HARDY and Lainey Wilson brought their powerful “wait in the truck” single to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The song, currently in the Top 10, is from HARDY’s latest the mockingbird & THE CROW album, out now.
“the mockingbird & THE CROW is, in my opinion, the best thing I’ve made so far,” HARDY says of the project, which also includes a collaboration with Morgan Wallen. “I had a lot of time to get in the weeds making this record with some of my favorite people in Nashville, and it truly captures every part of who I am as an artist..”
HARDY wrote “wait in the truck” with Renee Blair, Hunter Phelps and Jordan Schmidt. With the country music genre full of talented female singers, HARDY admits Wilson was his first choice to join him on the track.
“Some names got passed around and talked about, on the business side of things,” HARDY says. “But Lainey — and this might not sound right — but she is that person. She is a country girl, and her voice is so authentic. And so when she sings that, and when she shares that lyric, I believe every single word of that. And I knew that, before I even asked her if she wanted to be a part of it. I knew that Lainey would be the one that everybody would believe. And when you believe it, you’re convicted. And her voice, it was always gonna be heard. She said yes, and we haven’t looked back since then. It’s been awesome.”
The idea for “wait in the truck” happened when HARDY’s now wife, Caleigh, told him about a guy who made a pass at her at a Halloween party, when he was out of town. But once HARDY started telling his co-writers about the idea of “wait in the truck,” he quickly knew that they had latched on to something special.
“The more we talked about the idea with, the more we kind of thought it would be cool to write like a murder ballad, and really dig into that story and see how, how crazy of a story we can write,” HARDY recalls. “And so that’s exactly what we ended up doing. Jordan sent us the demo that night, and there was no question. I said, ‘This is not getting sent to anybody. I’m cutting the song for my record.’”
HARDY will spend part of this year serving as the opening act on Wallen‘s One Night At A Time World Tour, as well as headlining his own shows. Find music and tour dates at HardyOfficial.com.
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