Welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living.

I'm Sid Evans, editor-in-chief of Southern Living magazine.

And my guest today is a rising country star who recently added acting to her resume. Lady Wilson hails from

Baskin, Louisiana, a town of 200 people with no stoplights and lots of cornfields. She grew

up working with her father, a fifth generation farmer, and going to church every Sunday. But by the

time she got her first guitar at age 11, it was clear her calling was music.

Eventually, Wilson started impersonating Hannah Montana several times a week for birthday parties

and local events. In 2011, she packed up and moved to Nashville in a camper trailer, which became her home for three very challenging years.

Fast forward to 2022, and she now has six CMA nominations and the title of CMT's

Breakout Artist of the Year. Today on the show, Lainey talks about her new album, Bell Bottom Country,

her first acting gig on the hit TV show Yellowstone, and how the song

Heart Like a Truck has taken on a whole new meaning. All that and more this week on Biscuits and Jam.

Well, Lainey Wilson, welcome to Biscuits and Jam. I'm so excited to talk to you.

I've interviewed a lot of country artists over the last

couple of years, but I've definitely never interviewed one from Baskin, Louisiana. I'm wondering

if you can paint a picture of your hometown for me. Northeast Louisiana, about 30 miles south of

Monroe, if you've ever heard of Duck Dynasty and all of that.

It is a little speed trap. It's a town of about 200 people and some change. Nothing but a bunch of

cornfields, not even a stoplight. All 200 people are basically my family. And if they're not

blood related, we might as well be related yeah it's

just a blue-collar town with a bunch of hardworking good-hearted people who take pride in what they do

and they're the ones that inspire me to get up every single day and bust my tail to do what i love to do

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