Doing their best Willie and Waylon. Last week, Cody Johnson headlined two sold-out concerts at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas during the NFR festivities, where he had a very special guest join him onstage. Lainey Wilson surprised the crowd (she also played a headlining concert during the NFR) where they sang the country classic, "Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys." Of course, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings made "Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" a hit in 1978, when it went #1 on the radio charts. It was originally written by Ed Bruce with his wife Patsy Bruce and recorded by Ed, and featured on his 1976 self-titled album. Chris LeDoux also covered it for his 1976 album, Songbook of the American West. Obviously, though, it was made most popular by Waylon and Willie, when they covered it for their 1978 duets album Waylon & Willie. It became an instant classic, peaking at #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart later that same year, in addition to reaching the #42 spot on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. The pair won a Grammy award for the duet in 1979 for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Johnson has covered it himself, releasing a live rendition of a solo cover earlier this year from his performance at the ACM Awards in 2023, where he notably changed the lyrics to: “Mamas don’t let your cowboys grow up to be babies” He's so real for that... These two together just makes so much sense, and they did a great job with this duet. Check it out: @ttbrown9Cody Johnson with Lainey Wilson in Las Vegas♬ original sound - TT Brown Another angle: @doodledum14 CoJo’s last concert of the year! He went out with a bang ? #cojo #lasvegas #fyp #laineywilson ♬ original sound - kariyannah._16 I would love to see these two team up in an official capacity some day, because they both have such strong voices and a natural connection in terms of their background in the western world. Cody has said before that Lainey is on board to record a duet of Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn’s "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man," so maybe their just teasing us and it's already been recorded (I don't have any insider information, just a hunch)... “I’m going duck hunting with her boyfriend Duck [Devlin “Duck” Hodges]. I guess that’s how he got his name, because he’s really into hunting. I heard Loretta Lynn’s ‘Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man.’ I called Lainey and said we should record that song together, and she agreed. But we haven’t done it yet.” They've both been out on extensive headlining tours this year and released their own albums, and I'm sure will be back out on the road in 2025, so we'll likely be hearing a lot more from them next year. Lainey hosted the CMA Awards last month, where she took home the Female Vocalist of the Year award, and Cody won Album of the Year for Leather. "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZTwjljm5qc

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