“Hang Tight Honey”, it’s gonna be a party in Myrtle this June for the 10th Anniversary of Carolina Country Music Fest! Please welcome LAINEY WILSON to the Coors Light Main Stage.
Ever since LAINEY WILSON dropped her Grammy-winning album Bell Bottom Country in 2022, a storm of success has been raging all around her. There have been headlining tours and festival appearances, Entertainer of the Year trophies at both the CMA and ACM Awards, an induction into the Grand Ole Opry, and the expectations that come along with being country music’s undeniable new superstar. Instead of letting it send her spinning, however, Wilson held on tight and channeled the chaos into writing and recording a career statement album, the thrilling Whirlwind.
Like Waylon Jennings before her, Wilson insisted on using her road band to record the new songs in the studio. The result is a lively and spontaneous album with a distinct heartbeat. Wilson says she was in search of a specific “thump,” and you can sense the unspoken communication and camaraderie among the musicians over Whirlwind’s 14 tracks. “We all became a family on tour. In the studio, we knew we wanted to bring that same high-energy and connection of our live show to this album,” she says. “Whirlwind definitely wouldn’t be the same record if I didn’t have my band playing with me.” But Wilson also welcomed someone new into the fold: Miranda Lambert appears on “Good Horses,” as the first artist to collab on one of Wilson’s own songs. Co-written with
Lambert and Luke Dick, it’s an autobiographical tale of both the desire to roam and the magnetic pull back home to a partner. “Come a long way since I left Louisiana/my dreams tied on like a red bandana” Wilson sings.
One of the most famous parts of Wilson’s backstory is how she lived in a camper trailer in a parking lot in Nashville. While writing Whirlwind’s cinematic title track with “Heart Like a Truck” collaborators Anderson and Wilson, she serendipitously found herself once again in a trailer, this time in Oklahoma before a show. “Our green room for the day was a camper trailer,” Wilson laughs. “I wanted to write something with a Western vibe and sitting in that camper trailer resonated with where I was and where I am now in my life, which is running up and down the open road, but also having somebody at home that loves and cares about me.” Wilson explores the push and pull between freedom and putting down roots throughout Whirlwind. And while she doesn’t yet know which side might win out, she’s willing to go on the ride and share that journey with fans.
My job as a storyteller is to dive deeper every single time and not be scared to be vulnerable. Whirlwind is my promise that I’m going to continue doing that – Lainey Wilson
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