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Lainey Wilson’s ‘Dream Come True’ Performance With Dolly Parton

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Lainey Wilson joined her musical hero, Dolly Parton, on Dolly’s CBS special “Pet Gala” this week and got to sing Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” with the music icon.

Lainey posted a clip of the performance on her Instagram yesterday (2/21). She captioned the clip, “Dogs, dolly, and a little sparkle…three of my favorite things. Sharing a stage with the queen herself, @dollyparton, to perform “I Will Always Love You” was a dream come true. #dollyspetgala.”

Many of WIlson’s “Wild Horses” fan club reacted to the post. One fan wrote, “Goosebumps!!!!” Another fan commented, “We NEED this song rendition RELEASED.” One more fan said, “Wow! Lainey !!! The two of them, amazing.”

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In November, after Wilson won Album of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, and Entertainer of the Year at the CMA Awards, she came backstage to chat with the press.

I asked Lainey about meeting and spending some quality time with the 1978 CMA Entertainer of The Year, Dolly Parton. Wilson said that the two got together at Dollywood a week before the CMA Awards. She told me, “Actually, when I went to Dollywood, and I hung out with her a little bit, I told her… I said the CMAs are around the corner. She said, ‘I’ve won one a time or two.’ I mean, Dolly, she’s it. She’s the one that I look to when I think about how to go about this business. She’s never been scared to step outside the lines, to step outside the box. But at the same time, she’s completely true to herself and true to her story.”

She added, “I asked for some advice on how do you keep on going? And she said, ‘You’ve got to keep going, and whatever you are affiliated with, make sure that you’re passionate about it because at the end of the day. If you’re not, people can read right through that.'”

Wilson concluded with a smile. “It’s incredible, you know how everybody says don’t meet your hero? Well, I’ll tell you what, that’s not Dolly Parton. She’s someone I think everybody needs to strive to be.”  And clearly, she’s someone who anyone would be lucky to meet.

Five Country Stars Who Should Play The Las Vegas Sphere

  • Lainey Wilson

    Lainey is the CMA’s current Entertainer of the Year and has proven herself a hard worker. While she shined as an opener in 2023 on the Luke Combs stadium tour and HARDY’s tour, we feel she is cooking up something big for her first headlining tour in 2024. Playing a show at the Las Vegas Sphere would be an amazing opportunity for Wilson to outdo herself on stage. Looking at the work she puts into her video creation and even her television stage moments, it’s a no-brainer she would be great with a dome of activity behind her every move on stage.

  • Carrie Underwood

    When Carrie kicked off her “Denim & Rhinestones Tour” in late 2022, I was invited as a guest of Underwood to travel with her and other music friends to Kentucky and check out the show. Carrie’s performance was non-stop action with backdrops of video content, which would be perfect for the Las Vegas Sphere. A multiple Entertainer of the Year winner for the ACM, Underwood is a pro and has the live show down to near perfection.

    There is no doubt Carrie works hard and even flies through the air over her crowd at a couple of points in the show in a ring. U2 is the only act who has played the Sphere so far and acrobatics isn’t really their thing (give the guys a break, they’re in their 60s). But we’d think that the Sphere would be set up for artists who want to fly over the crowd.  She would be amazing in that setting and already has the Las Vegas crowd charmed yearly with her ongoing “Reflections” show at Resorts World.

  • Keith Urban

    I am not gonna lie; I am partial to Keith Urban and always have been since I started to interview him over twenty years ago when he first started out. This guy was born to entertain and has one of the best stage shows in not just country music but also music in general. He’s funny on stage and interacts with his fans at shows. And, of course, can play the guitar like no one else. Urban already plays a Vegas residency a couple of times each year so the Sphere would be a natural fit for him.

  • Luke Bryan

    Luke has so much energy on stage and always has been a great performer. With his high-octane shows and fun sense of humor, this guy could really have some fun with the technology that the Las Vegas Sphere has to offer. He just wrapped his Las Vegas residency at Resorts World earlier this year, and Vegas already loves him.

    Bryan’s music videos always impress; we’re sure he would do something special with the Sphere dome-shaped video in mind. Tickets for Luke’s Vegas shows go quickly, as would a show at the Sphere.

  • Reba McEntire

    When Reba is done with her world domination of television with her perfect National Anthem singing at the Super Bowl, coaching on The Voice, and the new sitcom that is coming on NBC, she may just make a move to a Las Vegas residency. Reba has always done Vegas, but not yet a big residency, and if you have ever through the years seen Reba in concert, you know what a showman she is.

    She recently told us that she loves the way Garth Brooks plays for fans at his Vegas residency. Can you imagine what Reba could do to “Fancy” in a dome covered with the video? I had the chance to see her 2023 concert tour, and aside from singing every word to every song as loud as possible, the capacity crowd was hypnotized by her performance from the minute she hit the stage. Yeah, she’s still got it.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.

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