What Lainey Wilson did after the wind briefly shut down Stagecoach

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Lainey Wilson didn’t look excessively disquieted astir the precocious winds that temporarily unopen down Stagecoach connected Saturday night.

Headlining the festival’s main signifier aft an hour-long hold — during which fans were ordered to evacuate Indio’s Empire Polo Club earlier being allowed backmost successful — Wilson looked retired astatine the assemblage successful beforehand of her and said of the unplanned break: “I anticipation y’all sat successful your cars and drank immoderate tequila.”

The whoops crossed the tract suggested that might’ve been what happened.

Only the 3rd pistillate to header Stagecoach successful the past 5 years, Wilson offered a tight, punchy showcase of the riff-heavy country-rock that’s made her 1 of Nashville’s biggest stars (after a decade-long come-up successful which she’s said she lived successful a camper trailer).

“Can’t Sit Still” and “Wildflowers and Wild Horses” were swaggering and Stones-y; “Country’s Cool Again” rode a funky down-home groove. To capable the large signifier — it evoked a benignant of godforsaken oasis with a glittering horseshoe and a mates of prop cacti — Wilson brought on a horn conception and inheritance singers who turned “Dreamcatcher” into a psychedelic roots-soul fantasia.

Not agelong into the show, Wilson welcomed Little Big Town and Riley Green for an appealingly sloppy rendition — implicit with drinks successful integrative cups — of Merle Haggard’s “I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink.” Then she fto Green, whose scheduled show was scotched due to the fact that of the wind, instrumentality astir to bash his “I Wish Grandpas Never Died.” (Also called disconnected Saturday was Journey’s acceptable connected the Mustang stage.)

Wilson’s lone different impermanent was the small miss she ushered onstage and pronounced “cowgirl of the night” during “Things a Man Oughta Know.” After that came the singer’s dreamiest hit, “Somewhere Over Laredo,” and an particularly sultry instrumentality connected “Watermelon Moonshine,” the nostalgia-drunk emotion opus from 2023 that’s astir apt inactive her finest moment.