Hardy says he designed Lainey Wilson a gun to commemorate their hit duet, “Wait In The Truck,” but he says he hasn’t got to give it to her just yet.
“So many people know about this already! I haven’t given it to her yet so I can’t talk about it,” he said with a laugh backstage at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium on Friday (June 9), ahead of his headlining CMA Fest set. “I don’t want her to know what it is. But somebody already told her that it’s a gun.
“I think it was a special moment for country music, to have a murder ballad,” he explains, “and kinda proves that the songs that country music was built on can still survive today. There’s something really special about all that, and I just wanted to commemorate that.”
Hardy says he appreciates and values gifts with sentimental value. He wears a chain around his neck that has a small rectangular pendant with the word “Dangerous” etched on it.
“This was given to me by Ernest as a gift from the Dangerous Tour,” he relates, referring to Morgan Wallen‘s record-breaking 2022 tour, where he and Ernest both performed as supporting acts. It’s something that I’ll have for the rest of my life, because I can look at something and remember all the great times and all the great things that happened because of that,” Hardy goes on to say. “And that’s one of the reasons why I’m giving [Wilson]… this gift she hasn’t received yet.”
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Source: KEZJ
