When a grieving Anne Wilson mustered the strength needed to sing at her older brother’s funeral in 2017, the Kentucky teenager knew right then what her life’s calling would be: to worship the Lord through song. Wilson went to work, cultivating a fusion of CCM and country music that made her 2022 debut, My Jesus, a Christian-music blockbuster, earning her plenty of Nashville buzz. The singer-songwriter’s anthems exude vulnerability and defiance equally. While she speaks tenderly to matters of the soul and salvation, Wilson is also a tough-as-nails Kentuckian proudly extolling rural American values.