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Lainey Wilson Continues to Dominate Country Music · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Listen. Listen. First of all, I don't even know how much time
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  we have with you, so it's fine. Uh let me tell you as
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  special as that moment like, we have been nominated and lost the last uh
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  two Cmas and the last two ACM shows in the radio categories, So to
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  win and to have somebody who we think extremely highly would be the person to
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  call and tell us made that even more special than I already was. So
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  thank you for sharing that moment with us. I'm so glad that I was
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  the one that was able to call. Oh my gosh, we cry emotional.
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  Yeah, we cried so hard. Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna text
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  you the video because as soon as we got off you, I'm talking like
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  I love it ugly crime. Listen. First of all, we haven't caught
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  up in a while. How does Lady Will go from we talked a whole
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  ten Yere town. How does Landy Wilson in a handful of years go from
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  I think I've heard of her before too. You can't go through a TV
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  station or through a radio station and not know who you are. Now,
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  that is crazy, it does. It seems like kind of overnight and I
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  think for some folks, they probably do think it is overnight. But August
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  of this year was mark twelve years for me of being in this town.
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  And the truth is that the work didn't start for me when I moved here.
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  It started at nine years old and I'm thirty one. How are you
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  feeling about success? Like have you gotten used to it yet? Or no?
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  Oh, I'm getting used to it. I could get really used to
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  success. It's a lot better than the other. No, it does feel
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  good, and I will say as much as of a whirlwind as it's been,
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  because it has been a crazy, crazy two years. I do feel
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  like I'm right where I'm supposed to be, and I feel like there's more
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  with that from kind of thing. I'm like, I'm ready. I'm tired,
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  but I'm ready. How do you keep yourself a priority? Because I
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  know you've talked about, you know, staying healthy recently and taking care of
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  yourself. How do you find time to perfect example, already share details today
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  like Hey, I just got to step away for a little bit. How
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  how do you keep yourself a priority? You have to carve out the time
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  period it has to be on your calendar. You can't just be like like
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  I've got a day off, you know, here or whatever. Like,
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  you have to be very aware of it, very conscious of it. Any
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  opportunity I have to call my family, call my sister, call my nephews,
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  have them facetiming and humble me real quick, you know, like anything
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  I can do like that that makes me feel like me without the world watching,
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  you know. I mean, even if that means going for a ride
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  on on my land that I just got here in Nashville and going out in
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  the woods and getting eat up by chiggers, like you, just find the
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  time and do it. Listen. I took my son four wheeling over the
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  weekend and I'm still scratching my legs. So I feel you on that.
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  Dude. If you see me down here scratching my knees, you know what's
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  going on? Well, you see you just you just purchased some land.
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  What's that lake? Are we talking a farm of rants or just you know
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  you're gonna figure it out later. It does have a pasture. I don't
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  have any horses on it yet. Yeah, I got me some some acres
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  and I'm loving it. I Mean, I'm not there a whole lot,
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  but it is. It is cool. Knowing that it's still here even if
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  I'm not. You know, listen, if this radio thing goes belly up,
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  I'm just gonna I can like mow the lawn or something like that.
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  You just holler at me, all right, come on, we're gonna get
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  you training the horses. You don't want that either. A guy that's as
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  big as a horse wouldn't be riding one. I'm just saying, whatever,
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  Uh, the success you've had and we talk, it's not anything that's like
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  easily easy to get used to. But when it comes to a number one
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  song, I'd imagine there was a day You're like, I'll take top one
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  hundred. I don't even need one. Just give me in the top one
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  hundred, dude. This is this is actually really funny, but uh,
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  with things a man ought to know. When we charted, I called my
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  friend Dallas Wilson and I said I charted, and he thought, I said
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  I charted, and he was like, you want I said, I charted.
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  I charted, And then he called his sister. It was like a
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  game of telephone. He said, Laney charted, and she said she's shard.
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  It just kept going on and on and on and on. But that's
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  one of my funny charting stories. That's so good. So we're talking the
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  success obviously a Watermelon Moonshine. Is it tough to hold a song higher than
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  others? You know what I mean? Like, obviously your first number one
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  is always going to be special. Is it tough to look back and be
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  like this one definitely meant more than the others have so far. I think
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  they've all kind of served their purpose in a different kind of way. I
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  think Watermelon Moonshine has kind of served the purpose of taking people back home.
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  And the truth is, I'm on the road so much right now. It's
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  nice being able to get up there during this season of my life and kind
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  of sing about something that makes me feel at home. I feel like Heart
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  like a Truck was kind of one of those anthems that kind of got me
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  through some hard It's really crazy, like some of the hard times I was
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  dealing with in my personal life while that song was doing its thing. They
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  all serve a purpose. I truly believe that, even if they never see
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  the light of the day. Every song that you write gets you to that
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  next one. Obviously, you don't get to enjoy the journey as much as
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  as you'd like to do your schedule and always, you know, writing when
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  you can, recording, probably even fewer than do you know what's next?
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  Have we already heard what's next? For you? We're getting back in the
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  studio. We're gonna be cutting some more music. The truth is, I
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  think I was already working on my next record before Bellbum Country Ever even came
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  out. So always working on new music. But I was a songwriter before
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  I was an artist, and so that is that's what my one true love
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  is, creating songs, and so that's what I'm gonna be focusing on here
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  really really soon. So hopefully new music will be coming out next year.
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  And hey, if it was up to me, we'd be dropping a song
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  every day. Listen, if you DM it to me, I can be
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  playing it by tomorrow. After I know what I might, I might be
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  like, oops, sorry, guys, listen. The funny thing is I'll
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  get in trouble, not you, But I would do it for lady.
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  Right, do you do you know what direction you want to go with the
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  next album? Like do you think when you think title? Because obviously the
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  songs make the album, But do you ever think title, because I mean,
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  bell Bottom Country. You could really work your way up a country outfit.
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  You could do bell Bottom Country and the next song is like turtle Neck
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  two step or something. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna whoop
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  you too. Actually, that's crazy you say that, because that was gonna
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  be the name of the next record, Turtle Neck Tuesday. Crazy. The
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  truth is, I think the name of the record will kind of just find
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  itself. So but we we created the term bell Bottom Country back in twenty
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  seventeen when I signed up my publishing deal and somebody was kind of referring to
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  the way that I dress and also kind of the sound of my music and
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  said, it's like, it's kind of like bell Bottom Country, and a
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  little light went off in our head and that was it. We were like,
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  this is gonna kind of like help us figure out what things look like
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  and what things sound like. And so it kind of just made sense to
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  call that sophomore record build Bottom Country. But the next record, I think
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  it's going to show a different side of me. It's definitely going to show
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  growth. I think I've grown a whole lot as a singer, songwriter and
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  just as a person in the past year, two years, So you're going
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  to be able to see that as you experience more life and you are seeing
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  the success which every success, every rise to from the ashes, has to
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  start. What's falling on your face? Right, And we've all fallen on
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  our face and got up, and I'm sure you have before we ever knew
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  your name. But the comeback has been phenomenal for Lanny Wilson. But as
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  that happens, you're going to find more stories to tell. Is it going
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  to get tougher as we continue to learn who Lannie Wilson is? Is it
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  going to get tougher for you to dig deeper and become more vulnerable than you
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  already have? No, To be honest, I think well, I would
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  say it's just hard in general to be vulnerable and like really be vulnerable.
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  You can like pretend you're kind of vulnerable, but uh, I feel like
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  I'm getting a little a little more brave with that. I feel like at
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  this point in my career, I'm not having to be like as much of
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  like I'm Landy Wilson from Basking losing Inna from a town of two hundred people
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  and thought I got to die bail Bottom country. I feel like for a
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  really long time it was it was kind of trying. I was trying to
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  set that foundation that way people could remember me. Now I do feel like
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  a little bit of a weight has kind of been lifted. It makes me
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  feel like, Okay, now I've accumulated some fans, and I wouldn't be
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  doing them right if I wouldn't opening up and talking about struggles in my life.
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  And you know, I mean, of course, you tell all your
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  business. You ain't got none. I ain't gonna tell everybody everything, but
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  I want to do it in a way that makes people feel like they're not
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  alone. We're gonna fast forward to the CMA nominations up because I mean,
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  it's really the l CMAS, the Laney Country Music Association Awards, now right,
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  You're like, you know, listen, I'm laying the cheese on thick.
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  Okay. Is it nuts to see your name on some of the biggest
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  categories that exist in country music? Yes, and especially when I'm competing against
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  myself. There are a few categories where me and Hardy are competing with me
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  and Jelly. It's just like it's crazy, And especially the Entertainer of the
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  Year thing, I fink I got some big o's, she used to feel.
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  But the truth is we have. We literally had a club tour top
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  of this year. We played stadiums with Lukecolmb's. We're on the road with
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  Hardy right now. We have played every kind of air and festival you can
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  think of. In between we played Red Rocks. We have played a gazillion
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  shows, so we've been doing some entertaining. How excited are you to And
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  first of all, good look before we move on, good luck at the
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  CMA Awards. Everybody loves Landy Wilson. So I think you'll do You'll do
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  fine, which turns out Tay and I will be there. So if you
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  need help carrying trophies, holler at us all right. Well, you know
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  they don't actually give you the trophy the day of. They wait like six
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  or so months and you get it in the mail. That bothers me.
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  They doing us dirty. They're doing us dirty. You know what, I'm
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  gonna hand make you some and just carry him in myself. Uh, you're
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  we recently what that trophy looked like. It would be horrible because my I'm
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  not like good at man's stuff, so like I can't build things. I
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  can't you if we were all stranded out somewhere, you would be more helpful
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  in us surviving than I would be when it when it comes to touring you,
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  your name is on some pretty impressive dates, including this Morgan Wallen uh
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  Stadium tour. We just heard you're on a select few of those dates.
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  Knowing that Morgan is and I'm not taking away because there is not much hotter
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  name than Landy Wilson country music right now. But to know that a guy
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  like Morgan, who is literally rewriting you know how a country music career goes.
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  What does that mean? To be able to hop on the road and
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  possibly end up collaborating together at some point, It's awesome. I love him.
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  I've known him for a long time. But I went on the road
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  with him and Hardy in twenty nineteen and we were playing like a thousand cap
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  rooms. I mean like it was we were playing clubs and it was just
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  me and my guitar, and then Hardy was next and then Morgan. And
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  I remember then being like, I just know it. This dude is he's
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  gonna do something that we have never seen and he's doing it. And I
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  knew he would there's just something about the guy, you know, there's just
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  something about him. You're just like, you can't help but love Morgan want
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  And it is a movement. And I'll tell you what I think what him
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  and Luke Colmbs both have done for country music. I mean, it's crazy
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  to see how cool country music is, like becoming again. It should have
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  never not been cool, but it does feel like it's a part of like
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  a pop culture movement right now. And I'm proud to be a part of
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  it too. A lot of people are saying, like, it feels like
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  nineties country again, right. It feels huge, It feels it feels like
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  the shows are getting bigger, the crowds are getting bigger. Yeah, I
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  think I think, looking back on it years from now, be like I
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  was a part of that right there, not even a part of a leader
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  in it. Lady Wilson, we're carrying the torch. Let's go. Hey,
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  we know you are type for time. And my god, we talked
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  to you at nine thirty this morning and you're still sitting roughly in the same
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  seat you were then. And guess what I got. I got here at
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  eight fifteen. Yeah, mhm. Dedication, deddication but it is funny that
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  my day started with y'all and it's kind of ending. We all too well.
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  We appreciate you, and again I'm from the bottom of both of our
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  hearts. That was that was It was even more special because we got to
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  share with you, so thank you for that earlier. I love y'all and
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  I'm very proud for y'all. Thank you. We love you girl. We'll
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  catch up so