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Jackson Dean Calls Upcoming Tour with Lainey Wilson A "Full Circle Moment," Talks Luke Combs' & Morgan Wallen's Mainstream Success & More | CMA Awards 2023
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11/9/2023
Jackson Dean chatted with Billboard on the red carpet of the 2023 CMA Awards.
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00:00
Hey, we're here with Jackson Dean.
00:02
How's it going tonight?
00:03
- It's going good.
00:04
It's starting to get a little lively in here, I think.
00:07
People are filing in.
00:08
I was early.
00:10
I've been walking around for a while, so.
00:12
But yeah, I'm feeling good, feeling good.
00:14
- Do you like getting here early before the madness?
00:17
What's your strategy for award shows?
00:19
- You just kind of ease on into it, you know.
00:23
I don't like really waiting in lines,
00:25
so I just kind of walked in and were like,
00:27
"Hey, we're here, just come and say hi."
00:30
You know, yeah, I don't need to be in,
00:33
I run hot enough as is, you know,
00:36
a lot of people in one place, you know.
00:40
- So we need to talk about,
00:41
you're going out on tour with Lainey Wilson.
00:42
Congratulations.
00:44
Tell me how that happened.
00:45
Have you met her?
00:46
What's that relationship like?
00:47
- Yeah, I've played a couple shows here and there
00:50
over the last couple of years with Lainey.
00:53
Her drummer and her guitar player
00:56
actually grew up about 30 minutes away from me.
01:00
One of my first gigs playing live,
01:03
like and getting paid for it,
01:05
was like, they gave me 60 bucks to go open the show
01:07
in the bar that I started in.
01:10
So it's a little full circle moment.
01:14
It's pretty cool.
01:15
Her dude, Duck, is really awesome.
01:17
I met him probably two years ago,
01:20
or not two years ago.
01:21
They definitely hadn't told anybody
01:23
they was together yet.
01:24
But yeah, he's great.
01:27
And Lainey's a complete badass.
01:29
I just watched her do Strawberry Wine last night at BMI.
01:33
She's absolutely killing it.
01:37
She's one-two this morning.
01:39
And she's up for another seven.
01:43
So it's just like, oh my God, go get it, you know.
01:47
But yeah, everywhere that we're not going with her next year
01:51
we're going on our own headline tour
01:53
for 11 weeks, starting Q1.
01:56
I think we're scooting over for a couple shows in Australia
02:01
with her as well.
02:02
I think they just got re-racked this morning.
02:07
Probably announcing tomorrow.
02:08
- All right, busy, very busy year ahead.
02:11
So Lainey's tour is called Country's Cool Again,
02:13
which I love.
02:14
Tell me why is that a fitting title for you?
02:17
Do you believe that to be true?
02:18
Are you seeing what we're seeing
02:19
with the sort of mainstream moment
02:22
for country music right now?
02:23
- I think it always was.
02:26
I just don't think it always was to the masses, you know.
02:28
I think a lot of what got put in front of public eye
02:32
was not us, you know.
02:34
And I think Combs and Morg and Lainey,
02:38
and they've been making some serious noise in the world
02:43
and that's awesome.
02:46
That's nothing but good for the rest of us, you know.
02:50
It's, it never wasn't cool, you know.
02:55
But yeah, everybody, sure I've seen a lot of people
03:00
that just want to throw on a cowboy hat twice a year.
03:02
And you know, you look at the sweat stains in this one,
03:05
it ain't a twice a year hat, you know.
03:07
It's, yeah, I mean, it's fitting, I guess,
03:14
but I'm just happy to be playing shows with her.
03:18
- Right, totally.
03:19
And then when you think about tonight,
03:21
all of the people that will be here,
03:22
do you have some friends that you're excited to bump into?
03:25
- I saw Mitch and Meg, the Tenpenny's, I saw them.
03:32
I think Humphrey's right behind me.
03:34
Might run into Lainey.
03:38
I saw Jelly walking out in the parking lot.
03:42
He and I walked out of BMI at the same time last night.
03:46
- Yeah.
03:47
- But yeah, I mean, oh, Mack and, Mack McAnally and Kenny.
03:53
- Yes.
03:54
- That's gonna be one to watch tonight.
03:57
I'm excited for that.
03:58
That's gonna be really good.
03:59
- A tribute.
04:00
- Yeah, that's gonna be real good.
04:02
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