Lainey Wilson Is the Realest Deal
glamour.comThe first thing Lainey Wilson says when asked about her hometown is that it has no stoplights. It has a lot of cornfields, though.
It’s a town full of good, hardworking folks who are there when you need them and there when you don’t. She casually uses the phrase “grace and grit” in conversation.
Her Louisiana accent is so potent that there are some words the automated transcription service used to record our interview gets wrong or just leaves out entirely.
To talk to Wilson is to witness a bona fide storyteller at work.For some country music stars, especially those who have come up during the last decade or so, constantly evoking iconography that’s become synonymous with expectations of the genre can feel performative, rote, maybe even a little absurdist. (Luke Bryan can, , wrestle hogs and gators with his two bare hands, hot wire your tractor, and salt-cure a ham).
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