Hey everyone, welcome to season four of Biscuits and Jam.

I'm Sid Evans, editor-in-chief of Southern Living Magazine, and we're launching this season with a special episode about one of my favorite cities.

Every year, aspiring country artists relocate

to Nashville to pursue their career in music, but the move doesn't always lead to fame and fortune,

and it can often prove to be quite difficult. Today on the show, I'm going to share stories

from past guests about when they made the move sometimes at a very young age and what it was

like starting out in Music City. I'm going to kick things off today with musician and actor

Laney Wilson who spent her early days in Nashville living in a camper trailer. Lainey, you moved to

Nashville in a camper trailer and I think you said 2011.

You didn't really know anyone.

What were some of your days and what did some of your early gigs look like?

Man, August 1st, 2011, I moved to Nashville in a Flagstaff bumper pool camper trailer.

And I was known as the camper trailer girl.

I didn't know where to start.

I didn't not know who to talk to.

I will say a crazy story that kind of goes with the whole camper trailer thing.

Back in the late 70s, my grandfather on my daddy side, his name was Basil Wilson.

I called him Buck. There was a guy from my hometown who was kind of like family, but not, but he had this dream of moving to Nashville and being a

songwriter and a producer. And my grandfather gave him a few hundred dollars to kind of help him move to

Nashville and get started. So years later,

he had some success in the 90s with like Ken Millons and Kevin Sharp. And as a favor in return,

he literally let me live in my camper outside of his studio in a patch of grass. He let me live there

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