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Lainey Wilson Rides the ‘Whirlwind’ With New Album, Sold-Out Tour, Top Awards and ‘Yellowstone’ Return: ‘I Feel Like We’ve Got a Lot of Knife on Our Belts’
Lainey Wilson discusses her new album, 'Whirlwind,' singing with Mick Jagger and Miranda Lambert, a sold-out tour and returning to 'Yellowstone.'
Collaborations have factored into her rise (she shared top 5 hits with Jelly Roll, Hardy and Cole Swindell), but no outside assists are necessary when what audiences really buy into is just Wilson — a sweet-voiced cross between Miranda Lambert and Dolly Parton who’s as good-natured as she is gutsy, whose talk of horses and 4x4s somehow makes her more magnetic even to city slickers, and who has a hell of a good song sense. Variety caught up with Wilson by phone from an Iowa tour stop to discuss the new album, its Miranda Lambert collaboration, her ACMs and CMAs accolades and a fan club that includes Mick Jagger. And when you talk to people in the country industry, they are inclined to think, if they aren’t outrightly instructed, that that particular award belongs to somebody who is representing the genre by headlining arenas and has probably sold them out for years.
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