Lainey Wilson recalls her remarkable first live performance of current single “4x4xU”

At a special songwriter gathering at Nashville’s legendary Bluebird Café on June 17th Lainey Wilson performed their new song “4x4xU” in front of a live audience for the first time. The title was so new that she needed her friend – and fellow performer that night. Post Malone holding her phone so she could read the lyrics on the screen. “I didn’t even know the chords. I just came up with it that night,” Wilson recalls of the song’s first live performance in front of 90 happy country fans at the intimate venue. This track is now Wilson’s current single from her new album. Whirlwindand it continues a trend set by their previous hits “Heart Like a Truck” and “Wait in the Truck.” “For a long time I thought, ‘I’m not going to write about trucks,'” Wilson says. “That’s what everyone does. [But] Every single one of my biggest songs is about a fucking truck. I couldn’t help it, but I guess you just write what you know.” (billboard)

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