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Lainey Wilson Talks Creating New Album ‘Whirlwind’ Amid Chaos: ‘We Had to Cut the S–t’
Lainey Wilson talks creating her new album 'Whirlwind,' follow-up to her award-winning 'Bell Bottom Country' LP.
Wilson, the reigning CMA Awards entertainer of the year, describes Whirlwind as “the Western sister of Bell Bottom Country,” and lyrically more “introspective” than previous efforts: “I feel like it’s got a little bit more character [and] cinematic storytelling.” Wilson teamed again with producer Jay Joyce, who produced Bell Bottom Country and its predecessor, 2021’s Sayin’ What I’m Thinkin’. “I thought that maybe it was going to because I was like, ‘Oh, shoot, we’re winning these awards and is it going to really freak me out when I get ready to make this next batch of music?’ I think it’s just because I’ve accepted it, but I don’t let it define me as an artist,” she says. In a sign of Wilson’s increasing clout, her road band plays on Whirlwind instead of the cast of studio musicians who typically appear on country albums.
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