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Lainey Wilson shared why she “poured my heart out” as she offered a heartfelt message “for everyone feeling smack dab in the middle of it this time of year.”
Wilson shared a clip from one of her recent shows on Instagram on Monday morning (December 23). The Grammy Award winner told the story behind “Middle Of It,” one of 14 tracks that appears on her latest full-length record, Whirlwind. Wilson released the project in August. It also includes “Country’s Cool Again,” “Good Horses” with Miranda Lambert, “Hang Tight Honey,” “4x4xU,” and more. Wilson admitted she didn’t think “Middle Of It” would be part of her highly-anticipated album.
“I wanna play y’all a song I didn’t ever think would see the light of day,” she said. “I’ve been touring solid for the last three years. I think I slept in my bed that year about 30 nights. I was just tired. I was dragging. My friends come over, who I write songs with. I remember sitting in the middle of a hard wood floor. They asked me, they said, ‘Lainey, how are you doing? How’s your heart? How’s your head?’ And I said, ‘to be honest with you, I feel like I’m having a hard time remembering where I started and thinking about where I’m gonna end up.’
“I felt like, man, after being in Nashville for 13 years, things were really finally starting to happen, and the Lord had blessed be in so many different ways,” Wilson continued. “(But) from a personal side of things, my daddy was really, really, really sick. And we didn’t think that we were gonna have him here today. At that time in my life, I was having a hard time navigating it. How could I be so excited for what’s happening professionally, but it felt like my heard was breaking on the other hand? And the more I talked about it with my friends, the more I figured out that, that right there, that’s the beauty of it. The not knowing, and the figuring it out. And I told them, I was just smack dab in the middle of it. and she was like, ‘keep talking.’ …and I poured my heart out, and this is what we came up with.”
Listen to “Middle Of It” here: