Country singer-songwriter Jenna Paulette drives a white Ford F-150 pickup truck, a gift from her cattle-rancher grandfather when he retired from driving. “He called me and said, ‘Hey, sug, I got a 2010 F-150 with sixty thousand miles on it, and I was wondering if you’d drive it for me,’ ” the native Texan, who grew up in Lewisville, recalls. “I still drive that truck to this day; I’ll never get rid of it. It keeps me connected to him and the pride I have in what he built. He always paid cash for those trucks, never owed anybody anything, and drove them off the lot, used them, and then gave them away.”
In the music video for Paulette’s 2018 song “F-150,” she rides in that same white truck alongside a handsome cowboy, winningly scruffy and wearing a blue work shirt. As he shifts and steer