonight.
01:11:00Any opportunity I get to make this
01:11:02about anything other than myself,
01:11:03I want to make it about other people.
01:11:05It makes my job a lot easier.
01:11:13Lainey, during that Atta Girl moment,
01:11:16a couple of songs before,
01:11:18this woman taps me.
01:11:20And she's like, Eric, Eric.
01:11:23And she's like, hey.
01:11:24I want to ask you, like,
01:11:25if you could try to get, like, a couple of photos
01:11:27of this daughter and this mom.
01:11:29This mom just found out that
01:11:31she has stage four cancer,
01:11:33and she doesn't have much longer to live,
01:11:35and so they're at this concert together.
01:11:37And who did you pick for Atta Girl?
01:11:40I'm like, are they still here?
01:11:41I'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,
01:11:45the cowgirl, that I still hear?
01:11:48Shit.
01:11:49Do you have a phone on her?
01:11:53Here, but this is the photo of the mom.
01:11:57What the hell can I say?
01:11:58It just kills me.
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,
01:12:11just kills me.
01:12:16Dude.
01:12:19Woo!
01:12:21Unreal.
01:12:24Yup.
01:12:29It's 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 them, like,
01:12:41she's not going to have a mama there to tell her
01:12:43that she's beautiful and smart and talented
01:12:44and all those things.
01:12:45It's just up.
01:12:49Food for you.
01:12:49They're coming up.
01:12:50The people or something?
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 every other way?
01:13:07Absolutely.
01:13:08Absolutely.
01:13:08Lord Jesus, I come to you right now, Father,
01:13:12and I just pray for peace,
01:13:14just 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
01:13:23in your loving arms, God.
01:13:24We love you.
01:13:25In your holy and precious name I pray.
01:13:27Amen.
01:13:27Amen.
01:13:39Dude.
01:13:41There's definitely random things like that here and there
01:13:44that, like, just put things into perspective.
01:13:48It's a reality check.
01:13:49It's a, like,
01:13:52I don't know how you get so wound up about
01:13:55the 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.
01:14:08When things like that happen,
01:14:10I 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.
01:14:36This is all a gift.
01:14:38it's about saving it.
01:14:45Are you kidding me?
01:14:53Are you kidding me?
01:14:56Are you kidding me?
01:14:58Are you kidding me?
01:14:59It's not about something.
01:15:01Oh, my God, for real, for 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.
01:15:14Yeah, 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.
01:15:29I 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, and he's the only one that would see
01:15:38it,
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, I'm like, why wouldn't I want to spend the rest of my life
01:15:54with my best friend
01:15:55and somebody who lifts me up and encourages me and 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 going to be, this was going to be a part of the
01:16:07making it 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.
01:16:25Surprise!
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 are you?
01:16:35Nice to meet you.
01:16:36Brian Wilson.
01:16:36You're special.
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.
01:16:42Every rodeo and monster truck.
01:16:46Yeah.
01:16:47Also, as a kid, this seemed a lot bigger than it actually is.
01:16:53You know what I'm saying?
01:16:54It's the same seats that's been in here the whole time I've been coming.
01:16:57Yeah.
01:16:57So everything's the same.
01:16:59Yeah.
01:16:59Everything'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, 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, but 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, no 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 it.
01:18:12I'm a wild, wild flower.
01:18:13Just get ready for the ticket.
01:18:15Ooh.
01:18:2231 years is a long time coming.
01:18:25Feet off the ground, but I'm a steer on.
01:18:28Ooh.
01:18:34I don't need a map.
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 wanna love me, you don't need a road.
01:18:44You just need a road.
01:18:49Good horses come home.
01:18:54I mean, the first line is, if 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 where I could see the wide open spaces,
01:19:03where I could dream, and that's what I felt like.
01:19:05Safe, but also, at the same time, I felt there was a big old world out there.
01:19:09You know?
01:19:12I knew I was gonna find somebody very special that was gonna be okay with 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!
01:19:25545, babe.
01:19:26What are we doing?
01:19:27Get these eggs retrieved.
01:19:30My hormones went up, down, backwards, and sideways.
01:19:34You've had a great attitude the whole time, baby.
01:19:36You have, too.
01:19:40On the road again, definitely doing that one.
01:19:44Oh, Willie.
01:19:46I'm gonna be able to be a wife, I'm gonna be able to be a mama,
01:19:49and I'm gonna be able to do this.
01:19:54I know it's not going to be easy, but I'm gonna do it.
01:20:05It's the first time you've ever seen me in a dress.
01:20:07Is that Kella? Is it Duras?
01:20:11You look cute little, uh...
01:20:13Cafeteria lady.
01:20:15Yeah.
01:20:32I know that I lead with love.
01:20:36It'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.
01:20:50Good horses come home.
01:20:58For one, two, three, one.
01:21:04I'm the kind to take the gaze.
01:21:07Don't sit in a shot, don't see.
01:21:10You won't do it.
01:21:12You won't do it.
01:21:14You won't do it.
01:21:17Amnotized by the white lines
01:21:19No hands in and two on this heart of mind
01:21:22There's no
01:21:26In a 4x4 Bayou, babe
01:21:30From the bayou to Kentucky
01:21:33City to the country
01:21:36From here in Timberton
01:21:38Boy, after a long day
01:21:42You know there ain't no wrong way
01:21:45Driving like crazy, crazy
01:21:48In a 4x4 Bayou
01:21:51Boy, after a long day
01:21:55You know there ain't no wrong way
01:21:58Driving like crazy, crazy
01:22:01In a 4x4 Bayou
01:22:07Yee!
01:22:18Well somebody's downtown
01:22:22Somebody's alone
01:22:24One's on a new high
01:22:27And one's just getting stoned
01:22:30Well, somebody lets go, somebody holds on
01:22:35You fall out of love, hearts break right in two
01:22:41You think they break evil, but they never do
01:23:00Somebody's blind, somebody's free
01:23:06Somebody's healing, but it sure ain't the weak
01:23:16They never do, they never do
01:23:46They never do, they never do
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