WEBVTT - Lainey Wilson 0:00:15.516 --> 0:00:22.196 Pushkin. At just eight years old, Landy Wilson announced to 0:00:22.236 --> 0:00:25.236 her family that she was destined to become a country 0:00:25.316 --> 0:00:28.236 music star. There were northern musicians in her family to 0:00:28.236 --> 0:00:31.396 speak of. For five generations, her people had been farmers 0:00:31.436 --> 0:00:34.076 in a tiny northern Louisiana town with a population of 0:00:34.116 --> 0:00:37.636 only one hundred and eighty. But after graduating in high school, 0:00:37.756 --> 0:00:40.236 Laney stayed true to her promise and drove north to 0:00:40.316 --> 0:00:42.916 Nashville in a camper trailer that she lived in alone 0:00:42.996 --> 0:00:47.396 for three years. Success didn't come easy. In those first 0:00:47.436 --> 0:00:50.036 three years, Lanny wrote over three hundred songs, and it 0:00:50.076 --> 0:00:52.676 wasn't until her eighth year that she finally signed a 0:00:52.676 --> 0:00:56.236 record deal. All that hard work paid off in twenty 0:00:56.276 --> 0:00:59.196 twenty one, when her debut single Things a Man Out 0:00:59.236 --> 0:01:03.116 of No raced up the country music charts. Several radio 0:01:03.156 --> 0:01:06.316 hits followed, and last year Lanny swept the award season, 0:01:06.516 --> 0:01:09.356 winning a ton of trophies, including the Grammy for Best 0:01:09.396 --> 0:01:11.916 Country Album and Entertainer of the Year at the Country 0:01:11.996 --> 0:01:15.716 Music Awards. In August, Laney scored her first crossover hit 0:01:15.756 --> 0:01:18.516 with the release of her latest album, Wharwind, which debuted 0:01:18.516 --> 0:01:20.756 at number three on the Billboard two hundred chart and 0:01:20.796 --> 0:01:24.876 became her highest selling album yet. On today's episode, Lea 0:01:24.996 --> 0:01:27.316 Rose talks to Laney Wilson about how her grit and 0:01:27.356 --> 0:01:32.436 determination developed into central pillars of her career. Laney also 0:01:32.436 --> 0:01:36.276 opens up about being physically objectified online and the reality 0:01:36.276 --> 0:01:38.956 of playing alongside some of her musical heroes like the 0:01:39.036 --> 0:01:45.716 Rolling Stones and Dolly Parton. This is Broken Record liner 0:01:45.756 --> 0:01:49.516 notes for the digital Age, I'm justin Ritchman. Here's Lea 0:01:49.596 --> 0:01:53.356 Rose's conversation with Laney Wilson. They recorded over zoom and 0:01:53.396 --> 0:01:55.876 to see the full video, you can visit YouTube dot 0:01:55.916 --> 0:01:58.276 com slash Broken Record Podcast. 0:01:59.556 --> 0:02:01.716 You're on tour right now, right like you're about to 0:02:01.756 --> 0:02:02.676 be out in California. 0:02:03.236 --> 0:02:05.916 I am smack dab in the middle of it. 0:02:05.996 --> 0:02:08.036 But I feel like we've been touring. We've been touring 0:02:08.076 --> 0:02:12.236 solid for for three years. I feel like the longest 0:02:12.276 --> 0:02:15.356 break of touring I had was I mean, it was 0:02:15.436 --> 0:02:17.476 during the pandemic, but other than that, I've really been 0:02:17.516 --> 0:02:18.516 touring since eighth grade. 0:02:19.356 --> 0:02:20.236 Oh my god. 0:02:20.636 --> 0:02:20.996 Yeah. 0:02:21.116 --> 0:02:25.076 So, so is it a thing where if you actually 0:02:25.116 --> 0:02:26.636 get a day at home, you're like, what do I 0:02:26.676 --> 0:02:29.036 do with myself? Or do you have plenty that you 0:02:29.076 --> 0:02:29.996 can do well. 0:02:30.036 --> 0:02:32.796 Today it felt so nice, first of all, just to 0:02:32.836 --> 0:02:35.436 wake up like at my house with my dogs, drink 0:02:35.516 --> 0:02:39.796 my coffee, and I had my hairdresser come over here 0:02:39.916 --> 0:02:43.596 and dye my hair. So thankfully I have found people 0:02:43.676 --> 0:02:46.556 to like to make my life a lot easier, you 0:02:46.556 --> 0:02:48.716 know what I'm saying, Like just little things like that. 0:02:48.876 --> 0:02:52.076 If it just gives me even two extra hours at 0:02:52.076 --> 0:02:53.876 my house, I take it. 0:02:54.556 --> 0:02:57.116 Can you just give us like a sample of like 0:02:57.236 --> 0:02:59.396 two days, Like what have the last two days in 0:02:59.436 --> 0:03:01.756 your life been? Like? What time are you waking up? 0:03:01.796 --> 0:03:03.516 What are you doing? What is your schedule? 0:03:03.676 --> 0:03:06.596 Like this past weekend. I'll just tell you this. 0:03:06.676 --> 0:03:08.036 I have to kind of like go back a little 0:03:08.036 --> 0:03:10.196 ways to tell you, Yeah, we had a show in 0:03:10.236 --> 0:03:13.436 Salt Lake City. From there, I went to Boise, Idaho, 0:03:13.596 --> 0:03:17.116 and then I went to Missoula, Montana. I flew back 0:03:17.196 --> 0:03:20.716 to Nashville through the night. I got back to Nashville 0:03:20.996 --> 0:03:25.836 at about four thirty in the morning, slept into I 0:03:25.836 --> 0:03:28.596 guess about like nine thirty so I could enjoy the day, 0:03:29.596 --> 0:03:31.836 hung out with my dogs, and. 0:03:32.476 --> 0:03:33.916 Actually I cooked supper. 0:03:36.236 --> 0:03:38.756 I will tell you that's not my it's not my thing, 0:03:39.036 --> 0:03:40.716 but I give it my best shot. 0:03:41.236 --> 0:03:41.996 What did you make? 0:03:42.676 --> 0:03:45.956 I made It's like an Asian stirfry. So I did 0:03:46.036 --> 0:03:50.116 just like rice and chicken and peppers and onions, and 0:03:50.796 --> 0:03:53.916 I made something that I have not made in probably 0:03:53.996 --> 0:03:54.956 like fifteen years. 0:03:54.956 --> 0:03:56.436 I used to make it when I was in college. 0:03:56.876 --> 0:04:03.836 But it's called ooey gooey buttercake. I was like, I'm 0:04:03.836 --> 0:04:06.716 gonna come home. I'm gonna feel good, I'm gonna eat healthy. 0:04:06.956 --> 0:04:09.956 And I was like, I'm gonna have some mooie butter cake. 0:04:11.396 --> 0:04:13.316 And do you have friends over? Are you? Just like 0:04:13.356 --> 0:04:15.356 I am so sick of being around other people. I 0:04:15.396 --> 0:04:16.916 just want to be alone with my dogs. 0:04:17.236 --> 0:04:21.676 My boyfriend was here last night to eat supper around 0:04:21.676 --> 0:04:23.196 the kitchen table, so that was good. 0:04:23.676 --> 0:04:26.556 But I will tell you, like, for me personally, I 0:04:26.596 --> 0:04:30.196 think I won't be a like a introverted extrovert because 0:04:30.236 --> 0:04:33.636 I love people. I love like being around people, and 0:04:33.716 --> 0:04:35.396 I think that I do get like a lot of 0:04:35.396 --> 0:04:38.516 my energy from other people. But I also know that 0:04:38.596 --> 0:04:43.396 like when I need to really like refill my cup, 0:04:43.996 --> 0:04:46.636 I had to be by myself. I just need to 0:04:46.796 --> 0:04:49.796 like be sitting on my couch or sitting in my 0:04:49.836 --> 0:04:52.756 front yard with my feet in the grass, feel in 0:04:52.756 --> 0:04:55.716 the sun and wind on my face, and then I 0:04:55.716 --> 0:04:56.956 feel like I can go back. 0:04:56.836 --> 0:04:59.876 Out and do it again. But I'm realizing, like the 0:05:00.156 --> 0:05:00.996 deeper I get. 0:05:00.836 --> 0:05:05.076 Into this job, how important it truly is to make 0:05:05.116 --> 0:05:08.236 sure that not even feeling your cup halfway, I mean, 0:05:08.236 --> 0:05:10.396 you got to feel it to the so you can 0:05:10.436 --> 0:05:13.036 go out and just keep born out, poorn out, porn out. 0:05:13.716 --> 0:05:15.956 Because I love my job, but I always want to 0:05:15.956 --> 0:05:19.156 make sure that I'm the very best version of myself 0:05:19.236 --> 0:05:22.796 that I can possibly because. 0:05:21.596 --> 0:05:23.316 I don't want I don't want folks to get the 0:05:23.716 --> 0:05:24.476 shit version. 0:05:24.756 --> 0:05:28.076 You know, I appreciate that about you, Like I feel 0:05:28.076 --> 0:05:30.396 like you really get it. Like especially when I was 0:05:30.396 --> 0:05:33.436 preparing for this interview, I sat down one day and 0:05:33.476 --> 0:05:37.596 I watched six hours straight of interviews with you, and 0:05:37.636 --> 0:05:41.436 I'm like, this woman is such a hustler. And some 0:05:41.516 --> 0:05:44.036 of the interviews and they're not like red carpet interviews, 0:05:44.036 --> 0:05:48.876 they're like, sit down, deep, hour plus long interviews, and 0:05:48.916 --> 0:05:50.956 I'm like, this poor woman, Like sometimes you're wearing the 0:05:50.996 --> 0:05:54.756 same outfit, yeah she is, but you show up in 0:05:54.916 --> 0:05:57.796 every interview and you you really get it. And I 0:05:57.836 --> 0:06:01.316 appreciate that from you know, from my point of view, Thankee, 0:06:01.636 --> 0:06:03.516 How do you I know that I heard you say 0:06:03.556 --> 0:06:07.836 that you really soak up people's energy, like you're an EmPATH. 0:06:08.716 --> 0:06:11.636 What have you learned to like put up some sort 0:06:11.636 --> 0:06:12.996 of wall to protect yourself. 0:06:13.316 --> 0:06:16.116 Oh my gosh, it's so funny that we're talking about 0:06:16.156 --> 0:06:19.116 this because I just had this conversation with a few 0:06:19.156 --> 0:06:21.516 of my best friends. They came out on the road 0:06:21.556 --> 0:06:25.076 this past weekend and we wrote music together, and for me, 0:06:25.156 --> 0:06:28.756 that's just therapy. It's that's not work to me, you know, 0:06:28.796 --> 0:06:32.036 as a songwriter before as an artist. So I was 0:06:32.076 --> 0:06:35.996 telling them, I was just like, it is so endearing. 0:06:36.956 --> 0:06:38.836 You know, when people even come through my meet and 0:06:38.876 --> 0:06:42.276 greet line, they feel like they can tell me anything. 0:06:42.876 --> 0:06:46.716 And I appreciate that, Like it's it's very cool to 0:06:46.756 --> 0:06:50.116 be able to like to be that person and have them, 0:06:50.276 --> 0:06:52.316 you know, feel like that they have connected with my 0:06:52.396 --> 0:06:55.236 music so much that they know me, and truthfully, when 0:06:55.276 --> 0:06:56.116 I meet them, I. 0:06:56.036 --> 0:06:59.116 Feel like I know them too. It's like a it's 0:06:59.156 --> 0:07:02.596 an energy exchange. It's what it is, yep. But it's 0:07:02.676 --> 0:07:03.796 it's strange because I. 0:07:03.756 --> 0:07:06.796 Mean, in a meet and greet, it'll be like very 0:07:06.836 --> 0:07:12.036 short increments of like one person will be getting engaged 0:07:12.196 --> 0:07:12.916 in front of. 0:07:12.796 --> 0:07:17.596 Me, and I've been like the happiest moment of their life. 0:07:17.636 --> 0:07:19.516 And then the. 0:07:19.196 --> 0:07:22.076 Next person that comes through might be telling me a 0:07:22.116 --> 0:07:26.636 really tragic story and telling me how their music stopped 0:07:26.636 --> 0:07:29.716 them from doing something or like you know, help them 0:07:29.796 --> 0:07:32.036 kind of pull themselves back up by the bootstraps. 0:07:32.076 --> 0:07:35.756 And but I will tell you after moments like that 0:07:35.916 --> 0:07:37.316 because I can't help but feel it. 0:07:37.356 --> 0:07:40.076 I'm just that person, like yeah, like you said, it's 0:07:40.156 --> 0:07:43.076 just I am a very empathetic person. And I think 0:07:43.156 --> 0:07:47.996 because of that, it's made me a better storyteller, yes, 0:07:48.156 --> 0:07:51.276 like a better songwriter and really just a better person. 0:07:51.676 --> 0:07:53.556 I feel like I'm able to kind of put myself 0:07:53.716 --> 0:07:54.156 into a. 0:07:54.076 --> 0:07:56.916 Lot of other people's shoes and write the kind of 0:07:56.956 --> 0:08:00.156 music that I'm supposed to connect with my audience. But 0:08:01.316 --> 0:08:03.316 when I get out of those meet and greets, there's 0:08:03.316 --> 0:08:06.996 been times where I have to literally physically like wash 0:08:07.036 --> 0:08:10.116 my hands, like it all me and be like, Okay, 0:08:10.196 --> 0:08:13.516 you know what, thank you Lord for like for giving 0:08:13.516 --> 0:08:15.916 me the opportunity to like take on some of these 0:08:15.956 --> 0:08:19.156 people's burdens. But I gotta lay it right here. I 0:08:19.236 --> 0:08:22.116 can't carry this into the show. I can't carry it 0:08:22.116 --> 0:08:24.516 into my day tomorrow. I gotta get up and I 0:08:24.516 --> 0:08:27.236 got to do my job again and be the very 0:08:27.236 --> 0:08:28.836 best version of myself that I can be. 0:08:29.996 --> 0:08:31.836 Have you talked to other artists, like I know you 0:08:31.916 --> 0:08:36.476 and Miranda Lambert are close friends. Does she have that 0:08:36.516 --> 0:08:39.516 same experience? Do you think that's an experience that's just 0:08:39.596 --> 0:08:43.756 sort of like singular for you or do your other 0:08:43.876 --> 0:08:46.436 artist friends have that same thing where people are just 0:08:46.476 --> 0:08:48.596 like pouring their heart out to you and telling you 0:08:48.676 --> 0:08:50.956 these like really emotional experiences. 0:08:51.756 --> 0:08:54.876 All of my brands in the business, I feel like 0:08:55.556 --> 0:08:59.516 go through the same thing to like something some like extent. 0:09:00.316 --> 0:09:04.036 If I'm remembering correctly, it might be Miranda that told 0:09:04.076 --> 0:09:07.956 me she does meet and greets after her show. So 0:09:09.196 --> 0:09:12.196 if something does kind of like to take her out 0:09:12.196 --> 0:09:14.236 of you know, get her mind out of the game 0:09:14.356 --> 0:09:15.916 or something like that, I think that was her. 0:09:16.436 --> 0:09:18.196 Oh so you do years before the show. 0:09:18.436 --> 0:09:19.716 I do mine before the show. 0:09:20.276 --> 0:09:21.236 That seems tough. 0:09:21.556 --> 0:09:23.196 I do, And then and then I take a minute 0:09:23.316 --> 0:09:25.956 just to like go back on the bus, do a 0:09:26.036 --> 0:09:29.356 vocal warm up, getting his own and really it's just 0:09:29.396 --> 0:09:32.436 about remembering that this ain't got nothing to do with me. 0:09:33.036 --> 0:09:37.236 It's a lot bigger than that, And I don't know. 0:09:37.276 --> 0:09:39.516 I guess like maybe that thought a long time ago 0:09:40.076 --> 0:09:43.236 felt like scary and maybe kind of made me feel 0:09:43.276 --> 0:09:45.596 a little bit like out of control or whatever. But 0:09:45.716 --> 0:09:47.796 there's a lot of freedom that comes along with that thought. 0:09:47.916 --> 0:09:50.876 It's just like all I gotta do is get up 0:09:50.876 --> 0:09:54.756 here and tell these stories and recognize and realize that 0:09:55.876 --> 0:09:57.636 it's just for like a bigger purpose. 0:09:58.436 --> 0:10:01.156 Do you feel like you're like a vessel? I've heard 0:10:01.196 --> 0:10:02.756 you say you feel like you have a calling? 0:10:03.156 --> 0:10:04.036 Yep, I do. 0:10:04.196 --> 0:10:06.556 But do you feel like you're a vessel for a message? 0:10:06.636 --> 0:10:08.476 How does that work in your mind? Where does it 0:10:08.516 --> 0:10:08.956 come from? 0:10:09.596 --> 0:10:12.156 Yeah? I really do feel like I am. I feel like. 0:10:13.676 --> 0:10:18.156 It's so strange the stories that I tell, and like 0:10:18.956 --> 0:10:21.876 even the collaborations that I've done with other artists, like 0:10:21.916 --> 0:10:23.876 I got to do a song with Harty called Waiting 0:10:23.916 --> 0:10:27.356 the Truck, and it's talking about something that a lot 0:10:27.396 --> 0:10:29.996 of people don't want to talk about about domestic abuse, 0:10:30.076 --> 0:10:32.676 and that kind of stuff happens behind closed doors a 0:10:32.676 --> 0:10:34.356 lot more than we'd like to admit. 0:10:35.076 --> 0:10:39.676 But that specific situation has never happened to me. 0:10:40.716 --> 0:10:45.076 But I still feel like, I'm very blessed to be 0:10:45.196 --> 0:10:48.596 able to speak for the people that maybe feel like 0:10:48.636 --> 0:10:49.796 they've never been spoken for. 0:10:50.996 --> 0:10:52.476 And I don't take that lightly. 0:10:52.716 --> 0:10:59.316 I'll tell you that, Yeah, how is your relationship to spirituality, religion, 0:10:59.596 --> 0:11:03.356 or God changed? Since you're in a position now where 0:11:03.396 --> 0:11:06.556 you've had a lot of success and this was sort 0:11:06.556 --> 0:11:09.316 of something that you always knew you were destined and 0:11:09.356 --> 0:11:15.316 for has your perception or your relationship with a higher 0:11:15.356 --> 0:11:16.236 power changed. 0:11:17.356 --> 0:11:20.036 It's definitely grown. I will tell you that. I mean, 0:11:20.236 --> 0:11:22.996 I grew up we want a church. Me and my parents, 0:11:23.076 --> 0:11:26.916 we went to basking Baptist Church in my hometown. 0:11:27.036 --> 0:11:29.076 I'm from a town of one hundred and eighty people, 0:11:29.556 --> 0:11:32.676 and so pretty much I think one hundred and fifty 0:11:32.716 --> 0:11:35.436 people went to that church. It was like that the 0:11:35.476 --> 0:11:39.156 town just met up every Sunday. That's pretty much, you know. Wow. 0:11:39.396 --> 0:11:43.076 And so I've always been a believer, always like had 0:11:43.196 --> 0:11:46.676 a relationship, I guess you could say. But it's so 0:11:46.876 --> 0:11:50.876 interesting because I feel like and maybe it's just you know, 0:11:50.996 --> 0:11:52.116 comes with like maturing. 0:11:52.276 --> 0:11:56.956 But I feel like, especially over the past couple of years. 0:11:56.636 --> 0:11:58.956 Like the places that I have gotten to go and 0:11:58.996 --> 0:12:01.236 the people that I have gotten to meet, and the 0:12:01.316 --> 0:12:04.356 experiences that I've been able to have, I've realized that 0:12:05.436 --> 0:12:07.636 we're all actually a lot more like than you think, 0:12:08.236 --> 0:12:11.316 and that gives me a lot of peace. But it 0:12:11.356 --> 0:12:15.996 also gives me like a different view of life in 0:12:16.036 --> 0:12:18.956 the world. And I know for a fact that, like 0:12:19.956 --> 0:12:22.116 when I was a little girl, you know, I knew 0:12:22.116 --> 0:12:25.476 I wanted to do this. I knew that, Like I 0:12:25.516 --> 0:12:27.356 had a weird sense of peace about knowing that this 0:12:27.396 --> 0:12:31.036 is what I was supposed to do, and that feeling 0:12:31.036 --> 0:12:34.756 has never gone away, that feeling of like I really 0:12:34.756 --> 0:12:39.276 do think that I was created to do this, but 0:12:39.396 --> 0:12:41.756 not just do this like I was created to be 0:12:42.076 --> 0:12:44.716 my sister sister, you know, I was like, like, I 0:12:44.756 --> 0:12:46.756 feel like I have a lot of different purposes and 0:12:46.836 --> 0:12:50.916 I feel like all of those things, I guess just 0:12:50.996 --> 0:12:54.436 like remind me that it's just it's. 0:12:54.276 --> 0:12:57.436 Just bigger than all of us. It is. But that's 0:12:57.476 --> 0:12:58.156 what I'm learning. 0:12:58.756 --> 0:13:02.956 And my relationship continues to grow and change, and I 0:13:02.996 --> 0:13:04.716 think for a while, maybe I feel like I needed 0:13:04.716 --> 0:13:06.756 to put more like pressure on it than it needed 0:13:06.756 --> 0:13:10.276 to be. But for me, where I can go and 0:13:11.276 --> 0:13:13.156 just turn it off for a minute. 0:13:12.956 --> 0:13:16.116 You know, growing up, would you say that your parents 0:13:16.116 --> 0:13:18.276 were surprised that you were so driven at such a 0:13:18.316 --> 0:13:21.036 young age, Like, did they also have a feeling about 0:13:21.076 --> 0:13:23.956 you that you were destined to be an entertainer, a songwriter, 0:13:24.436 --> 0:13:27.796 a performer, a singer. Did they see that in you 0:13:27.876 --> 0:13:30.716 as well, or was that just solely coming from you? 0:13:32.236 --> 0:13:35.556 I said when I was about nine years old, and 0:13:35.596 --> 0:13:37.156 it was actually the first time my parents told me 0:13:37.316 --> 0:13:38.556 to Nashville. 0:13:38.716 --> 0:13:40.636 We were driving back home to lose Inna. 0:13:40.716 --> 0:13:44.956 We had been to Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge and been 0:13:44.996 --> 0:13:49.676 to Dollywood, and I just had the time of my life. 0:13:49.916 --> 0:13:51.876 And what do you remember about Dollywood? 0:13:52.196 --> 0:13:55.716 Oh my gosh, Like I loved Dolly before, but when 0:13:55.756 --> 0:13:57.796 I left there, I was like, I don't think I 0:13:57.796 --> 0:13:59.996 can love this woman anymore. I mean, it was just 0:14:00.036 --> 0:14:04.356 the happiest place on earth, you know. And it's really 0:14:04.356 --> 0:14:06.916 crazy how much that woman has taught me before I 0:14:06.996 --> 0:14:11.036 ever even knew her, Like knowing her now and getting 0:14:11.076 --> 0:14:14.996 to call her a friend and a mentor. It's crazy 0:14:15.036 --> 0:14:17.476 how much wisdom that she just has like pouring out 0:14:17.476 --> 0:14:21.396 of her all the time. But I remember driving through 0:14:21.476 --> 0:14:23.876 Nashville and I told my parents we were on I 0:14:24.036 --> 0:14:27.356 forty and I remember exactly where I was when I 0:14:27.436 --> 0:14:29.196 told them, I said, this is home, and I knew 0:14:29.236 --> 0:14:32.156 that I was supposed to be in Nashville even at 0:14:32.156 --> 0:14:35.436 that age, And thankfully my parents listened to me. 0:14:36.196 --> 0:14:37.996 I don't know, I think you know. 0:14:38.036 --> 0:14:40.876 Probably a lot of parents they might hear their kids 0:14:40.916 --> 0:14:42.836 say I want to be an astronaut or I don't 0:14:42.876 --> 0:14:46.636 want to be president or whatever, but like, my parents 0:14:46.876 --> 0:14:50.076 took me for real. They were like, Okay, well, let's 0:14:50.156 --> 0:14:50.916 figure out what. 0:14:50.796 --> 0:14:53.036 We can do to help her do that. 0:14:53.436 --> 0:14:57.836 You know, nobody in my area had dreams of doing 0:14:57.836 --> 0:15:01.036 stuff like this except for this one guy named Jerry 0:15:01.116 --> 0:15:04.956 Kupett back in the seventies. He's from basking and he 0:15:05.076 --> 0:15:07.316 was kind of like family to us, but not really, 0:15:07.436 --> 0:15:10.516 but like he was married to some at one point. 0:15:10.156 --> 0:15:14.356 That we were kin to. And that's some Louisyanna stuff 0:15:14.436 --> 0:15:14.796 right there. 0:15:14.916 --> 0:15:20.796 But he had a dream of moving to Nashville and 0:15:20.876 --> 0:15:25.236 being a producer, songwriter. And my grandfather, so my daddy's 0:15:25.276 --> 0:15:30.876 daddy just loved music, loved supporting music, was not musical himself, 0:15:31.476 --> 0:15:35.556 but had just like this, this feeling that he needed 0:15:35.596 --> 0:15:39.116 to help Jerry cupid. So he gave him a little 0:15:39.116 --> 0:15:40.756 bit of money to help him move to Nashville and 0:15:40.836 --> 0:15:44.756 get started, and as a favor in return, Jerry Cupid 0:15:44.876 --> 0:15:47.036 let me live in his studio parking lot in my 0:15:47.076 --> 0:15:49.236 camper trailer for the first three years that I was 0:15:49.276 --> 0:15:52.396 in Nashville. And so I think it goes back even 0:15:52.436 --> 0:15:58.756 before my parents. Yeah, it's just like my grandfather. He 0:15:58.796 --> 0:16:02.756 died when I was eleven years old. But oh wow, 0:16:03.356 --> 0:16:05.716 so he hadn't even been around to see any of this. 0:16:05.916 --> 0:16:08.276 But it's so crazy, like what you do in this 0:16:08.356 --> 0:16:11.676 lifetime can affect your people generations from now. 0:16:12.116 --> 0:16:13.156 And it isn't that crazy. 0:16:13.316 --> 0:16:13.796 I see that. 0:16:14.916 --> 0:16:17.116 Were you the type of kid who was constantly singing 0:16:17.236 --> 0:16:19.916 and performing and getting up in front of the family. 0:16:19.716 --> 0:16:23.036 And I'm not proud of it. 0:16:23.876 --> 0:16:26.276 Yeah, and I was probably breaking out in song and 0:16:26.396 --> 0:16:30.556 dance when it wasn't even appropriate. But yeah, my parents 0:16:30.556 --> 0:16:33.196 in the middle of Walmart, they'd be like, Laney, sing 0:16:33.236 --> 0:16:35.276 them that song that you wrote last week, and I 0:16:35.396 --> 0:16:38.676 was singing about the Quelan cigarettes and like it was. 0:16:39.596 --> 0:16:42.756 It became a part of me. It was like they said, hey, 0:16:42.756 --> 0:16:44.716 mon dance and I do it because I wanted to 0:16:44.796 --> 0:16:47.036 and they knew that. Like I loved it. 0:16:47.156 --> 0:16:49.916 I loved it so much and my parents' day even 0:16:49.956 --> 0:16:52.036 as a little girl, if they found out about a 0:16:52.036 --> 0:16:55.316 talent show that was happening or anything like that. Of course, 0:16:55.316 --> 0:16:58.396 they never forced me to do anything. I was knocking 0:16:58.476 --> 0:17:00.836 on the door saying I want to do this and that, 0:17:00.956 --> 0:17:04.276 and my mama would sign me up and my daddy 0:17:04.276 --> 0:17:05.796 would figure out how to get us there. 0:17:06.636 --> 0:17:07.236 Would you win? 0:17:07.436 --> 0:17:07.516 Like? 0:17:07.556 --> 0:17:08.956 Were you good? 0:17:09.716 --> 0:17:10.756 Every time? 0:17:11.876 --> 0:17:15.596 Every time I'm talking about homey Cook, Talent Search, Country, 0:17:15.676 --> 0:17:17.196 Colgate Showdown, you name it. 0:17:17.276 --> 0:17:18.836 If I was in it, I was gonna win it. 0:17:20.316 --> 0:17:22.996 Wow, what were you singing? Were you singing original stuff? 0:17:23.116 --> 0:17:24.076 Or you were doing covers? 0:17:24.476 --> 0:17:27.356 Sometimes it was it was originals. 0:17:27.436 --> 0:17:29.556 But I remember trying to sing a lot of like 0:17:29.916 --> 0:17:34.076 Martina McBride songs and hit those high notes and it 0:17:34.116 --> 0:17:36.756 was just kind of like a challenge for me. And huh, 0:17:36.836 --> 0:17:39.876 the truth is, like I did not have any business 0:17:39.916 --> 0:17:44.876 singing a Martina McBride song. But and too, like I 0:17:44.916 --> 0:17:47.756 say that I won these competitions, I think it was 0:17:47.836 --> 0:17:50.436 just because it wasn't that I was the best singer. 0:17:51.236 --> 0:17:54.116 It wasn't that like that I was the most seasoned. 0:17:54.116 --> 0:17:56.596 Because I was doing these competitions with people who were 0:17:56.916 --> 0:17:58.796 twice my age and everything like that. 0:17:58.996 --> 0:18:01.636 But I think they probably saw how bad I wanted. 0:18:01.396 --> 0:18:03.476 It, saw the drive early on. 0:18:03.756 --> 0:18:05.876 They didn't where do you get. 0:18:05.676 --> 0:18:08.036 That drive from? Is that also something that you can 0:18:08.076 --> 0:18:10.836 see in your family life or is that feel like 0:18:10.876 --> 0:18:12.236 it's just kind of your thing? 0:18:12.876 --> 0:18:15.156 It's in my family. It can be a blessing and 0:18:15.196 --> 0:18:15.636 a curse. 0:18:16.636 --> 0:18:19.516 I'll tell you that it uh, but at least I'm 0:18:19.556 --> 0:18:22.556 aware of that, you know, at least I'm here of that. 0:18:23.436 --> 0:18:25.676 Like it comes from both sides of my family. But 0:18:26.716 --> 0:18:31.956 my daddy has always had like four or five jobs farmer, brinker, horsetrader, 0:18:32.436 --> 0:18:36.156 He had a dirt haul and business like buying equipment, 0:18:36.276 --> 0:18:39.036 selling it, like anything that he could possibly do, just 0:18:39.076 --> 0:18:43.276 to give us something that his family couldn't give him 0:18:44.076 --> 0:18:46.796 m hm. And he would always just remind us, like, 0:18:47.276 --> 0:18:49.076 it's so funny because it kind of goes back to 0:18:50.516 --> 0:18:51.916 like playing a show like this. 0:18:51.836 --> 0:18:53.876 Has nothing to do with me. It has something to 0:18:53.876 --> 0:18:56.196 do with them and everything to do with them. He 0:18:56.196 --> 0:18:58.916 would remind us of that. He's like, this ain't got 0:18:58.996 --> 0:18:59.676 nothing to do with me. 0:18:59.836 --> 0:19:01.916 This has got to do with like your kids and 0:19:01.956 --> 0:19:05.956 their kids and their kids. And he just plant those seeds, 0:19:06.156 --> 0:19:10.116 and and my mama. 0:19:09.476 --> 0:19:10.556 Is a go getter. 0:19:11.356 --> 0:19:14.396 She gives one hundred and ninety percent with everything she does, 0:19:14.516 --> 0:19:17.156 like it don't matter what it was like even if 0:19:17.156 --> 0:19:20.476 we were having a rummage sell, she would just go 0:19:20.556 --> 0:19:23.116 all out and like and just give it her best shot. 0:19:23.196 --> 0:19:24.356 So I got a double whammy of that. 0:19:25.676 --> 0:19:28.876 How many generations back to your family, how many generations 0:19:28.916 --> 0:19:29.876 lived in Louisiana. 0:19:30.436 --> 0:19:35.596 I believe it was five Basking, I think was five generations. 0:19:35.636 --> 0:19:37.276 Wow, like farming. 0:19:38.316 --> 0:19:40.356 So they know the Wilsons. The Wilson's like a big 0:19:40.436 --> 0:19:41.316 name in Baskin. 0:19:41.836 --> 0:19:44.716 Yeah, I mean there's not many names in Baskin, but 0:19:44.716 --> 0:19:48.516 but they definitely know the Wilsons. They definitely know the Wilsons. 0:19:48.556 --> 0:19:51.316 And we're proud of We're proud of where we come 0:19:51.356 --> 0:19:52.116 from for sure. 0:19:53.076 --> 0:19:56.196 And Duck Dynasty was filmed like the town over right. 0:19:56.396 --> 0:20:01.596 Yeah, so Duck Dynasty was filmed in pretty much the town. 0:20:01.596 --> 0:20:06.676 I went to college in so West Monroe, Monroe, and 0:20:06.796 --> 0:20:09.996 my sister lives in that area right now. 0:20:10.076 --> 0:20:13.076 So it's not many people leave. 0:20:13.156 --> 0:20:15.796 Not many people leave Basketing. Like if you're from Basking, 0:20:16.596 --> 0:20:20.196 you'll stay in Basking. It's kind of random that, like 0:20:20.236 --> 0:20:23.276