Previous Thanksgiving halftime show performers include Reba McEntire, Randy Travis, Clint Black, LeAnn Rimes, Toby Keith, Sheryl Crow, Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Thomas Rhett, Kane Brown, Luke Combs, Dolly Parton and more.

Wilson will take the stage months after releasing her highly-anticipated new album, Whirlwind. The 14-track record follows Wilson’s Grammy Award-winning Bell Bottom Country. Whirlwind includes “Country’s Cool Again,” “Good Horses” featuring Miranda Lambert, “Whirlwind,” “Call A Cowboy,” “Hang Tight Honey,” “4x4xU,” and more.

“Whirlwind is kind of the Western sister of Bell Bottom Country,” Wilson said in a statement when her album arrived. “Since that album, I have gotten to experience so many new things and meet folks from different walks of life. Because of that, I’ve become a better songwriter, and I have more understanding. I feel like I’ve truly stepped into what it is that I’m called to be doing. Ironically, I found my path within all the craziness—and that’s the whirlwind.”

Tim Palmer

This is fascinating to me as my wife and I traveled to northern California last summer and saw the giant sequoias.