Lainey Wilson Jokes About Lyrics of First Song She Wrote at 9: ‘Tequila and Cigarettes and Everything Else’

Lainey Wilson came to The Late Show connected Wednesday nighttime (Sept. 24) to, successful her words, speech astir “peace, emotion and cowboys.” In her archetypal due sit-down with big Stephen Colbert, the state prima talked astir being from Baskin, La., a municipality she joked bumped down to 156 residents aft she left.

“That’s not a tiny town, that’s a large family,” Colbert said. Wilson described getting the bug to get effort state euphony due to the fact that it was the lingua franca of her tiny town, where, she explained, “when you’re from a municipality of 157, you unrecorded your unrecorded connected the borderline of your spot waiting connected the adjacent story.”

That’s wherefore it was nary astonishment that she wrote her archetypal opus astatine nine-years-old aft feeling similar the voices connected the vigor were “speaking to me.” Wilson — known for her eye-catching ensembles, wore a suede patchwork suit and matching brownish chapeau for the quality — joked that her taxable substance astatine the clip was wholly mean for a 4th grader: “tequila and cigarettes and everything else.” She besides made her archetypal $20 astatine that property singing astatine the expansive opening of a section convenience store, a measure her dada inactive has framed astatine home.

That wasn’t her lone gig arsenic a kid. She said she and her sister were besides rodeo “flag girls,” with Wilson doing double-duty by singing the National Anthem connected horseback astatine the nonrecreational rodeo events.

Wilson brought her signature manner flare to a show aboriginal successful the amusement arsenic well, wearing a belly-baring pinkish jumpsuit with a ample bejeweled belt, achromatic cowboy chapeau and a pinkish and achromatic flowing cape arsenic she rambled done “Somewhere Over Laredo” from the deluxe variation of her Whirlwind album. The opus opened with a close-up of an old-fashioned woody TV console, with Wilson singing the moving ballad successful achromatic and achromatic earlier the tempo picked up and she was successful afloat technicolor, crooning astir flying implicit Laredo and “dreaming astir those rodeo nights.”

Watch Wilson connected the Late Show below.