Lainey Wilson's Fiancé Reacts To Country Star's Extended 'Whirlwind' Record
By Kelly Fisher
August 20, 2025
Lainey Wilson’s fiancé is gearing up for the reigning Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year’s extended Whirlwind record.
Wilson shared a new sneak peek of a soon-to-debut track that appears on the project, “Peace, Love, and Cowboys,” on Instagram on Tuesday evening (August 19). Devlin “Duck” Hodges, who popped the question earlier this year, wrote in the comments: “They don’t even know how good this deluxe is 🔥”
The 19-track Whirlwind deluxe edition is due to arrive on Friday (August 22), one year after the original studio album’s release. Wilson said in a previous interview with iHeartCountry that she’ll “continue to push it and level up” with the new tracks, which also include “Bell Bottoms Up” — a nod to Wilson’s bar of the same name in Nashville, Tennessee — and “Somewhere Over Laredo.” She debuted the Wizard of Oz-inspired ballad earlier this year.
“These songs that are gonna be on the deluxe, they were all written after Whirlwind was out, so it was kind of like the next step, or what life I lived right after Whirlwind was released,” Wilson told iHeartCountry. “And so, it was cool to be able to tap into that, and also, it’s cool to be able to share that side, too, with the fans. And I’m really, really proud of this. I mean, I’m partial, but somehow, I feel like we continue to push it and level up, and I feel like even the people that I write songs with, they’re feeling the same way. We’re like, ‘OK, we really did it with this one,’ and we’re like, ‘OK, well how does it get better than this?’ And then it somehow does. But that’s a good place. That’s a very good place to be in.”