Lainey Wilson – Whirlwind (2024) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Lainey Wilson – Whirlwind (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:52 minutes | 636 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Broken Bow Records

Lainey Wilson delivers “Whirlwind,” a daringly honest look into the singer’s life and journey around the world. The highly anticipated August 23rd release features a 14-track album produced by Jay Joyce.Lainey Wilson has been kicking around Nashville for a decade, but her 2022 album Bell Bottom Country came on like a force, pushing her to superstar status—and CMA’s Entertainer of the Year (the first woman to do so since Taylor Swift in 2009). Her follow-up, and fifth album, continues to prove she deserves the accolades. The first two tracks on Whirlwind, which teams her with producer Jay Joyce once again, are full-of-attitude spitfires. “Last night I felt like a two-dollar pistol/ This morning I feel like I got shot,” Wilson sings, her powerful voice cutting like a serrated knife, on “Keep Up With Jones,” a muscular shuffle with rock ‘n’ roll edge. (Jones, of course, is the legendary George, an inveterate drinker who once, the story goes, rode a lawnmower to the liquor store when his wife took away the car keys.) With songs like this and “Country’s Cool Again,” a bit of country blues with honking organ and a juicy gospel chorus, you aren’t ever going to wonder, “Who’s that?” Wilson is unmistakable, even when you can hear her influences—Dolly Parton, Lee Ann Womack—on numbers such as the mid-tempo ballad “Broken Hearts Still Beat” and “Devil Don’t Go There.” The distinctive nuances of her tone shine on stripped-down, upbeat “Counting Chickens,” and her voice is a wallop on high-energy “Hang Tight Honey,” as she chronicles loving the road life and missing the one at home: “Me and this band playing one-night stands for some fans getting straight up sideways/ But baby I miss your blue-collar kiss.” Authenticity, be it wearing a blue collar or a 10-gallon hat, is a recurring theme, like on the fist-pumping power ballad “Call a Cowboy” (perfect for a pickup-truck commercial) and “Good Horses,” a lovely duet with Miranda Lambert. There’s also humor here on “Ring Finger,” a funky strut with Wilson rapping about wanting to get engaged only to catch her man cheating: “I got the ring/ He got the finger.” “Whiskey Colored Crayon” dips into the kind of sincere lyrical absurdity that only country songs can get away with. A little boy sketches his family—”A little red house with a little green tree … brother with a football, sister with a puppy dog/ Mama with a smile and her church dress on”—but there’s just one problem: “‘Teacher, I can’t draw Daddy. Do you have a whiskey colored crayon?'” More effective is what sounds like a letter to Wilson’s teenage self, the vulnerable “Middle of It.” “You were heartbroke/ That boy did you wrong/ Your pride took a hit/ But you wrote a hit song/ Traded the pictures for records on your wall,” she sings. “Oh but one of these days/ You’re going to miss these days/ When you didn’t even you were on your way.” – Shelly Ridenour

Tracklist:

1-1. Lainey Wilson – Keep Up With Jones (03:47)
1-2. Lainey Wilson – Country’s Cool Again (03:38)
1-3. Lainey Wilson – Good Horses (feat. Miranda Lambert) (03:57)
1-4. Lainey Wilson – Broken Hearts Still Beat (02:48)
1-5. Lainey Wilson – Whirlwind (04:00)
1-6. Lainey Wilson – Call A Cowboy (03:47)
1-7. Lainey Wilson – Hang Tight Honey (03:09)
1-8. Lainey Wilson – Bar In Baton Rouge (05:07)
1-9. Lainey Wilson – Counting Chickens (03:34)
1-10. Lainey Wilson – 4x4xU (03:59)
1-11. Lainey Wilson – Ring Finger (03:39)
1-12. Lainey Wilson – Middle Of It (03:26)
1-13. Lainey Wilson – Devil Don’t Go There (03:30)
1-14. Lainey Wilson – Whiskey Colored Crayon (03:26)

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