<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Today, Apple music unveils “I Would If I Could,” performed by Grammy-nominee and CMA’s recently crowned Entertainer of the Year, <a title="Lainey Wilson" href="https://stubhub.prf.hn/click/camref:1100ljXyr/pubref:WPSLaineyW/ar:CMNBAutoLink/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Flainey-wilson-tickets%2F">Lainey Wilson</a>, as the fifth release of its Lost &; Found program, which spotlights unreleased tracks written by some of the best songwriters in Nashville and re-recorded by today’s biggest artists, all in Spatial Audio.</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I Would If I Could” was originally written in 1996 by award-winning songwriters Skip Ewing and Dean Dillon, in what was their only collaboration together. On an upcoming episode of <em>Lost &; Found Radio with Lori McKenna</em> on Apple Music Country, Dean Dillon recalls “Skip and I had never written before, I don&#8217;t know who had the melody or who had the idea, but when we finished, I thought we had a great song. There was more to it than a lot of other stuff I&#8217;ve written, but for whatever reason, and you know this yourself, it happens a lot. They just get pitched a couple times and that&#8217;s it. You never hear about them again. And then somebody somewhere dug this out of the trash can somewhere.” Similarly, Skip Ewing tells Lori McKenna about finding out <a title="Lainey Wilson" href="https://stubhub.prf.hn/click/camref:1100ljXyr/pubref:WPSLaineyW/ar:CMNBAutoLink/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Flainey-wilson-tickets%2F">Lainey Wilson</a> was going to record their demo, saying, “I was stunned by who had decided this was the song for them, because I adore her. She&#8217;s got kind of a no-nonsense, real earthy space to her.”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a title="Lainey Wilson" href="https://stubhub.prf.hn/click/camref:1100ljXyr/pubref:WPSLaineyW/ar:CMNBAutoLink/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Flainey-wilson-tickets%2F">Lainey Wilson</a> explains why she chose to record “I Would If I Could” on the upcoming episode of <em>Today’s Country Radio with Kelleigh Bannen</em>, saying, “When you listen to the first line of the song, it is classic… And it feels like a song that should already be a song. Two of the most incredible songwriters that have ever existed. I look up to them a whole lot. And I wanted to record something that was done a long time ago, that still stood the test of time, is timeless; this melody.” Wilson enlisted frequent collaborator Aslan Freeman, telling Kelleigh Bannen, “I trusted to put this in his hands. I just knew that he could bring a little bit of that freshness without taking away from the melody of this song.”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As a songwriter at heart, Wilson embodies the spirit of the Lost &; Found program. Also a guest on the next episode of <em>Lost &; Found Radio</em>, she tells Apple Music, “This town is full of so many songs that will never see the light of day.” She adds: “I’m a songwriter first and foremost, and I want to be known as a songwriter, and I want to shine light on songs that for some crazy reason, didn&#8217;t see the light of day. Let&#8217;s bring it to the light.”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a title="Lainey Wilson" href="https://stubhub.prf.hn/click/camref:1100ljXyr/pubref:WPSLaineyW/ar:CMNBAutoLink/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Flainey-wilson-tickets%2F">Lainey Wilson</a>’s version of “I Would If I Could” drops tonight on Apple Music. Listen to Wilson’s version in Spatial Audio and check out the Lost &; Found space on Apple Music at <a href="http://apple.co/lostandfound" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">apple.co/lostandfound</a>.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Tune in and listen to <a title="Lainey Wilson" href="https://stubhub.prf.hn/click/camref:1100ljXyr/pubref:WPSLaineyW/ar:CMNBAutoLink/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Flainey-wilson-tickets%2F">Lainey Wilson</a>’s full conversations with Kelleigh Bannen and Lori McKenna this Friday on <a href="http://apple.co/am-country" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple Music Country</a>. ;</p>