“The List Goes On”: Lainey Wilson Reveals The Two Country Icons She’d LOVE To Work With

CeCe Dawson

Hopefully, this means one of them will be on her next album… we need it.

Lainey Wilson already has tons of shows booked for 2026, while she also tries to plan a wedding, so we’ll probably be lucky if we get a new album… but considering how Lainey never seems to stop working, I won’t be surprised if she does put out some sort of project.

During interview with People a little while back, she spoke about her dream collaboration, which included Miley Cyrus at the top of her list, because Lainey was of course a Hannah Montana impersonator back in Louisiana.

But in terms of country artists, she says working with Eric Church or Chris would be a dream come true:

“There’s so many people on my list. I would love to do something with Miley Cyrus, of course. I mean, I used to impersonate Hannah Montana. So, I always say Miley, and I’m going to keep saying it until we do something together.

When it comes to country, I’d love to do something with Chris Stapleton, Eric Church, the list goes on and on.”

Lainey has said before that Church is her and fiancé Duck’s favorite artist to listen to together, and she was recently added as an opener on Chris’ All-American Road Show tour, and I think either one of them would be a natural fit for a future project.

During that same interview, she revealed that she has been working on new music, though she’s just now coming off an insanely impressive run with her 2024 Whirlwind album, including Grammy nominations, as well as winning the CMA Album of the Year award with the record, as well as the ACM Album of the Year and ACM Artist-Songwriter of the Year with it too.

She says the next project is a work in progress still:

“I have been writing some songs. It has been so much fun. Even in the past couple weeks, I’ve been feeling very inspired. We’re trying to figure out which direction we are going, but the more songs that I write for the project, it seems like it’s going to happen.

I’m not the type of artist to write 12 or 15 songs, and that’s what makes the record. I want to write 100 songs, and then we find the 12 or 15.”

It’s pretty surprising that Lainey hasn’t done a song with Church or Stapleton yet, because they’re two of the absolute best in mainstream country and I think either one of them would be a perfect fit for Lainey’s style.

It remains to be seen if this will happen anytime soon, but a girl can dream…

Lainey also just scored her ninth career #1 at country radio with her single “Somewhere Over Laredo”: