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Lainey Wilson Talks ‘Laredo,’ the Kind of Familiar New Song That Comes Along ‘Once in a Lullaby’
Lainey Wilson's "Somewhere Over Laredo" is featured in this week's Makin' Tracks column.
Indeed, Lainey Wilson is flying high above Texas in her current single, “Somewhere Over Laredo,” playing off the most iconic melodic interval in the best-known song from The Wizard of Oz, the Judy Garland movie that spawned the “Kansas” dialogue. Traveling over Laredo stirred memories of a rodeo cowboy from the character’s past — the writers cast the couple as “Lone Star-crossed lovers” — and the chorus embraced the woman’s honky-tonk path in the setup line, deftly referencing Alan Jackson in her “chasin’ this neon rainbow” wordplay. “Laredo” is one of five new tracks planned for the deluxe version of her Whirlwind album, due Aug. 22, and Broken Bow released it to radio via PlayMPE on May 22, employing subtle scarecrow imagery in the accompany artwork.
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