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This is Behind the Rose, where Bachelor Nation needs country music and everything in between.

Here's your host, Blake Horsman.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Behind the Rose podcast. I'm your host, Blake

Corsman, here with my buddy as usual, Eric Bradley. And today we're talking to a new country singer,

Lainey Wilson. You may know Lainey from three of her songs appearing on the hit TV show Yellowstone.

We talk about how a nine-year-old Louisiana girl decided on a family trip that Nashville was where

she belonged.

How she worked her way through high school as a Hannah Montana impersonator, and we get her take on Bachelor Nation. Her debut debut this week in the top 10 on Spotify's

album chart. And her song, Things a Man O' Know, is on country radio right now.

If you're ready love a woman, you don't let her go. Yeah, I know if you claims a man ought to know. Here's our chat with Lainey Wilson, behind the rows. Lany, thanks for joining us. Thank you all so much for having me. We're going to have some fun. Yeah, we are. We are. I tell you what, I'm so happy've got you on here because you're on fire right now, Laney. You're killing it. Congrats on all the success. Thank you. That feels good. I appreciate that. Yeah, your album just dropped and it's top 10 on Spotify. I know. I'm like, hold on, what? I'm used to just be in my mom daddy listening now. It's a lot of people and it's still good. That dropped this past Friday, correct? Yep, on the 19th. We've been working on this thing for a long, long time, and it just, it feels so good to finally get it out there. And this is like this record front to back is truly who I am, what I want to say and how I want to say it.

And it feels good.

I was going to say people are obviously, they're relating to it quite a bit if it's in top stones. That's got to be a cool feeling. You know, that's got to be a cool feeling. You just said it's like put your heart and soul into this. Yeah. And then all of a sudden people start reacting to it. It's definitely a songwriter's dream.

I mean, you know, that's the goal every single time you sit down and try to write a song.

It's just to it. It's definitely a songwriter's dream. I mean, you know, that's the goal every single time you sit down and try to write a song. It's just to connect and, you know, make sure that people can relate to you. And it does feel good at it. You know, my goal is to make sure everybody feels like they're not alone, whether that means we're trying to have a dang good time or whether that means they're going through something. So, yes, you are completely

right. That's the goal. Did you ever dream of anything like this? Like growing up, were you like, this is what I want to do? Like music is my life. Is that kind of what it was like? It's so crazy, Blake. So when I was nine years old, my parents took me on a family vacation to Gallenburg. And we went to Dollywood and we did that whole thing.

And on the way back home to Louisiana, I'm from a little bitty town, northeast Louisiana town

of like 300 people, 299 now that I left. And we drove through Nashville on our way home. And I remember

exactly where I was on the interstate. I was looking at the Batman building. And at nine years old, I said, this is home. And to be honest with you, I've just, I've always known. I've always known that I was going to be here. I didn't know how I was going to do it, but I've always just kind of had like this weird sense of piece about it. And finally, at 19 years old, I bought a camper trailer and hauled the thing up here and have not left. Wow. That's incredible. That's pretty incredible. Yeah. That's awesome. So were you always very musically inclined? Like, is your family musically inclined, you know, your parents and all that? Yeah. So my daddy plays guitar a little bit by ear. He can play a little bit of piano too.

My mama, bless her heart.

She can't carry a tune in a bucket.

It's bad.

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