Lainey Wilson: A Trailblazer Looking To Help Others
Lainey Wilson is on top of her game in country music and now can consider herself a trailblazer who other acts in the future will look up to and follow when they have dreams of country superstardom.
When we chatted with Lainey recently, she told us that being a trailblazer was something she aspired to. She said, “That’s all I ever wanted was to do what people did for me. It does feel good to know that now, just even speaking on somebody’s behalf could make a big difference.”
She added, “A lot of my friends in this town, I have a lot of really incredibly talented female friends in this town who have been at it a long time. And they’re the kind of girls, too, who ain’t giving up. I surround myself with those kinds of people.”
Wilson concluded with a smile, “It’s good to know that I can speak on their behalf or maybe make a phone call or just sing their praises, because that’s what has helped me more than anything. When somebody just says your name to somebody else and says, ‘She’s hard-working,’ or ‘She’s kind,’ or ‘She’s talented.’ To me, that goes more than a lot of other things.”
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Lainey and Miranda Lambert have released their new duet, their first, a song they wrote together called “Good Horses.”
Both country queens grew up with horses and have ridden at competitions. To give a taste of their new song, Lainey and Miranda joined each other in a fancy horse barn with their guitars to sing some of it.
Wilson and Lambert double-posted the clip to their combined seven million followers on their respective Instagram accounts. They captioned the post, “Good horses come home.”
The song’s first verse includes the lyrics: “If there’s a green pasture, I wanna be in it / I’m a wild, wildflower just a-ready for the picking / Ooh Thirty-one years is a long time coming /Feet off the ground, but I’m a-still running.”
Lainey played in Las Vegas in December at The Theater at the Virgin Hotel. During the performance, Lainey surprised the crowd by bringing out what she called her “Ride or Die”: Miranda Lambert. The two sang Lambert’s big smash, “Kerosene.”
The superstars sang the new, never-before-heard-of duet that they wrote together. Lainey told the crowd, introducing it, “This song is so, so special, and you can hear her all over it. She helped me write the song, and I’m so proud of the song; we hope you love it.”
