Lanie Gardner on new album, Grand Ole Opry debut, and working with Mick Fleetwood in Confession Cube

Lanie Gardner on new album, Grand Ole Opry debut, and working with Mick Fleetwood in Confession Cube

What was your favorite thing about attending the ACM Awards? Um, well, I got stopped a couple times. No one knew who I was there. It was great. Hey y’all, I’m Laney Gardner and I’m answering questions from the Confession Cube with Page Six. All right, here we go. If you could steal one song from another country artist’s catalog and make it your own, which one would it be? Probably The House That Built Me by Miranda Lambert and make it make it my own. I feel like I connected. did so much to that song. I don’t know. It would have been fun to I think it’d be fun to kind of make my own little version of it if I haven’t already. All right, you’re on tour with Gavin Acock. What’s the most chaotic or funny behind the scenes tour moment so far? The other night they were actually uh they call it like the milk toss or something and they take a jug of milk and they’ll go out into like the parking lot or something and they just like launch the milk at each other and the first one who basically busts the milk everywhere over the concrete or wherever they’re throwing it um loses. So Gavin gave it one good throw and uh the trajectory was very off and it almost hit like all the bystanders just watching this happen. So we all ran for our lives and that’s when it busted. It was fun. You had a song chasing the wind on the Twister soundtrack along with some of the biggest names in country right now. What was it like being a part of that so early in your career? I think it was a little bit of imposter syndrome seeing my name up there with all of these, you know, people that I grew up listening to. I felt very honored to be on uh the soundtrack with with all of these artists. I I look up to them a lot. So it was it was pretty cool. What’s the biggest difference between making a songwriter’s diary and faded polaroids? I think a songwriter’s diary for me was something that I could kind of use as a rock as I continued on into the music industry of just remembering why I started writing in the first place, why I began music. And then fade of polaroids is kind of just everything that I have already gone through that I guess kind of explains why I need something like a songwriter’s diary to kind of go back to and and remember. Fade of Polaroids is is definitely something that I am able to I don’t know see the milestones that has happened in my career so far and also it’s collaborative. The first the first album wasn’t and so yeah that’s kind of one of the differences between the two albums. How did growing up in the Appalachin Mountains shape the sound and storytelling we hear on your music today? I think it really shows in the first album that I had. It’s it’s kind of more stripped back. Um something that’s more songwriteresque songs that you would hear on you know the front porch um during a sunny day or a rainy day or you know a night around the bonfire. this next album that kind of comes out. It’s kind of just everything else that I grew up with the, you know, top 20 countdowns and the uh blueg grass, you know, on, you know, during nights at the festival or at the road festival or driving around rocking out with my friends, driving down back roads. My tastes are kind of across the board, I think, because of that. Just growing up with so many different genres depending on what we were doing that night or that morning or that weekend or whatever. What’s the most surreal pinch me moment you’ve had in your career so far? I did the WWE national anthem. That was a very much a pinch me moment. It was almost a nightmare going up there cuz it was terrifying in front of so many people. That was my first stadium I had ever been in front of and uh it was a really special moment for me and my family was there too. It was a special moment for all of us. I grew up singing the national anthem, you know. It was it was pretty cool. What album or artist are you listening to on repeat right now? Interestingly enough, I didn’t really dig into Fleetwood Mack when I first put the cover out. I knew who they were and I was a big fan of them and my dad kind of raised us up on Fleetwood Mac, but it was kind of like a slew of different people. It was AC/DC, it was Fleetwood Mac, it was Journey, it was all those all those uh bands and and artists. But I kind of just took the time to really dig into Fleetwood Mac and dig into Stevie Nicks here recently and I just have not been able to stop listening to their music. What was the very first thing you did when you found out you’d hit number one with Thomas Red on the hot 30 weekend countdown? That was crazy. I can’t remember who it was that told me. It was my mom and dad really keep up with a lot of this stuff. They’re kind of almost getting to it before my team does, you know, before we do cuz they’re just they’re so supportive and and they are constantly just looking for, you know, big things that are happening. The very first thing I did, I guess, when I hit number one was call and talk to mom because I think I missed her call whenever she first called to tell me. And so she texted me and so I just called her and we kind of just reminisced, you know, what kind of got me here and got my music here today. So, um, yeah, that’s what I did. I called mom. You’ve got a track with Mick Fleetwood on drums. What was it like working with such a legend? So whenever dream the dreams cover came out I actually had Mick Fleetwood reach out and he said that he would like to do a song and over the years it just never really happened since the dreams cover. Um and then I wrote High Dive in and I don’t know I kind of just shot my shot there and asked him if he wanted to be a part of it and uh he said yes and that’s it. I’ve never met him in person. The only time I’ve kind of technically met him was over Zoom and he had this just beautiful zen oasis behind him and uh talking to him was just mind expanding. He was really really cool. Dream collaboration time. If you could do it with any artist, living or not, who would you pick? Miranda Lambert. Always. Always Miranda. Always going to stay the same probably until until we’ve done it. This one’s about you. Um, your relationship with Fisher Perry always makes fans smile. What’s something funny or unexpected about him that people wouldn’t know? Oh, he sings. Yeah, don’t even do that. He sings. He loves music. He plays guitar. Uh, that literally every time he’s at my house, he’s picking up my guitar and he’s sitting there and he’s learning his little indie songs. He loves indie music. Um, the list goes on. There’s a lot of things that are secret about Fischer Perry, but he does sing and he’s he’s good at it. We sing together sometimes. You’ve been named a Recording Academy artist to watch. What does that honor mean to you? Honestly, gaining the respect of other people in the music industry is important to me. Mainly because all of them have such a passion with their art to be to be named an artist to watch. I think the the respect aspect of it is just it’s it’s nice. What was your favorite thing about attending the ACM awards? Um well, I got stopped a couple times. No one knew who I was there. It was great. Um so, so I was, you know, with the credentials and things I had to, you know, show them. Um Ella Langley and Parker Mcllum were just like passing me, passing me by. I’m like, “This is supposed to get back here.” Whatever. It was really nice. It’s really fun. Oh, wait. A favorite thing? Definitely not that. Um, favorite thing. My mom was there. My mom was there and she and and she was she was there and she had so much fun and it was fun seeing her experience that for the first time and see some of her favorite artists as well. And also Miranda Lambert performed so that was also awesome. How did it feel when you got the call that you’d be stepping onto the Grand Opry stage for the first time? It actually wasn’t a call. I I went to um Dallas, Texas. We were in Dallas, Texas for the ACM brunch. And I had just performed for my label and business partners. And I um they I had recognized them from going to the Opry before and meeting some of the Opry family, which was really great. And they um they came on stage and and asked me if I would come and play the the Grand Old Opry. And um of course I said yes and then uh a couple weeks later I crushed my finger on a boat and had to move the date about a couple months later. So that was uh that was fun. It was really special to me cuz it was something that my grandfather has had always wanted to do and um his dream basically brought me to Nashville. And so I immediately started planning what kind of memorial we would do um for him for the Grand Opry stage. And so I played his guitar and I brought a Polaroid of him into the circle and uh of him holding the guitar that I was playing um to have him come into the circle with me. So he ended up making it into the circle after all. So that was very very special for me and my family. That was Confession Cube with Page Six. My new album, Fate of Polaroids, is out now. Go give it a listen. And I’d love to see y’all out on the road. So come catch me live on the Neoto tour. I’ll see y’all soon. Bye.

Lanie Gardner stopped by the Page Six Studio to answer burning questions from the Confession Cube. She spilled on everything from Miranda Lambert songs she wishes were hers, to Gavin Adcock’s chaotic post-show milk-throwing contests, to the surreal moment she sang the national anthem at the WWE Royal Rumble. Lanie also shared what it was like working with Mick Fleetwood, how the Appalachian Mountains shaped her songwriting, and the special tribute she made to her grandpa during her Grand Ole Opry debut. Watch the full video for more confessions, career milestones, and all the behind-the-scenes fun leading up to her new album “Faded Polaroids.”

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