Take 5 with country music superstar Lainey Wilson
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How did Lainey Wilson’s small‑town upbringing shape her love for music?
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It makes me feel like, okay, if Dolly Parton believes in me, then I'm fine.
Yeah.
If I've got her little, you know, approval, then I'm gonna be alright.
That's a pretty big cosign.
Yeah.
Raised in small town, Louisiana, Lainey Wilson is now selling out huge arenas across the world.
I wanna crown somebody cowgirl of the night.
She's made a name for herself on screen in Yellowstone and won the biggest accolade in country music twice as the CMA's Entertainer of the Year. Laney Wilson.
Thank you so much. God bless every single one of y'all. I don't even know what else to say.
Through it all, her southern charm shines through. And you can see how her childhood has gifted her the values that have made her succeed.
My daddy used to always say, if you tell all your business you ain't got none. Why I tell too much of my business, so sorry about that. But that's how I'm gonna wind up on the prayer list back at home. Watch it thing.
With the whirlwind of her life sweeping Lainey up over the past few years, I asked her to choose the songs that keep her grounded. You can watch this Take Five right now on ABCIView and see us dancing along to every song. Growing up in a small farming town, music was Lainey's lifeline to the outside world. Country music was her constant. It taught her everything about life, love and family.
Those songs took me somewhere.
Mm-hmm.
And they made me feel something. And I just
What inspired Lainey to write her first song at nine years old?
wanted to feel that over and over and over again and then eventually I got to the point when I wrote my first song, I was like, I wanna make people feel that way. Mm. I wanna tell a story. I wanna take 'em somewhere. I wanna take 'em back.
Drink a watermelon blue shot.
Was your dad or your mum musical? Like where did your passion for music come from?
Uh there was always music playing in the background. Um my daddy can play a little bit of guitar by ear and piano by ear. My mama sings the loudest in church, but it that don't that don't mean she's good. Um So there was a deep love and appreciation. for music in my house and Yeah, you just couldn't escape. Country radio. We felt like we were We just felt like they were singing directly to us. I didn't even realize that country was a genre. I thought it was really just like a way of life.
But I told him that he was the one. You're so sure when you're that game. You think you got it all figured out
Well, for all these reasons, I asked you to take five with the songs that keep you grounded. What's your first choice?
Mel McDaniel, Louisiana Saturday night.
Louisiana
Saturday
night.
This is a fun song.
This is a fun song.
Where does it take you?
It takes me home. Um, so I'm originally from northeast Louisiana. I'm from a town called the Village of Baskin, which is a population one seventy.
Wow.
One seventy. Yep. And I'm very proud of like where I come from. I feel like I am who I am because of Baskin and I feel like I tell the kind of stories that I tell because I'm from there. It's a place that raised me and when you're from a town of a hundred and seventy, I mean it's you're either like helping your daddy in the field farm or you're sitting around a table like this and you're telling stories or you're you're hearing the stories that you've been hearing for years and they somehow get better every single time that you hear 'em. What's Baskin like? Is it a farming community? It is a farming community. So my daddy farms corn. Wheat, soybeans, oats, uh, we have horses. He's a very busy man. I compare what I do to what he does a lot of the time.
Like there's a lot of similarities of just like getting up and doing the thing, busting your tail, you know, a storm could roll through and wipe it all away, but at the end of the day, like if it's What you know and it's the only thing you know how to do, you just get up and do it anyway.
How did a Hannah Montana impersonation launch her early performance career?
And you sow the seeds with the faith that there's gonna, you know, be a crop that's that's reached from those.
That's it. However
many years later.
And eventually you will have a good year if you just hold on one.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Lainey Wilson’s small‑town upbringing shape her love for music?
0:00–1:40
2
What inspired Lainey to write her first song at nine years old?
1:40–4:17
3
How did a Hannah Montana impersonation launch her early performance career?
4:17–8:01
4
What challenges did Lainey face moving to Nashville with a camper trailer?
8:01–13:37
5
Which song became Lainey’s breakthrough single and why?
13:37–18:30
6
Why does Lainey say she’s “not for everyone” and how does that reflect her identity?
18:30–26:47
7
How does Lainey view country music as a “big‑tent” genre for all listeners?
26:47–42:01
8
What message does the final song ‘Humble and Kind’ convey for her fans?
42:01–52:37