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Lainey Wilson and HARDY’s Amazing End-of-Tour Gifts

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

It is an unspoken Nashville and country music tradition to give gifts to your tourmates after a tour ends, and buddies Lainey Wison and HARDY did just that when his “The mocking bird and THE CROW Tour” ended over the weekend. Lainey was the tour’s opener.

Wilson posted a video of the exchange on her Instagram. In a video clip posted among photos from the last night of the tour, you can see Lainey and HARDY in a dressing room, and she says as she bends down to open a guitar, “We played a radio show together and what’s the name of that guitar?” HARDY says, “No f—— way, dude. I’ve been thinking about that forever, and I just didn’t want to say anything.” Wilson gets the guitar out and says, “You ain’t seen nothing yet.” She laughs, “I’m opening your gift!” She shows her friend that the guitar has a mockingbird and a crow on “the end.” He shouts, “Oh my God, dude. Give me a hug. It’s gonna make me cry.” She says, “I love you! Thank you for everything.”

HARDY says, “That is such a good gift,” They both call the guitar “bad a–” and he strums it for a minute before giving her an envelope saying, “Here’s yours,” telling the camera, “We’re gonna put her up at Blackberry Farms for a few days.” Blackberry Farm is a luxury hotel in the Smoky Mountains.

Lainey captioned the post, “@hardy, we will talk about this tour for the rest of our lives. Loved burning up with the road with you, friend.”

See that post here.

RELATED: Lainey Wilson: Felt Like An ‘Imposter’ After Winning Top CMA

When Wilson wins an award — she just won five at the CMA Awards, including Entertainer of the Year a month ago — she often shouts out to young girls who dream of a career in country music just like she once did.

Backstage after she won her CMA Awards, Lainey talked about those young girls who look up to her. She told us, “It means a lot to think that there’s a lot of little girls watching and looking up to me. I do feel a big responsibility, but I feel like I’ve got it. I’m gonna do it.”

5 Lainey Wilson Music Videos Everyone Should Watch

  • "Things A Man Oughta Know" (2020)

    This music video is quite personal as it was filmed in Lainey’s own home and filled with personal elements and close friends. It was released on April 2, 2021.

    Wilson told us at the time of release, “I hoped that people would connect to this song, and it’s been so incredible to see just how strong the reaction has been. For the music video, we wanted to create a piece of art where people could watch it and feel something all over again.”

  • "Heart Like A Truck" (2022)

    This cinematic video stars Lainey as a stable hand who is brought in to earn the trust of a free-spirited pony that no one else has been able to tame. Through time, care, and patience, she can get through the difficult period and eventually rides the horse around the farm, designed to mirror her own approach to relationships.

    Wilson recently celebrated the song going to number one on the country charts with a party on Music Row, where she and the song’s co-writers sang it from their own separate truck beds in a parking lot.

  • "Grease" (2023)

    This song was never released as a single, but they did make a music video of it, and it’s kind of personal to this journalist as my buddy, a budding country singer named Presley, is a dancing extra in it, dancing right beside Lainey. The video features a bunch of breakdancers all dancing to the song in front of Wilson’s tour buses.

  • "Watermelon Moonshine" (2023)

    It’s another number-one country song. Lainey told us about it, “This song embodies what country music means to me, creating a timeless story that will resonate with people for generations to come. This song is about the crazy, young, nostalgic love we all hope to experience.” The video has been watched almost 10 million times on YouTube.

    Even though Wilson is an actress herself, she actually has actors Rachel Lynn Matthews and Sam Sherrod play in the video, acting out the storyline of the song and depicting the unfolding of a young love. Wilson performs the song in a field as she narrates the story.

  • "Wait In The Truck" (2022)

    This fantastic video from a duet with Lainey and HARDY is an award winner. It won the CMA for Music Video of the Year and the Musical Event of the Year award. “Wait In The Truck” also won the Visual Media of the Year (basically Video of the Year) at the 2023 ACM Awards. The music video also won Collaborative Music Video of the Year at the 2023 CMT Music Awards and was nominated for Video of the Year.

    In this journalist’s opinion, the murder ballad and video is one of country music’s most prolific videos in the last decade. The video has been watched 69 million times on YouTube.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.

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