1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: M oh Yeah, welcomed Episode three twelve with Lacey K. Booth. 2 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,559 Speaker 1: I think you will love hearing from Lacey K Booth one. 3 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: There is a buzz about her as a new artist 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: in town that you're rarely hear about. Luckily, for me, 5 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: I've known her for a couple of years because I'm 6 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,280 Speaker 1: mentored on American Idol. She was one of my favorites. 7 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: Walker Burrows, who's still with me and still performs in 8 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: The Raging Idiots. But I mean he just does that 9 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 1: because we asked him to come play piano. He doesn't 10 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: do that because he needs the work. But he was 11 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:35,839 Speaker 1: one of my favorites. Lazy K Booths one of my favorites. 12 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 1: But I'll play some of her music in a little bit, 13 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: but you'll you'll love hearing from her. Okay. Let's check 14 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: out the new music this week. At number five. Kane 15 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: Brown has a new song called One Mississippi. Here's a 16 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: clips three Whiskey Are You Baby Come? Gives Me a 17 00:00:54,320 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: Gael wi Gel. Anderson East has a new album called 18 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: Maybe We Never Die. I'm a big Anderson East fan. 19 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 1: It's good to hear new music from him. Here's a 20 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 1: new song called hood in my car. Who we Are? 21 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: He s right? Kind of space A g Anderson East hump. 22 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,960 Speaker 1: I mean in the past it's been acoustic, rough, gritty. 23 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:46,759 Speaker 1: He's got, He's got. Yeah. Maggie Rose has a new 24 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: album out called Have a Seat. Here is a new 25 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: song called are We There Yet? Maggie's so good you 26 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: guys check out her new album Have a Seat. Oh. 27 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: Keith Urban has a new song out called Wild Hearts. 28 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: Here's a clip of that spot Bis goes down to 29 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: the wild cars and all of the wild hearts, just 30 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: like Man and Runaway June. They have a new EP 31 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: called Backstory, so Runaway June's EP. And here's a new 32 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 1: song called Forgot About That but the second and I 33 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 1: Forgot about Get Me, I forgot get albums out. Martina 34 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: has the greatest hits album Lord is putting out. Solar 35 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:51,639 Speaker 1: Power star Jill Simpson has a new album I'll called 36 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: The Ballad of Dot and Juanita or is it Dude? 37 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: It's dude right? It spelled weird? Yeah? Yeah, The Ballad 38 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: of Dude to Juanita. Um, all good things, I hope 39 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 1: and hell. Switch Foot has a new album out today. 40 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: How about that? Remember switch Foot dare you to move, Dar, 41 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: you to move. There's a jam back. We were mental live, 42 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 1: we were meant to live, sash can we last summer? 43 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: All right, a couple of things, Eddie. Now we're gonna 44 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: talk in a second about artists who discovered other artists, 45 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:26,399 Speaker 1: and you'll hear from Lacey K. Booth. Pretty cool, Thank 46 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: you guys for hanging out. There was a really cool 47 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 1: article about popular musicians who were discovered by other popular musicians. 48 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: And so I'll give you the person. See if you 49 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: can identify who discovered them. Okay, some of these you 50 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: may know. Who discovered Travis Scott. Who's Travis Scott? Okay, 51 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: that'd be a tough one. Freddie, Yes, uh t I 52 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: t I heard Travis Scott's song lights Love Sick and 53 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: decided to meet with him. Freestyled over Animal, signed with 54 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: Ties label. I mean Travis Scott's basically the I mean 55 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: he has McDonald's Top three the biggest hip hop artists 56 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: right now? Yeah yeah, right, we say, top three, top three, 57 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: top five, Pastro Pastro World, huge album. Jamie Fox helped 58 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: ed Sharon started his career. Sharon came to Fox's radio 59 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: show in Los Angeles and Jamie Fox was a fan 60 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: of his music, and he allowed Sharing to crash on 61 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: his couch for six weeks. Wow. He also took it 62 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: your into a large open mic night, where he got 63 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: a standing ovation. That's crazy. How do you think someone 64 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: like that? You don't you help other people? Okay, you 65 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: just can't carry it on? Yeah, that's how you constantly 66 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,039 Speaker 1: are like, thank you, but you help other people. That's how. 67 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: Who discovered Nicki Minaj? Oh, Nicki Minaj would probably be um, yeah, um, 68 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: what's her name? Low Wine did not not what's her name? 69 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: Low Wayne discovered Nicki Minaj. One Direction discovered five Seconds 70 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 1: a Summer on YouTube. I figured you struggle with that 71 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: one because you really would thank you, thank you for 72 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: sparing me on that. You know about the five sauce? 73 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: You don't know about that? Five doesn't want os? Does it? Yeah? 74 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 1: What ss Seconds of Summer? Yeah? Yeah yeah? Um? What 75 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: about Charlie Pooth who discovered him? Okay, okay, Charlie Pooth, 76 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: I'm only one call. Let's go with um. Harry Styles 77 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,559 Speaker 1: really Ellen discovered Charlie Pooth on YouTube and then signed 78 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,799 Speaker 1: him to her label. He later moved to Atlantic Records, 79 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: and then it's been that one or um, it's hard 80 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: for me to sing one of the plane. Um, I 81 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: was about to see it. There it is, that's it, 82 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: this is this was a big one. It's been Oh yeah, 83 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: that's good. I guess I do like a lot of 84 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: his songs. Charlie Pooth, Yeah, Scooter Braun discovered Justin Bieber, 85 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: but Usher is the one who made him as protege. 86 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: Really Fallout Boy discovered Panic at the disco? Who discovered Eminem? 87 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: Jay z mm hmm. Do you know the story? Kid Rock? 88 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: Eminem was on a radio show, Mike, you can fact 89 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: check me on this, because I'm just going from memory here. 90 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 1: Emmine was on a radio show freestyling and Dr Dre 91 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: heard him. Dr Dre did, Oh, that's right, that's right, 92 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: I remember them doing that. My name is There's another story. 93 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: An Interscope Records intern saw Eminem perform at the rap 94 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 1: Olympics and then passed the CD along to Jimmy Jimmy 95 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 1: Jimmy Levine, who played it for Dr Dre. Blah blah blah. 96 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: The story I heard is not that one. That's that's 97 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 1: probably the real one, the one you even hear, the 98 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 1: one of the radio you haven't heard that I thought 99 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: he discovered the tape and then he went back and 100 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: found him from that maybe maybe the one I saw 101 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:49,479 Speaker 1: is in Oh yeah. Ninety seven, Eminem appeared on a 102 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 1: radio show called The wake Up Show. Dr dre heard 103 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: him freestyling, see there are two stories out. That's the 104 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: one that I knew, but that one could be fake, 105 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 1: because that's a better one. Have you ever interviewed Eminem? No? No, 106 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: but I had a friend who did a talk show 107 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: with him once I keep my friend's name out of this, 108 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: and he goes, yeah, I did talk show him was 109 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: a musical guest, and he's a real dick. Really that's 110 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: a good because I expect him to be you want 111 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: him to be. I was like, I don't need him 112 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: be in you know, the person he doesn't portray you 113 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: don't want to be like, all right, my name is Marshall. 114 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: And yeah, he wasn't mean, he's just buying. He just 115 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 1: wouldn't want to talk to anybody. Number two who discovered 116 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: Lady Gaga, Oh, Bradley Cooper con Sorry Eddie and then 117 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: Drake discovered The Weekend. I was talking with a friend 118 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: yesterday and he goes, hey, are you a fan of 119 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: the Weekend and I said no. He said, do you 120 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: not like him? I said, no, don't carry the way. Well, 121 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: his songs come on and I'm like, I like that song, 122 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: But I don't know anybody who just goes I love 123 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: the Weekend. I can't get enough of the Weekend. People 124 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 1: who like the Weekend when his music plays. But well, 125 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: you when the Weekend puts out new music, are you 126 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: like I gotta hear the new Weekend? No? No, But 127 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: usually when he puts out in new music and it's 128 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: on the radio, I know it's the Weekend. Oh it's great, 129 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: that's kind of cool. Yes, what he does is awesome, 130 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: But I'm just not a fan. Nor do I know 131 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 1: people who were like, he's our top three artists. Yeah, 132 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: and probably one Like I think as time goes on 133 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: and you start looking at like who played the super Bowl, 134 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: He's gonna stick out. I think later on in life 135 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 1: where it's just like who is that? Like? Who who? 136 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know. He has so many hits that 137 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: everyone's legends, legends, legends, legends, and then the Weekend just 138 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: snuck in there. He has so many hits though, like 139 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: his streaming numbers are crazy. Okay, there you go, We're 140 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: gonna talk to Lacey Kate Booth coming up in just 141 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: a second. It's good to see you. It's to get 142 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: up on the microphone. There. It's weird. I was talking 143 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: to um who texted me about you the other day. 144 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: Let me look at my text here. Someone that really 145 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: like admire texted me and was like, hey, have you 146 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 1: heard of this girl? Oh my gosh, hold on, because 147 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: oh it was Dan Huff. So Dan Huff text me 148 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: and goes, hey, have you heard of Lacey k Booth? 149 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: And he sent me like a picture and a link, 150 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 1: and I was like, heard of her? I was like, 151 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 1: I knew her before you knew her. And so he 152 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: was like, oh man. And Dan doesn't often first of all, 153 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: he never asked me to play anything, but he will go, hey, 154 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: this person is like special, and he doesn't say that 155 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 1: very often. And he did message me and say, yeah, 156 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: there's something different about this oh my god, which and 157 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 1: he's like, how do you know her? I was like, well, 158 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 1: how long ago were we on idol together? Two years? 159 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 1: Was it toteen? So however long ago? I was like, 160 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: she was like one of the only people I ever 161 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 1: just wanted to win. I would ever be like, all right, 162 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 1: here's what you need to do to just move forward 163 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: in the show you a bit, so, well, let's let's 164 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: just rewind a little bit. And I act like I 165 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: know nothing about you. Okay, So you grew up in Texas, 166 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: so I didn't know that. I guess, um, well, how 167 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: long have you been here in Nashville now? Um? I 168 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:57,719 Speaker 1: moved September aftereen after I was an idol, so two 169 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: years almost years. So you've lived here for two years 170 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: and a lot of that was the COVID time. Though 171 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: what did you do while living here? Because you didn't 172 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: really have any any sort of roots yet when you 173 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:09,559 Speaker 1: were here and it's you know, the good thing, I'm 174 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 1: moving to Nashville as you meet a lot of people 175 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 1: quick that that wasn't able to happen for you. Not really, 176 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 1: I met a lot of people virtually. So I when 177 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: I first moved here, and I got into a lot 178 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: of good rooms with writers, and um, it was my 179 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 1: first experience ever co writing, and uh it was amazing. 180 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 1: I wrote by myself my whole life, so just co writing, 181 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: um with different people. And then during the pandemic, virtually 182 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: I got to have a lot of co writes, I 183 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:36,679 Speaker 1: wrote over three hundred songs during the pandemic. Did you 184 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: write with humans before COVID? Were you here a little 185 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: bit before COVID a little bit? So you did get 186 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: some of that? I did? Yeah, I did. Um. I 187 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: remember talking maybe it was your mom. I was with 188 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: you and your mom we were and did they move 189 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,680 Speaker 1: with you? Were they going to though? When I was 190 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: was that? And I was like, you were like nose. 191 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: I remember telling your mom that it was like I'm 192 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: going to move. I'm like, know, you have to let 193 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: it go by yourself. And it was the best thing. 194 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: It really has been the best thing. I've grown up 195 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: a lot. So what happens you move here? After American Idol, 196 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 1: which you I believe we're top five? You know what 197 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 1: number were you? Do you remember five? Because it kind 198 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 1: of doesn't matter once the shows over does't matter if 199 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:18,439 Speaker 1: you're one, two, five, It matters what you do after that. 200 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: You leave, you go home to Texas for a minute, 201 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: for a minute, And did you know you were moving 202 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: to Nashville? No, I didn't. I knew I wanted to 203 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: go and you know, talk with some labels and and 204 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 1: ride a little bit. And so I came here for 205 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: about two weeks, and um, and had you know. I 206 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: stayed in a little temporary apartment and then I realized 207 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 1: I love co writing and I loved Nashville, so I 208 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 1: came here for it was supposed to be just three 209 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: months in another temporary apartment and um, and then I 210 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: was like, no, I'm moving here. So you said you 211 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 1: love co writes because I'm assuming like most people, you 212 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: just wrote songs by yourself as a young kid. When 213 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 1: did you start to play music at all? And when 214 00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:58,319 Speaker 1: when did you pick up a guitar and start writing songs? 215 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: Nine years old? They who puts a guitar in your hand? 216 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,319 Speaker 1: Or how do you even become exposed to one? Well, 217 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 1: my dad, he was he's a Texas music artist, so 218 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 1: he Um, I've been around guitars and banjos and all 219 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: kinds of stuff my whole life. So I he taught 220 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 1: me my first three chords. And then at nine years old, 221 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:19,439 Speaker 1: I got a little baby, um ibanez, and I started 222 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: just playing and googling what chords were. I remember that 223 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 1: was part of the storyline that was on you was 224 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: like her dad's a Texas country artist and um, and 225 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,959 Speaker 1: you would play shows with him some right, would you 226 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: were you? Were you and your dad's super close or 227 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: was he gone a lot? He was gone a lot 228 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: throughout my whole childhood. And then around fifteen fourteen or fifteen, 229 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 1: he took me to Arkansas two um to record some 230 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 1: music and I recorded like four songs and then we 231 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 1: got really close, and um we stayed pretty close throughout 232 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: that time, and I opened for him in a bunch 233 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: of shows and played little guitar pools with him. That's 234 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: pretty cool. Is he teaching you as you're on the road. 235 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 1: Were you kind of taking lessons from him as well 236 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 1: about being an artist or at least watching kind of 237 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 1: what happens if you are an artist? How hard it 238 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: actually is exactly? Did you notice that when you're a teenager, 239 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: like you know, it's not like on TV where you're 240 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:14,680 Speaker 1: flying on your own jail exactly. I mean, it's it's 241 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:16,959 Speaker 1: a hard life to tour. And you would see this 242 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,439 Speaker 1: with your dad and he wanted you to do that, 243 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: you know, him and my mom and step dad all 244 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 1: told me to get a degree first, get it. So 245 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,320 Speaker 1: I was in college when I tried out for American Idols, 246 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 1: thirty hours away from my bachelor's degree. I remember you 247 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 1: not being there but being so close to it, and 248 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:40,079 Speaker 1: you went on, now you're not You're you're thirty, still 249 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,839 Speaker 1: thirty credit store, right, Yeah, and you're probably a lot 250 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,320 Speaker 1: more announced. But you can go back and get that anytime. 251 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: You really can't go back and get that anytime. You have, 252 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 1: you know, a window for you that that's really opening up. Um. 253 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: So what was the conversation like with your parents that Hey, 254 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: I want to move to Nashville without you? Oh my 255 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: mom cried and cried. Um, she well, she she knew 256 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:05,439 Speaker 1: that I wanted to move there eventually, but she thought 257 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: she would have me home for a couple of months. 258 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: In those three months that I came here and stayed 259 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 1: in the temporary apartment, I was like, I'm going to 260 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 1: get like an apartment for a year, and I just 261 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: never went home. I just moved in. Did you feel 262 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 1: like when you got to Nashville and you started to 263 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 1: be around other artists that we're making a career out 264 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: of this and they are all I mean, everybody's good here, 265 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: so good. Everybody's so good that you move here and 266 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: you're either so intimidated or you're so inspired because you 267 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 1: go I can be that good. You know, which where 268 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 1: did it fall with you? I think it was inspired 269 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: because people, you know, I would. I haven't been very 270 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: social in my whole life. Moving here has made me, 271 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: you know, more extroperted than I've ever been. But people 272 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 1: have welcomed me with open arms here, like so many people, 273 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 1: really really incredibly talented people, just super supportive and I'm 274 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: just inspired by everybody here. When you get here, do 275 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: you start to go to any little small, you know, 276 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: songwriter nights and playing or trying? Did that happen at 277 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: all with you? First? Um? I got to go to Bluebird, 278 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 1: my very first songwriter round, So that was just like 279 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 1: super intimidating. Yeah, did you play in the round where 280 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 1: you sit in the middle. Yeah, it's pretty tough because 281 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: I mean the people are sitting right on you there. 282 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: Oh it was. I was so nervous. But were you 283 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: more nervous that or performing in front of like six 284 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: million people on TV? I think I was more nervous 285 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: at that. Just that small, more small group of people 286 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: watching your every move and then playing original songs for 287 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: me has always been like do you okay playing original songs? 288 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: Are those all the songs I'm gonna play some of 289 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: the stuff from from your record here. Um, is this 290 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: all stuff that you've written since you came to Nashville? 291 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: Do you find that a lot of the stuff that 292 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:53,080 Speaker 1: you wrote before you got here wasn't as solid as 293 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: you thought it was once you started to get I 294 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: want to here's a little bit of you to you. 295 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: This is lazy k boo. I'm so husy sleeping the 296 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: samemikon sheet some cused. You don't know what I do. 297 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: You're down. Your name sounds like cam Mad, I'm at Camy. 298 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: I'm used to you. So when you when you make 299 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: this record, does your label try to go and take 300 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: all the other stuff down? Was there that effort where 301 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 1: like not like music? Yeah? Or is it still up? 302 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 1: It's still up? Oh yeah? Do you like it still 303 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: being up? Well? You know the songs now, I have 304 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 1: recorded that at Rose with studios in um, Texas and 305 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: they did a really great job. But the songs, I'm 306 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: just kind of like, So you like heartbreak, you like 307 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: the production? Yeah? But you can hear how you've graduated 308 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: in songwriting and vocals too. Yeah. What's it like to 309 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 1: go in front of these record guys like you? Like, 310 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:12,239 Speaker 1: did you have to go play in front of these 311 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: guys or do they just know what you sounded like? 312 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 1: And they're like, okay, we like you. I had to 313 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 1: go play for him. And this is a really funny 314 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 1: story because I went over Jimmy Harden's house, which is 315 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: the president of my label, along with Scott Brochetta, and Um. 316 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: Jimmy actually was having Christmas with Dan huff Um a 317 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 1: Christmas party, and Dan showed him a song of mine 318 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: and that's how the hookup happened. And UM, I went 319 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 1: over Jimmy's house and it was the whole radio team, 320 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: the whole team and Scott sitting in front of me, 321 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 1: and Um, he looked at me. I was playing a 322 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 1: song that was already really high for my but my voice, 323 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 1: and he looks at me. He said keep up and 324 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 1: I was like, okay, so but I keep up saying 325 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:49,440 Speaker 1: it in a hierarchy and he said keep up again. 326 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: I did it. I don't know how I hit those notes, 327 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 1: but I was like, oh, was that one of those 328 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: experiences were like all right, we're gonna sign you to 329 00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 1: a deal right then, or they like hey, that's great. 330 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:00,399 Speaker 1: Then you go about your life and call you back 331 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,160 Speaker 1: two weeks later and say we like you. They signed 332 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: me on the spot, which was very surprising, and they 333 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 1: said they never do that, but um, yeah, I cried 334 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 1: right in front all of them. So what did they 335 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:11,399 Speaker 1: tell you that meant to you? Like? I know what 336 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 1: it means to you, but when someone says I signed 337 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 1: you on the spot, like, what's different about your life 338 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:20,119 Speaker 1: and and what's different about your musical you know journey 339 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: from that day on, I don't know. I just felt 340 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 1: really surreal at the moment and I couldn't believe it. 341 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: But it also felt like home and it felt like 342 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 1: everything changed. It really did. Did they start to match 343 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 1: you with better songwriters or or put you in different 344 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 1: rooms or producers or dan? Like, what what what happened 345 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: that when they signed you? You're like, oh, this now 346 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 1: feels different. Well, when they signed me, it was January 347 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, the pain, So it 348 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: was like it didn't really feel different. But I mean 349 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: I got in rooms with you know, Hillary Lindsay and 350 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 1: old virtual rooms, so I felt like, you know, I 351 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:00,080 Speaker 1: started getting in rooms with incredible songwriters. Yes, but it 352 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: when you got here and it was pre pandemic, how 353 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:05,360 Speaker 1: did you get to how did you get cool rights? 354 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 1: Who was working that for you? Um? Red Light Rachel? Yeah, 355 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,879 Speaker 1: my cool manager in Autumn House from Red Light. So 356 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: they're they're working, they're finding your rooms. Did you find 357 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: how welcoming were they too? A girl who just moved 358 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,439 Speaker 1: here from Texas, who just came off American Idol. Did 359 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: you feel like they were kind of open arms with you? 360 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:26,719 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yes. And I couldn't believe. Like one 361 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: of my first rights was with Nathan Chapman and Emily 362 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: Landis and I walked in and Nathan has, you know, 363 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 1: his Grammy's on his piano, and I just think that's 364 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: the coolest thing. It was really surreal. But they really 365 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 1: welcome me with open arms. And that song we wrote 366 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: that first week I was here was Heard of Texas, 367 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 1: which was the north star of this whole project. I'll 368 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:48,400 Speaker 1: play some Heart of Texas. This is actually the last 369 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 1: track on the album, right on the eight Songs book, 370 00:19:55,280 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: God Say Cabs. I guess that's all when you say 371 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 1: that was the north star of the project. What do 372 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 1: you mean? When I wrote it? I had They were like, 373 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 1: what's your style of music? Like? What genre are you in? Country? 374 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 1: And I just blurted out dreaming country, and I just 375 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 1: totally made that up. But you know, they have dream 376 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 1: pop stuff, and so I thought that was a pretty 377 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 1: good idea of who I was as an artist, And um, 378 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 1: I just wanted this whole project to feel very dreaming country. 379 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 1: And I think that has a lot to do with 380 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,719 Speaker 1: me being influenced by Stevie Nicks and or Jones. Did 381 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:50,680 Speaker 1: you sing any Stevie Nicks on American Idol Dreams? Did you? Yeah? 382 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 1: I mean all that even speaking dreaming, all that feels 383 00:20:53,040 --> 00:21:01,679 Speaker 1: like a blur to me. Now, were you with walker 384 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: Hey's on the same sit where walker Borough is in 385 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 1: the same season? I mean, for me, that was my 386 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 1: favorite season. But like walker Borough still plays with me 387 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 1: and is like, right, isn't he like the nicest guy? 388 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,400 Speaker 1: And so is Emma Emma play at the she does. 389 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 1: Emma opened for me for an entire tour playing. I 390 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: would do stand up with theaters and she would open 391 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 1: for me. But yeah, that was a really good like 392 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,119 Speaker 1: group of people. And what's funny about like an American 393 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 1: Idol now is that people don't look at it like 394 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,479 Speaker 1: they used to. Used to come off that show. People like, oh, 395 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,360 Speaker 1: it's American Idol. Now people look at you, find any 396 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:35,640 Speaker 1: way possible to make any connection with people, build a platform, 397 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,919 Speaker 1: and then if you're good, come to town. We'll make 398 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 1: even better, right. I feel that way with a lot 399 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: of people, like Chase just one the show, and I 400 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:44,680 Speaker 1: was telling him same thing. I was telling you, you 401 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 1: have to move town. Ye Like, you may think that 402 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: you're gonna do what you're doing, but they're bad. They're 403 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 1: good and bad about idol is bad is once you're off, 404 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:56,440 Speaker 1: it goes away. Nobody gives crab anymore. But that's also 405 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: good because you're not pigeonholed as the Idol person. And 406 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 1: you'll have to do in he used for a bit, 407 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:02,360 Speaker 1: and people will ask you your first time around, they're 408 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,639 Speaker 1: gonna ask about American Idol, and you're gonna kind of 409 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: grit your teeth and be like, I really wouldn't want 410 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 1: to talk about American Idol. But you'll do it the 411 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 1: second time. You won't even be a thing anymore, you know, 412 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,160 Speaker 1: And that's what's especially if you're good, and you're really good, 413 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 1: and I always knew you were really good, and I 414 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 1: would always are, you know. It wasn't a lot of 415 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 1: people that I would genuinely care about. But I remember, 416 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,199 Speaker 1: you know you did. You helped me out a lot. 417 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 1: You've built my confidence in a lot of way because 418 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 1: I had somebody in my corner. You were somebody who 419 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 1: didn't know how good they were yet. And I remember 420 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: telling you that, like, you're so good. You have no 421 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 1: idea how good you are. And I didn't think you 422 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 1: would win because of the how the people vote on 423 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 1: that show and who votes um Lane one Lane one 424 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: Lane is a good looking dude, and you know the 425 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: people that are voting on that show, they're mostly looking 426 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 1: for for a young, good looking dude. I think we 427 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 1: knew that. But you came off and I was so 428 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: proud you moved here. And I was checking up on 429 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 1: and I was watching videos you were doing. I would 430 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: see him from Rachel. Rachel was because you know, I'm 431 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 1: a red light too. Did you know that I did? 432 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 1: So I was keeping up with you, and then I 433 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 1: saw you started to kind of, you know, make music, 434 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 1: and I listened to it, and I listen to anybody's 435 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 1: music because I never want to kind of be I 436 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 1: never want to like be the person that is giving 437 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 1: people advice. I don't want to be advice guy and 438 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 1: music yet, but I'm really proud that you're here, and 439 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 1: I think you're gonna do just awesome things. And I 440 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: saw you were doing a radio tour last week. I'm 441 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,960 Speaker 1: still doing radio tour virtually you are. That's how you know, 442 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 1: are you gonna do? You're gonna drive around and see 443 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 1: people eventually, I hope. So yeah, it was supposed to 444 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,879 Speaker 1: be like that, but with you know, COVID cases going up, 445 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:30,600 Speaker 1: when they start to spend money on you, you know 446 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:34,879 Speaker 1: they believe in you in this town because there. I mean, 447 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:36,959 Speaker 1: they could spend money in many different ways, but when 448 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:38,119 Speaker 1: they spend it on an artist and you have a 449 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:40,400 Speaker 1: team that will stab somebody to make it to get 450 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: a hit, that they will run someone over the car. 451 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 1: If I were standing in the way of some song 452 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 1: doings and they would run me over, both of them 453 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:55,400 Speaker 1: would would shoot me with a jet But so all 454 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 1: that said, like, do you feel like now you feel 455 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 1: mature enough and your songwriting and singing to actually go 456 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: out and do this thing on a on a major level. Yeah, 457 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 1: I do. And it feels really weird saying that, but 458 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,719 Speaker 1: I just feel really grateful. I feel like everything has 459 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: fallen into my lap. In place and and I don't, 460 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,919 Speaker 1: you know, really know how, but I'm just I'm very 461 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 1: very lucky and thankful. Were you good as a kid? 462 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,159 Speaker 1: Like were you doing in like seven year old? I 463 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: guess if you did it at nine? You did? But 464 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,640 Speaker 1: you know, I sing really nasally, like through my nose, 465 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 1: really bad, and so I didn't really discover my voice. 466 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 1: And I knew I couldn't belt like Carrie Underwood or 467 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 1: Martine McBride, and I thought that made me like suck 468 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 1: as an artist, but or a vocalist. And but after 469 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 1: you know, discovering Nora Jones and Cvnicks, I feel like, 470 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 1: if you're twelve or thirteen and you're singing like you are, 471 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:50,640 Speaker 1: were you known as the kid that likes to do us? Yes? Yes, 472 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 1: I was the kid that singing crazy? But fancy kline 473 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 1: was your go to? Yes if you were. If you're 474 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 1: doing karaoke and they had crazy, would you get to 475 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:02,040 Speaker 1: sing it? Do you still sing that in a show 476 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 1: or you know? I don't. I haven't seen it in years? 477 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: Are you playing shows right now? Um? I'm doing like 478 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: writers rounds when I can here? When is she going out? Rachel? 479 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 1: I hope soon? Maybe this fall if everything, Yeah, that's 480 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 1: that's exciting. You don't say it, don't say anything right now, 481 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 1: but do you have is it with somebody you're pretty 482 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 1: pumped about? You can tell me after we don't sit here. Okay, 483 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. I'm excited. Yeah, I hope so so okay, 484 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 1: what's the goal? What's the goal for this year? Like 485 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: before December thirty one? What do you what? Do you 486 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 1: kind of hope has happened? I hope that my song 487 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: goes on radio and does good? You know what is 488 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: the single? As a hard treasure? Okay, let me let 489 00:25:43,600 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: me play some treasure here? I'm talking about you know, 490 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: great songwriters. You wrote this with Jesse, Joe Dylan, Jimmy Robbins, 491 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,120 Speaker 1: and Laura Beld. Yeah. When you get in a room 492 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 1: like that, is there any sort of intimidation when you 493 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 1: first walk out? And I knew all of them before, um, 494 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: but do you know just walking in all three of 495 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:22,160 Speaker 1: them together? Yeah, it was really intimidating. But they're such 496 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 1: great people and so talented that I just, you know, 497 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: trust that it's going to go really well. Do you 498 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 1: tell them I'm pretty intimidated by this room? Um? No? 499 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,119 Speaker 1: Do you do? You walk in with all the with 500 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: the idea of the big idea and go, okay, I 501 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 1: got the idea? Or do you kind of follow leads? 502 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: It's it's always different. Sometimes I have an idea that 503 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: I just really want to write that day. But the 504 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 1: day I wrote Treasure, Laura looked at me and said 505 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: we were playing around with a saying woman's trash is 506 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 1: another men's treasure, And she said, would you call yourself 507 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: trash in a song? And I was like, yeah, here 508 00:26:54,960 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: is on the fence, two stays, a kid up with car, 509 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:14,879 Speaker 1: a party of color, not widows, back post change, I 510 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: could change my club. I don't know. I'm back in, 511 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:33,719 Speaker 1: but I never been all the fence. About has your 512 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 1: mom been out here yet? Yeah? Oh she has? Yeah, 513 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 1: she she comes out, you know, she tries to come 514 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,880 Speaker 1: out every couple of months. And what does she think 515 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 1: about it now? Now that we're you know, a year, 516 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:46,920 Speaker 1: year and a half later, she's just still in awe 517 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,960 Speaker 1: of it all? She um. We talked every day and 518 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: she's just she's really proud and she still cries about it. 519 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 1: Does she still want to move here? If you said, Mom, 520 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,359 Speaker 1: I'd like you to move here, would she? Um? I 521 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: feel like she has so much family in our hometown 522 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: that you know, and she's the caretaker of everybody. She 523 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,479 Speaker 1: loves to take care of people. So I feel like, um, 524 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: she's gonna stay there for a while. But my brother 525 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: is actually moving here next week to go to Belmont. 526 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 1: Now was that the same decision he would have made 527 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,119 Speaker 1: before you came here? I don't know. I don't know, 528 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 1: but you know, he wants to go to law school 529 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,159 Speaker 1: and they have a good three and three program, and 530 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: he's excited. I don't know what three and three means. 531 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: Just six years and you're done with law school. I 532 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 1: got it. I guess I thought it was like I 533 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: didn't know it till So, are you guys gonna live together? Yep, 534 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,120 Speaker 1: he's moving in with me. I gotta I gotta three 535 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 1: vegemo ram house that I just got and so he's 536 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: going to stay upstairs. That's pretty cool. Excited about that, 537 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 1: I am. I'm excited. You know, we're seven years apart, 538 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 1: so I feel like we didn't really get to be 539 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 1: that close as kids. You're seven years apart, he's a 540 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 1: lot younger than you. You have to be the big sister, 541 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: then that's yeah. I don't know whether to be a 542 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 1: cool sister or the strict sister. You can be both. Yeah, 543 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: as long I don't know the stricts the word, but 544 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 1: you could be the sister of that makes him have 545 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 1: to be responsible. Wow, you're gonna you're seven years older 546 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: than him. You're gonna have to watch over this town. 547 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 1: Have you been out? Have you been going out at all? 548 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: Like at night? Like, yeah, you get trouble here? Yeah, 549 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 1: and quickly quickly, oh, I you know, I did my 550 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: fair share of Broadway, went on into here, and you 551 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,959 Speaker 1: have to a little bit what is your hometown? Think 552 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: about this? And you like when they when you go 553 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,280 Speaker 1: on idol and now you're going to be a big star, 554 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: like what what do they think? What are they doing? 555 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 1: I feel like they're very proud, you know. I went home, 556 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:31,959 Speaker 1: I think for a little bit during Idol and there 557 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 1: was just you know, my face on every sign and 558 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 1: it was just really cool. But they're they're still really 559 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 1: really supportive. And you know, I'll get on Facebook and 560 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 1: I'll see they're sharing the music and it's really cool. 561 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 1: Well let's kay Booth. I'm super proud of you, thank you, 562 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 1: thank you for having me on here. It's it's an honor. No. 563 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 1: We tried to have you last week but were too 564 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,680 Speaker 1: busy with the radio tour. Being a big shot, that's 565 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:01,959 Speaker 1: a grea problem to have. I was like, hey, Mike, 566 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 1: let's get um you know Laci and and he was like, 567 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 1: all right, it's like, well she has a radio towards 568 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:08,600 Speaker 1: this time and this at this time. And I was like, 569 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,320 Speaker 1: dang it, but good for her. It's always a great 570 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,480 Speaker 1: problem to be busy. How's your voice like? You feel like? 571 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 1: I feel like it's it's good you. Are you having 572 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 1: to retrain yourself to sing in certain ways because you're 573 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,960 Speaker 1: singing so much? Yes? Yes, a d percent. I feel like, um, 574 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 1: I feel like I've worked on it a lot too, 575 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 1: meaning you practice with someone. Do you have a vocal No? No, 576 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: but I just remember what Nick taught me, which is 577 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: my vocal coach, And yeah, what do you teach you? Humming? 578 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 1: Just warming up? And he said I should swim, which 579 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 1: I haven't been swimming. But what does swimming do for what? 580 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,959 Speaker 1: I think I have problems with, like breathing my lungs, 581 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 1: so I think swimming helps build that muscle or whatever. 582 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 1: So you have these eight songs, let me play one 583 00:30:52,880 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 1: more before you go play me shuffle. My contract is 584 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 1: Realwace moyot my heart on shuff And you wrote all 585 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: these songs, which with a new artist isn't often the 586 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,800 Speaker 1: case because it's just hey, let's just try to grab 587 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,440 Speaker 1: the best songs we possibly can and then we'll Um, 588 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: how important was it to you to to write? And 589 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 1: by the way, all the songs are great? I think 590 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:26,920 Speaker 1: other artists would cut these if you weren't, you know, 591 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: cutting them. Um was it important to you to write 592 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 1: all the songs? You know? Once I moved to Nashville 593 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: and got the hang of co writing, it became really 594 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 1: I became obsessed with it. And so yeah, at that point, 595 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 1: after I wrote Hard to Texas, I think I was like, yeah, 596 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 1: I want to write all the songs. And I did 597 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 1: do that. I went to the pitch meetings and got 598 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 1: pitched a bunch of amazing songs. But I think, yeah, 599 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: I just wanted I knew I wanted to write all 600 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 1: of them. The one you did with Charles Kelly, did 601 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 1: you guys write that together? So how how does that 602 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: right happen? Um? He is signed to Big Machines, so 603 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,960 Speaker 1: that I think that helped. And Um, who did somebody 604 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 1: show my music? So was that on purpose? That was 605 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,280 Speaker 1: on purpose? It was? It was like, hey, Charles right 606 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,959 Speaker 1: with her for her? Yeah? Was it right with her 607 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,320 Speaker 1: for her? As a duet? Did you guys get in 608 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:14,800 Speaker 1: the room and write this song as a duet? No, 609 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 1: we didn't, but he hopped like right after we wrote it. 610 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: He hopped on because we were demoing it and um, 611 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: his vocals. I was just like, you have to do 612 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 1: that in actual recording and you know, turn up his 613 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 1: vocals because he's just so talented. Isn't it crazy? How 614 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: good people really are here? I know we talked about 615 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: at the beginning, but insane. I will go to places 616 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: or even on American Idol or from touring, and people 617 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 1: like you gotta hear this person and I just want 618 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:40,720 Speaker 1: to shake them and go you have to go to 619 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 1: Nashville and hear what what how people sound at a bar? Right? 620 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 1: Because because they're so good that even the great people 621 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 1: are struggling to find work because everybody is so good, right, 622 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,920 Speaker 1: It's like the down Broadway and you're just like whoa. 623 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 1: And then when the Charles Kelly sings or a carry 624 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 1: or it just feels like there it's like aliens. Yeah, 625 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 1: there's a bunch of a listers here. There's a bunch 626 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 1: a bunch of a list alien singers. Sure, okay, listen, 627 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,520 Speaker 1: you guys go follow late. What are you having? People 628 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,600 Speaker 1: call you? Now? You haven't called you Lacey K? Lacy. 629 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 1: He can call me Lace. I always did, But I 630 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,720 Speaker 1: don't know what you're now you're making famous? I don't 631 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,600 Speaker 1: know what your famous rules are? Here are people calling 632 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: you just Lacey? Some people call me Lacey K. What 633 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:28,360 Speaker 1: do your what's your family call you? Lacy? Ladybug K. 634 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 1: I'm not calling you lady, but I will keep calling 635 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 1: you Lacy. You can follow her Lacey K. Booth on Instagram. 636 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:40,240 Speaker 1: L A C I K A Y e um. And 637 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,720 Speaker 1: then I go, you know, check out the music. Thank you, 638 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:44,880 Speaker 1: thank you, because I'm telling you when I get text 639 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 1: from people going to Dan is the greatest. He is. 640 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,960 Speaker 1: He's an incredible person to that and you know what, 641 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 1: that's number one because a lot of people in this 642 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 1: time can play and produced, but he's the greatest guy. 643 00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 1: And if you ever get a chance to hear his stories, 644 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,080 Speaker 1: which I don't know how much you guys work and 645 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 1: told him, but he was playing for Michael Jackson. He 646 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,320 Speaker 1: told a story once, yes, and in his own band. 647 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,440 Speaker 1: You know, he was kind of a rock star himself. 648 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,360 Speaker 1: He told me the story once where he was in 649 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 1: an airport with his brother and they heard a song 650 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,120 Speaker 1: over the top and he was like, dang, the guitar 651 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:17,239 Speaker 1: part on that song is really good. Like he was 652 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:21,080 Speaker 1: admiring somebody's playing and it was him. But when he recorded, 653 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 1: when he recorded it, he just recorded it by itself 654 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:28,960 Speaker 1: with no lyrics or anything. Oh my god. Um, so okay, 655 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna let you go. Um and then 656 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,440 Speaker 1: that's all. Rachel, do you want to say anything? Come 657 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: on up here. Yeah, she is, I know she is. 658 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,000 Speaker 1: And it's weird for me sometimes I struggle whenever I 659 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,120 Speaker 1: know somebody and I have to interview them like I 660 00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:47,000 Speaker 1: don't know them, And but I just wanted to get 661 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,800 Speaker 1: you in. Some people would check out your music mostly 662 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,160 Speaker 1: because it's great. There she is, Lacey K. Booth. Do 663 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,239 Speaker 1: you guys follow her? And I'm sure I'll see you 664 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,719 Speaker 1: at the radio show sometime soon. All right, there you go.