Lainey Wilson Opens Up About Her 12-Year Journey to Stardom on ‘Exit 209’

Country star Lainey Wilson joined SiriusXM host Storme Warren to chat about her 12-year journey to Nashville stardom and much more during the latest edition of his exclusive podcast, “Exit 209.”

During the episode titled “It All Starts with a Mentor,” the award-winning queen of “bell-bottom country” compared her music career to farming, dished on driving a tractor with her father while growing up in a small town in Louisiana, and shared her road to Music City USA.

“Whenever [my family and I] were driving through Nashville for the first time, I told my momma and daddy, ‘This is home,’” Lainey said. “I just knew in my heart I was gonna be here one day. It was a weird sense of peace — even at nine years old.”

She also delved into her early days of living in her camper for three years after moving to Nashville, recalled her childhood gig as a Hannah Montana impersonator, described her love of ’90s country, and more.

In each episode of “Exit 209,” Storme Warren dives into the very beginnings of country music’s biggest stars. From the key moment they took the famous “Exit 209” off I-40 into the heart of Nashville’s legendary honky-tonks to having their first bona fide hit record. Find out where today’s country music hitmakers first lived, their not-so-glitzy first jobs in town, how many times they were told “no,” and most importantly, the incredible stories of how they powered through it all.