Lainey Wilson - Dreamcatcher
LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Dreamcatcher’ - Lainey Wilson
Another fast-rising star at C2C this year was Louisiana born but now Nashville based singer-songwriter Lainey Wilson. Signed to BBR Music Group’s flagship imprint, ‘Broken Bow Records, Lainey has spent years honing her song craft and developing her own “bell bottom country” sound, which is unapologetic, gritty, free-spirited, and exemplary of both her personality and her preferred fashion aesthetic. We love this live version of ‘Dreamcatcher’ taken from her self titled EP released last April.
We rate Lainey very highly and we are pleased to announce that she is one of LCM ‘One to Watch’ in 2019.
Hailing from the rural farming community of Baskin, Louisiana (pop. 300), where her family has tilled the land for five generations, Lainey cultivated her tenacious work ethic just as her family cultivated corn, wheat, soybeans, oats, and more. She learned that daily chores on the farm were a family affair and every member had to do their part.
Music was also a family affair. Lainey’s father played guitar, her mother loved to dance, and her grandparents often took her to bluegrass festivals. She wrote her first song at age nine, and her dad taught her how to play guitar at age 11. Wilson’s love for writing and performing continued to grow as she booked herself gigs throughout high school, even working for a stint as a Hannah Montana impersonator performing at children’s birthday parties and events – with Lainey Wilson the artist opening for Montana, of course.
It wasn’t long until Lainey moved to Nashville to pursue her dream of making music, with little more to her name than that dream and a Flagstaff bumper-pull travel trailer. She lived in that camper outside of a longtime family friend’s recording studio for three years. It was during this time that Lainey began to make inroads with Nashville’s tight-knit songwriting community, forging invaluable creative relationships with other up-and-coming songwriters in town and steadily developing her own voice as both a writer and an artist.