Raised as a Baptist in Greenville, South Carolina, Lane discovered music as an outlet for creative expression at an early age, dropping out of school at 17 to move to Los Angeles. She then relocated to New York, and finally settled in Nashville to launch her songwriting career. She has released four albums —her 2011 debut Walk of Shame , followed by All or Nothin' (produced by Dan Auerbach),Highway Queen, and Denim & Diamonds (produced by Josh Homme). Aside from steadily releasing new music of her own and touring the world, she was featured on "Breaking Up Slowly" on Lana Del Rey's 2021 album Chemtrails Over the Country Club . Most recently, Nikki co-wrote Koe Wetzel’s single “Dollar and a Bottle” off of his upcoming album The Night Champion. Other artist collaborators include Sierra Ferrell, Brent Cobb, Koe Wetzel, Maggie Antone, Lukas Nelson, Kashus Culpepper.