Lainey Wilson is a country singer-songwriter from Baskin, Louisiana, born in 1992, who worked her way up through Nashville songwriting before breaking big. Bell Bottom Country (2022) won the Grammy for Best Country Album and she took CMA Entertainer of the Year in 2023 — start there, then grab Whirlwind (2024). Find Lainey Wilson vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Lainey Denay Wilson was born in Baskin, Louisiana on May 19, 1992. She relocated to Nashville in the early 2010s and worked as a songwriter and performer before signing with Broken Bow Records / BBR Music Group. Her debut Sayin' What I'm Thinkin' (2021) launched her commercial career, with Bell Bottom Country (2022) expanding her audience through extensive country radio play. She won the CMA Entertainer of the Year award in 2023. She has been involved in the Yellowstone (TV series) universe - playing the character Abby in the fifth season. She won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album in 2024 for Bell Bottom Country.
Lainey Wilson's sound combines country, country pop, country rock, Southern country, and traditional country with her distinctive vocal delivery and lyrical content drawing on Southern American working-class experience and traditional country songwriting traditions.
BBR Music Group pressings of the Lainey Wilson catalog have been issued in multiple color variant editions and retailer-exclusive pressings.
Listeners new to Lainey Wilson typically start with Bell Bottom Country (2022) or Whirlwind (2024).
