It didn’t take long during a Grammy speech for a winner to recognize her rural and farming roots.
“I am from a farming community in northeast Louisiana, a little town of 200 people, and I’m a fifth-generation farmer’s daughter, and I would consider myself a farmer too,” Lainey Wilson said while accepting the Best Country Album award for Bell Bottom Country. “And everybody that I surround myself with, I think they’re farmers too, but they’re story farmers.”
Wilson grew up on her family’s farm in Baskin, La., where her father, Brian, raised corn, wheat, and oats. Her mother, Michelle, worked as a schoolteacher. She also has an older sister named Janna.