Hey guys, Willie Geistier with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. I am so very excited to bring in my

conversation this week with one of the biggest stars in all of music right now.

She is Country Music Sensation, Lainey Wilson.

Lainey Wilson right now is your country music

association Entertainer of the Year.

She's won all kinds of female artists of the year,

Entertainer of the Year Award. She just won all kinds of female artist of the year,

Entertainer of the Year awards.

She just won the Grammy Award this year

for Best Country Album.

She is absolutely on fire, and it comes after a long climb to get there.

The 32 year old who comes from a tiny farming town in Baskin, Louisiana, it's called, population

around 200, might be a little more, might be a little less might be a little less grew up with her sister and

her parents on the farm her dad is an honest to goodness farmer she rode horses and

helped on the farm her mother a school teacher and she had a dream from the time she had a

had a dream from the time she was a little girl five years old then going

to Nashville at nine years old and deciding she was going to end up there

someday graduated high school moved to Nashville at 19 where she lived in a trailer on property

owned by a family friend who just kind of took her under his wing. He was a producer, kind of showed her around Nashville a little bit,

but it took her a long time as you'll hear and a lot of rejection, more than a decade

before she started to make it. She got her first number one song in 2021,

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