Benny Westcott
Rising star Lainey Wilson has joined the 2023 Oregon Jamboree Music Festival lineup, performing Saturday, Aug. 5, for her first showcase at the three-day event.
Her appearance was announced Friday on the Jamboree’s Facebook page.
“This is the first year for most of the artists at the Jamboree,” Festival Director Robert Shamek said. “We’re trying to bring some new fresh artists to our patrons. It is shaping up to be our best year ever. I can’t wait for August to roll around.”
The 30-year-old Wilson is a six-time Country Music Association Award nominee and an Academy of Country Music’s New Female of the Year Award winner for 2022. She was crowned Billboard’s Top New Country Artist of 2021 and earned Country Music Television’s Breakout Artist of the Year Award last year.
She landed her first Billboard Country Airplay No. 1 in 2021 with her platinum-certified ACM Song of the Year, “Things a Man Oughta Know,” which first appeared on her 2019 BBR Music Group EP, “Redneck Hollywood,” then resurfaced on 2021’s full-length “Sayin’ What I’m Thinkin’,” which was nominated for CMA Album of the Year. This milestone arrived nearly 10 years to the day Wilson arrived in Nashville after leaving her small farming community of Baskin, La., in a camper trailer.
The artist topped the Country Airplay charts again in 2022 with “Never Say Never,” featuring Cole Swindell. Her winning ways continued when both “Heart Like a Truck,” from her “Bell Bottom Country” album, and “Wait in the Truck,” a duet with singer/songwriter HARDY, steamrolled onto the Hot Country Songs chart, peaking at Nos. 13 and 7, respectively.
In addition to performing for sold-out crowds worldwide with Jon Pardi, Luke Combs, Morgan Wallen, Hardy, Jason Aldean and Ashley McBryde, Wilson has cowritten songs for such artists as Luke Combs and Flatland Cavalry. She also began making inroads into other mediums, making her acting debut last year on a fifth-season episode of the Paramount Network’s “Yellowstone.”
The 31st Annual Oregon Jamboree is scheduled for Aug. 4-6, and will feature headliners Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cody Johnson and Parker McCollum. For more information and updates, visit oregonjamboree.com.