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Lainey Wilson’s jaw dropped when Jackson Dean revealed a stunning gift for her.
Dean said he wanted to “get her something nice,” after touring with the reigning CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year on her headlining “Country’s Cool Again Tour.” Dean recently shared a video on Instagram to show how he designed a “Wildflowers and Wild Horses”-themed guitar, after one of Wilson’s biggest hits. The single appeared eon her 2022 record, Bell Bottom Country. The Western-themed guitar features images of wild horses, cacti, wildflowers and more, all designed by Dean.
“Stop!” Wilson exclaimed when she saw the guitar for the first time. “Stop. You are lying. …He makes these! This is insane, bro. Thank you. Oh, my gosh. …Now we need to write us (a song) on here.”
While they were on tour, Wilson and Dean released new albums. Wilson delivered Whirlwind, a 14-track record that includes “Country’s Cool Again,” “Good Horses” with Miranda Lambert, “Whirlwind,” “Hang Tight Honey,” “4x4xU” and more. Whirlwind is Wilson’s highly-anticipated follow-up to Bell Bottom Country, which earned Wilson her first Grammy Award earlier this year.
Dean released On The Back Of My Dreams, a project titled after a lyric from Dean’s favorite song on the album. He said via his record label at the time, “I’ve lived a lot of life and have watched a lot of life be lived and each of these songs were written from a single frame of a moment, almost as vignettes, drawn from daydreams, nightmares and everything in between. …We’ve been working on this album for several years now and the thought of people turning it up and getting lost in the journey of it all is really doing something to this thing beating in my chest. …A lot of love and life was put into these 13 songs and I hope people find something in it…joy, healing, connection, thoughts, memories or even just a good groove.”