Bobby has a list of musicians that were discovered by other famous musicians. Bobby sits down with Laci Kaye Booth who finished in the Top 5 on American Idol and has now moved to Nashville. She talks about what it was like being on the show, how hard it was for her family to move and how she landed a record deal. Plus the new music releases of the week!
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M oh Yeah, welcomed Episode three twelve with Lacey K. Booth.
I think you will love hearing from Lacey K Booth one.
There is a buzz about her as a new artist
in town that you're rarely hear about. Luckily, for me,
I've known her for a couple of years because I'm
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mentored on American Idol. She was one of my favorites.
Walker Burrows, who's still with me and still performs in
The Raging Idiots. But I mean he just does that
because we asked him to come play piano. He doesn't
do that because he needs the work. But he was
one of my favorites. Lazy K Booths one of my favorites.
But I'll play some of her music in a little bit,
but you'll you'll love hearing from her. Okay. Let's check
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out the new music this week. At number five. Kane
Brown has a new song called One Mississippi. Here's a
clips three Whiskey Are You Baby Come? Gives Me a
Gael wi Gel. Anderson East has a new album called
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Maybe We Never Die. I'm a big Anderson East fan.
It's good to hear new music from him. Here's a
new song called hood in my car. Who we Are?
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He s right? Kind of space A g Anderson East hump.
I mean in the past it's been acoustic, rough, gritty.
He's got, He's got. Yeah. Maggie Rose has a new
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album out called Have a Seat. Here is a new
song called are We There Yet? Maggie's so good you
guys check out her new album Have a Seat. Oh.
Keith Urban has a new song out called Wild Hearts.
Here's a clip of that spot Bis goes down to
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the wild cars and all of the wild hearts, just
like Man and Runaway June. They have a new EP
called Backstory, so Runaway June's EP. And here's a new
song called Forgot About That but the second and I
Forgot about Get Me, I forgot get albums out. Martina
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has the greatest hits album Lord is putting out. Solar
Power star Jill Simpson has a new album I'll called
The Ballad of Dot and Juanita or is it Dude?
It's dude right? It spelled weird? Yeah? Yeah, The Ballad
of Dude to Juanita. Um, all good things, I hope
and hell. Switch Foot has a new album out today.
How about that? Remember switch Foot dare you to move, Dar,
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you to move. There's a jam back. We were mental live,
we were meant to live, sash can we last summer?
All right, a couple of things, Eddie. Now we're gonna
talk in a second about artists who discovered other artists,
and you'll hear from Lacey K. Booth. Pretty cool, Thank
you guys for hanging out. There was a really cool
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article about popular musicians who were discovered by other popular musicians.
And so I'll give you the person. See if you
can identify who discovered them. Okay, some of these you
may know. Who discovered Travis Scott. Who's Travis Scott? Okay,
that'd be a tough one. Freddie, Yes, uh t I
t I heard Travis Scott's song lights Love Sick and
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decided to meet with him. Freestyled over Animal, signed with
Ties label. I mean Travis Scott's basically the I mean
he has McDonald's Top three the biggest hip hop artists
right now? Yeah yeah, right, we say, top three, top three,
top five, Pastro Pastro World, huge album. Jamie Fox helped
ed Sharon started his career. Sharon came to Fox's radio
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show in Los Angeles and Jamie Fox was a fan
of his music, and he allowed Sharing to crash on
his couch for six weeks. Wow. He also took it
your into a large open mic night, where he got
a standing ovation. That's crazy. How do you think someone
like that? You don't you help other people? Okay, you
just can't carry it on? Yeah, that's how you constantly
are like, thank you, but you help other people. That's how.
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Who discovered Nicki Minaj? Oh, Nicki Minaj would probably be um, yeah, um,
what's her name? Low Wine did not not what's her name?
Low Wayne discovered Nicki Minaj. One Direction discovered five Seconds
a Summer on YouTube. I figured you struggle with that
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one because you really would thank you, thank you for
sparing me on that. You know about the five sauce?
You don't know about that? Five doesn't want os? Does it? Yeah?
What ss Seconds of Summer? Yeah? Yeah yeah? Um? What
about Charlie Pooth who discovered him? Okay, okay, Charlie Pooth,
I'm only one call. Let's go with um. Harry Styles
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really Ellen discovered Charlie Pooth on YouTube and then signed
him to her label. He later moved to Atlantic Records,
and then it's been that one or um, it's hard
for me to sing one of the plane. Um, I
was about to see it. There it is, that's it,
this is this was a big one. It's been Oh yeah,
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that's good. I guess I do like a lot of
his songs. Charlie Pooth, Yeah, Scooter Braun discovered Justin Bieber,
but Usher is the one who made him as protege.
Really Fallout Boy discovered Panic at the disco? Who discovered Eminem?
Jay z mm hmm. Do you know the story? Kid Rock?
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Eminem was on a radio show, Mike, you can fact
check me on this, because I'm just going from memory here.
Emmine was on a radio show freestyling and Dr Dre
heard him. Dr Dre did, Oh, that's right, that's right,
I remember them doing that. My name is There's another story.
An Interscope Records intern saw Eminem perform at the rap
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Olympics and then passed the CD along to Jimmy Jimmy
Jimmy Levine, who played it for Dr Dre. Blah blah blah.
The story I heard is not that one. That's that's
probably the real one, the one you even hear, the
one of the radio you haven't heard that I thought
he discovered the tape and then he went back and
found him from that maybe maybe the one I saw
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is in Oh yeah. Ninety seven, Eminem appeared on a
radio show called The wake Up Show. Dr dre heard
him freestyling, see there are two stories out. That's the
one that I knew, but that one could be fake,
because that's a better one. Have you ever interviewed Eminem? No? No,
but I had a friend who did a talk show
with him once I keep my friend's name out of this,
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and he goes, yeah, I did talk show him was
a musical guest, and he's a real dick. Really that's
a good because I expect him to be you want
him to be. I was like, I don't need him
be in you know, the person he doesn't portray you
don't want to be like, all right, my name is Marshall.
And yeah, he wasn't mean, he's just buying. He just
wouldn't want to talk to anybody. Number two who discovered
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Lady Gaga, Oh, Bradley Cooper con Sorry Eddie and then
Drake discovered The Weekend. I was talking with a friend
yesterday and he goes, hey, are you a fan of
the Weekend and I said no. He said, do you
not like him? I said, no, don't carry the way. Well,
his songs come on and I'm like, I like that song,
But I don't know anybody who just goes I love
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the Weekend. I can't get enough of the Weekend. People
who like the Weekend when his music plays. But well,
you when the Weekend puts out new music, are you
like I gotta hear the new Weekend? No? No, But
usually when he puts out in new music and it's
on the radio, I know it's the Weekend. Oh it's great,
that's kind of cool. Yes, what he does is awesome,
But I'm just not a fan. Nor do I know
people who were like, he's our top three artists. Yeah,
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and probably one Like I think as time goes on
and you start looking at like who played the super Bowl,
He's gonna stick out. I think later on in life
where it's just like who is that? Like? Who who?
Maybe I don't know. He has so many hits that
everyone's legends, legends, legends, legends, and then the Weekend just
snuck in there. He has so many hits though, like
his streaming numbers are crazy. Okay, there you go, We're
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gonna talk to Lacey Kate Booth coming up in just
a second. It's good to see you. It's to get
up on the microphone. There. It's weird. I was talking
to um who texted me about you the other day.
Let me look at my text here. Someone that really
like admire texted me and was like, hey, have you
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heard of this girl? Oh my gosh, hold on, because
oh it was Dan Huff. So Dan Huff text me
and goes, hey, have you heard of Lacey k Booth?
And he sent me like a picture and a link,
and I was like, heard of her? I was like,
I knew her before you knew her. And so he
was like, oh man. And Dan doesn't often first of all,
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he never asked me to play anything, but he will go, hey,
this person is like special, and he doesn't say that
very often. And he did message me and say, yeah,
there's something different about this oh my god, which and
he's like, how do you know her? I was like, well,
how long ago were we on idol together? Two years?
Was it toteen? So however long ago? I was like,
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she was like one of the only people I ever
just wanted to win. I would ever be like, all right,
here's what you need to do to just move forward
in the show you a bit, so, well, let's let's
just rewind a little bit. And I act like I
know nothing about you. Okay, So you grew up in Texas,
so I didn't know that. I guess, um, well, how
long have you been here in Nashville now? Um? I
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moved September aftereen after I was an idol, so two
years almost years. So you've lived here for two years
and a lot of that was the COVID time. Though
what did you do while living here? Because you didn't
really have any any sort of roots yet when you
were here and it's you know, the good thing, I'm
moving to Nashville as you meet a lot of people
quick that that wasn't able to happen for you. Not really,
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I met a lot of people virtually. So I when
I first moved here, and I got into a lot
of good rooms with writers, and um, it was my
first experience ever co writing, and uh it was amazing.
I wrote by myself my whole life, so just co writing,
um with different people. And then during the pandemic, virtually
I got to have a lot of co writes, I
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wrote over three hundred songs during the pandemic. Did you
write with humans before COVID? Were you here a little
bit before COVID a little bit? So you did get
some of that? I did? Yeah, I did. Um. I
remember talking maybe it was your mom. I was with
you and your mom we were and did they move
with you? Were they going to though? When I was
was that? And I was like, you were like nose.
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I remember telling your mom that it was like I'm
going to move. I'm like, know, you have to let
it go by yourself. And it was the best thing.
It really has been the best thing. I've grown up
a lot. So what happens you move here? After American Idol,
which you I believe we're top five? You know what
number were you? Do you remember five? Because it kind
of doesn't matter once the shows over does't matter if
you're one, two, five, It matters what you do after that.
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You leave, you go home to Texas for a minute,
for a minute, And did you know you were moving
to Nashville? No, I didn't. I knew I wanted to
go and you know, talk with some labels and and
ride a little bit. And so I came here for
about two weeks, and um, and had you know. I
stayed in a little temporary apartment and then I realized
I love co writing and I loved Nashville, so I
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came here for it was supposed to be just three
months in another temporary apartment and um, and then I
was like, no, I'm moving here. So you said you
love co writes because I'm assuming like most people, you
just wrote songs by yourself as a young kid. When
did you start to play music at all? And when
when did you pick up a guitar and start writing songs?
Nine years old? They who puts a guitar in your hand?
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Or how do you even become exposed to one? Well,
my dad, he was he's a Texas music artist, so
he Um, I've been around guitars and banjos and all
kinds of stuff my whole life. So I he taught
me my first three chords. And then at nine years old,
I got a little baby, um ibanez, and I started
just playing and googling what chords were. I remember that
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was part of the storyline that was on you was
like her dad's a Texas country artist and um, and
you would play shows with him some right, would you
were you? Were you and your dad's super close or
was he gone a lot? He was gone a lot
throughout my whole childhood. And then around fifteen fourteen or fifteen,
he took me to Arkansas two um to record some
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music and I recorded like four songs and then we
got really close, and um we stayed pretty close throughout
that time, and I opened for him in a bunch
of shows and played little guitar pools with him. That's
pretty cool. Is he teaching you as you're on the road.
Were you kind of taking lessons from him as well
about being an artist or at least watching kind of
what happens if you are an artist? How hard it
actually is exactly? Did you notice that when you're a teenager,
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like you know, it's not like on TV where you're
flying on your own jail exactly. I mean, it's it's
a hard life to tour. And you would see this
with your dad and he wanted you to do that,
you know, him and my mom and step dad all
told me to get a degree first, get it. So
I was in college when I tried out for American Idols,
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thirty hours away from my bachelor's degree. I remember you
not being there but being so close to it, and
you went on, now you're not You're you're thirty, still
thirty credit store, right, Yeah, and you're probably a lot
more announced. But you can go back and get that anytime.
You really can't go back and get that anytime. You have,
you know, a window for you that that's really opening up. Um.
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So what was the conversation like with your parents that Hey,
I want to move to Nashville without you? Oh my
mom cried and cried. Um, she well, she she knew
that I wanted to move there eventually, but she thought
she would have me home for a couple of months.
In those three months that I came here and stayed
in the temporary apartment, I was like, I'm going to
get like an apartment for a year, and I just
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never went home. I just moved in. Did you feel
like when you got to Nashville and you started to
be around other artists that we're making a career out
of this and they are all I mean, everybody's good here,
so good. Everybody's so good that you move here and
you're either so intimidated or you're so inspired because you
go I can be that good. You know, which where
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did it fall with you? I think it was inspired
because people, you know, I would. I haven't been very
social in my whole life. Moving here has made me,
you know, more extroperted than I've ever been. But people
have welcomed me with open arms here, like so many people,
really really incredibly talented people, just super supportive and I'm
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just inspired by everybody here. When you get here, do
you start to go to any little small, you know,
songwriter nights and playing or trying? Did that happen at
all with you? First? Um? I got to go to Bluebird,
my very first songwriter round, So that was just like
super intimidating. Yeah, did you play in the round where
you sit in the middle. Yeah, it's pretty tough because
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I mean the people are sitting right on you there.
Oh it was. I was so nervous. But were you
more nervous that or performing in front of like six
million people on TV? I think I was more nervous
at that. Just that small, more small group of people
watching your every move and then playing original songs for
me has always been like do you okay playing original songs?
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Are those all the songs I'm gonna play some of
the stuff from from your record here. Um, is this
all stuff that you've written since you came to Nashville?
Do you find that a lot of the stuff that
you wrote before you got here wasn't as solid as
you thought it was once you started to get I
want to here's a little bit of you to you.
This is lazy k boo. I'm so husy sleeping the
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samemikon sheet some cused. You don't know what I do.
You're down. Your name sounds like cam Mad, I'm at Camy.
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I'm used to you. So when you when you make
this record, does your label try to go and take
all the other stuff down? Was there that effort where
like not like music? Yeah? Or is it still up?
It's still up? Oh yeah? Do you like it still
being up? Well? You know the songs now, I have
recorded that at Rose with studios in um, Texas and
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they did a really great job. But the songs, I'm
just kind of like, So you like heartbreak, you like
the production? Yeah? But you can hear how you've graduated
in songwriting and vocals too. Yeah. What's it like to
go in front of these record guys like you? Like,
did you have to go play in front of these
guys or do they just know what you sounded like?
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And they're like, okay, we like you. I had to
go play for him. And this is a really funny
story because I went over Jimmy Harden's house, which is
the president of my label, along with Scott Brochetta, and Um.
Jimmy actually was having Christmas with Dan huff Um a
Christmas party, and Dan showed him a song of mine
and that's how the hookup happened. And UM, I went
over Jimmy's house and it was the whole radio team,
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the whole team and Scott sitting in front of me,
and Um, he looked at me. I was playing a
song that was already really high for my but my voice,
and he looks at me. He said keep up and
I was like, okay, so but I keep up saying
it in a hierarchy and he said keep up again.
I did it. I don't know how I hit those notes,
but I was like, oh, was that one of those
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experiences were like all right, we're gonna sign you to
a deal right then, or they like hey, that's great.
Then you go about your life and call you back
two weeks later and say we like you. They signed
me on the spot, which was very surprising, and they
said they never do that, but um, yeah, I cried
right in front all of them. So what did they
tell you that meant to you? Like? I know what
it means to you, but when someone says I signed
you on the spot, like, what's different about your life
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and and what's different about your musical you know journey
from that day on, I don't know. I just felt
really surreal at the moment and I couldn't believe it.
But it also felt like home and it felt like
everything changed. It really did. Did they start to match
you with better songwriters or or put you in different
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rooms or producers or dan? Like, what what what happened
that when they signed you? You're like, oh, this now
feels different. Well, when they signed me, it was January
and then all of a sudden, the pain, So it
was like it didn't really feel different. But I mean
I got in rooms with you know, Hillary Lindsay and
old virtual rooms, so I felt like, you know, I
started getting in rooms with incredible songwriters. Yes, but it
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when you got here and it was pre pandemic, how
did you get to how did you get cool rights?
Who was working that for you? Um? Red Light Rachel? Yeah,
my cool manager in Autumn House from Red Light. So
they're they're working, they're finding your rooms. Did you find
how welcoming were they too? A girl who just moved
here from Texas, who just came off American Idol. Did
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you feel like they were kind of open arms with you?
Oh my gosh. Yes. And I couldn't believe. Like one
of my first rights was with Nathan Chapman and Emily
Landis and I walked in and Nathan has, you know,
his Grammy's on his piano, and I just think that's
the coolest thing. It was really surreal. But they really
welcome me with open arms. And that song we wrote
that first week I was here was Heard of Texas,
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which was the north star of this whole project. I'll
play some Heart of Texas. This is actually the last
track on the album, right on the eight Songs book,
God Say Cabs. I guess that's all when you say
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that was the north star of the project. What do
you mean? When I wrote it? I had They were like,
what's your style of music? Like? What genre are you in? Country?
And I just blurted out dreaming country, and I just
totally made that up. But you know, they have dream
pop stuff, and so I thought that was a pretty
good idea of who I was as an artist, And um,
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I just wanted this whole project to feel very dreaming country.
And I think that has a lot to do with
me being influenced by Stevie Nicks and or Jones. Did
you sing any Stevie Nicks on American Idol Dreams? Did you? Yeah?
I mean all that even speaking dreaming, all that feels
like a blur to me. Now, were you with walker
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Hey's on the same sit where walker Borough is in
the same season? I mean, for me, that was my
favorite season. But like walker Borough still plays with me
and is like, right, isn't he like the nicest guy?
And so is Emma Emma play at the she does.
Emma opened for me for an entire tour playing. I
would do stand up with theaters and she would open
for me. But yeah, that was a really good like
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group of people. And what's funny about like an American
Idol now is that people don't look at it like
they used to. Used to come off that show. People like, oh,
it's American Idol. Now people look at you, find any
way possible to make any connection with people, build a platform,
and then if you're good, come to town. We'll make
even better, right. I feel that way with a lot
of people, like Chase just one the show, and I
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was telling him same thing. I was telling you, you
have to move town. Ye Like, you may think that
you're gonna do what you're doing, but they're bad. They're
good and bad about idol is bad is once you're off,
it goes away. Nobody gives crab anymore. But that's also
good because you're not pigeonholed as the Idol person. And
you'll have to do in he used for a bit,
and people will ask you your first time around, they're
gonna ask about American Idol, and you're gonna kind of
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grit your teeth and be like, I really wouldn't want
to talk about American Idol. But you'll do it the
second time. You won't even be a thing anymore, you know,
And that's what's especially if you're good, and you're really good,
and I always knew you were really good, and I
would always are, you know. It wasn't a lot of
people that I would genuinely care about. But I remember,
you know you did. You helped me out a lot.
You've built my confidence in a lot of way because
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I had somebody in my corner. You were somebody who
didn't know how good they were yet. And I remember
telling you that, like, you're so good. You have no
idea how good you are. And I didn't think you
would win because of the how the people vote on
that show and who votes um Lane one Lane one
Lane is a good looking dude, and you know the
people that are voting on that show, they're mostly looking
for for a young, good looking dude. I think we
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knew that. But you came off and I was so
proud you moved here. And I was checking up on
and I was watching videos you were doing. I would
see him from Rachel. Rachel was because you know, I'm
a red light too. Did you know that I did?
So I was keeping up with you, and then I
saw you started to kind of, you know, make music,
and I listened to it, and I listen to anybody's
music because I never want to kind of be I
never want to like be the person that is giving
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people advice. I don't want to be advice guy and
music yet, but I'm really proud that you're here, and
I think you're gonna do just awesome things. And I
saw you were doing a radio tour last week. I'm
still doing radio tour virtually you are. That's how you know,
are you gonna do? You're gonna drive around and see
people eventually, I hope. So yeah, it was supposed to
be like that, but with you know, COVID cases going up,
when they start to spend money on you, you know
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they believe in you in this town because there. I mean,
they could spend money in many different ways, but when
they spend it on an artist and you have a
team that will stab somebody to make it to get
a hit, that they will run someone over the car.
If I were standing in the way of some song
doings and they would run me over, both of them
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would would shoot me with a jet But so all
that said, like, do you feel like now you feel
mature enough and your songwriting and singing to actually go
out and do this thing on a on a major level. Yeah,
I do. And it feels really weird saying that, but
I just feel really grateful. I feel like everything has
fallen into my lap. In place and and I don't,
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you know, really know how, but I'm just I'm very
very lucky and thankful. Were you good as a kid?
Like were you doing in like seven year old? I
guess if you did it at nine? You did? But
you know, I sing really nasally, like through my nose,
really bad, and so I didn't really discover my voice.
And I knew I couldn't belt like Carrie Underwood or
Martine McBride, and I thought that made me like suck
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as an artist, but or a vocalist. And but after
you know, discovering Nora Jones and Cvnicks, I feel like,
if you're twelve or thirteen and you're singing like you are,
were you known as the kid that likes to do us? Yes? Yes,
I was the kid that singing crazy? But fancy kline
was your go to? Yes if you were. If you're
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doing karaoke and they had crazy, would you get to
sing it? Do you still sing that in a show
or you know? I don't. I haven't seen it in years?
Are you playing shows right now? Um? I'm doing like
writers rounds when I can here? When is she going out? Rachel?
I hope soon? Maybe this fall if everything, Yeah, that's
that's exciting. You don't say it, don't say anything right now,
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but do you have is it with somebody you're pretty
pumped about? You can tell me after we don't sit here. Okay,
that's pretty cool. I'm excited. Yeah, I hope so so okay,
what's the goal? What's the goal for this year? Like
before December thirty one? What do you what? Do you
kind of hope has happened? I hope that my song
goes on radio and does good? You know what is
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the single? As a hard treasure? Okay, let me let
me play some treasure here? I'm talking about you know,
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great songwriters. You wrote this with Jesse, Joe Dylan, Jimmy Robbins,
and Laura Beld. Yeah. When you get in a room
like that, is there any sort of intimidation when you
first walk out? And I knew all of them before, um,
but do you know just walking in all three of
them together? Yeah, it was really intimidating. But they're such
great people and so talented that I just, you know,
trust that it's going to go really well. Do you
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tell them I'm pretty intimidated by this room? Um? No?
Do you do? You walk in with all the with
the idea of the big idea and go, okay, I
got the idea? Or do you kind of follow leads?
It's it's always different. Sometimes I have an idea that
I just really want to write that day. But the
day I wrote Treasure, Laura looked at me and said
we were playing around with a saying woman's trash is
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another men's treasure, And she said, would you call yourself
trash in a song? And I was like, yeah, here
is on the fence, two stays, a kid up with car,
a party of color, not widows, back post change, I
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could change my club. I don't know. I'm back in,
but I never been all the fence. About has your
mom been out here yet? Yeah? Oh she has? Yeah,
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she she comes out, you know, she tries to come
out every couple of months. And what does she think
about it now? Now that we're you know, a year,
year and a half later, she's just still in awe
of it all? She um. We talked every day and
she's just she's really proud and she still cries about it.
Does she still want to move here? If you said, Mom,
I'd like you to move here, would she? Um? I
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feel like she has so much family in our hometown
that you know, and she's the caretaker of everybody. She
loves to take care of people. So I feel like, um,
she's gonna stay there for a while. But my brother
is actually moving here next week to go to Belmont.
Now was that the same decision he would have made
before you came here? I don't know. I don't know,
but you know, he wants to go to law school
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and they have a good three and three program, and
he's excited. I don't know what three and three means.
Just six years and you're done with law school. I
got it. I guess I thought it was like I
didn't know it till So, are you guys gonna live together? Yep,
he's moving in with me. I gotta I gotta three
vegemo ram house that I just got and so he's
going to stay upstairs. That's pretty cool. Excited about that,
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I am. I'm excited. You know, we're seven years apart,
so I feel like we didn't really get to be
that close as kids. You're seven years apart, he's a
lot younger than you. You have to be the big sister,
then that's yeah. I don't know whether to be a
cool sister or the strict sister. You can be both. Yeah,
as long I don't know the stricts the word, but
you could be the sister of that makes him have
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to be responsible. Wow, you're gonna you're seven years older
than him. You're gonna have to watch over this town.
Have you been out? Have you been going out at all?
Like at night? Like, yeah, you get trouble here? Yeah,
and quickly quickly, oh, I you know, I did my
fair share of Broadway, went on into here, and you
have to a little bit what is your hometown? Think
about this? And you like when they when you go
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on idol and now you're going to be a big star,
like what what do they think? What are they doing?
I feel like they're very proud, you know. I went home,
I think for a little bit during Idol and there
was just you know, my face on every sign and
it was just really cool. But they're they're still really
really supportive. And you know, I'll get on Facebook and
I'll see they're sharing the music and it's really cool.
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Well let's kay Booth. I'm super proud of you, thank you,
thank you for having me on here. It's it's an honor. No.
We tried to have you last week but were too
busy with the radio tour. Being a big shot, that's
a grea problem to have. I was like, hey, Mike,
let's get um you know Laci and and he was like,
all right, it's like, well she has a radio towards
this time and this at this time. And I was like,
dang it, but good for her. It's always a great
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problem to be busy. How's your voice like? You feel like?
I feel like it's it's good you. Are you having
to retrain yourself to sing in certain ways because you're
singing so much? Yes? Yes, a d percent. I feel like, um,
I feel like I've worked on it a lot too,
meaning you practice with someone. Do you have a vocal No? No,
but I just remember what Nick taught me, which is
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my vocal coach, And yeah, what do you teach you? Humming?
Just warming up? And he said I should swim, which
I haven't been swimming. But what does swimming do for what?
I think I have problems with, like breathing my lungs,
so I think swimming helps build that muscle or whatever.
So you have these eight songs, let me play one
more before you go play me shuffle. My contract is
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Realwace moyot my heart on shuff And you wrote all
these songs, which with a new artist isn't often the
case because it's just hey, let's just try to grab
the best songs we possibly can and then we'll Um,
how important was it to you to to write? And
by the way, all the songs are great? I think
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other artists would cut these if you weren't, you know,
cutting them. Um was it important to you to write
all the songs? You know? Once I moved to Nashville
and got the hang of co writing, it became really
I became obsessed with it. And so yeah, at that point,
after I wrote Hard to Texas, I think I was like, yeah,
I want to write all the songs. And I did
do that. I went to the pitch meetings and got
pitched a bunch of amazing songs. But I think, yeah,
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I just wanted I knew I wanted to write all
of them. The one you did with Charles Kelly, did
you guys write that together? So how how does that
right happen? Um? He is signed to Big Machines, so
that I think that helped. And Um, who did somebody
show my music? So was that on purpose? That was
on purpose? It was? It was like, hey, Charles right
with her for her? Yeah? Was it right with her
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for her? As a duet? Did you guys get in
the room and write this song as a duet? No,
we didn't, but he hopped like right after we wrote it.
He hopped on because we were demoing it and um,
his vocals. I was just like, you have to do
that in actual recording and you know, turn up his
vocals because he's just so talented. Isn't it crazy? How
good people really are here? I know we talked about
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at the beginning, but insane. I will go to places
or even on American Idol or from touring, and people
like you gotta hear this person and I just want
to shake them and go you have to go to
Nashville and hear what what how people sound at a bar? Right?
Because because they're so good that even the great people
are struggling to find work because everybody is so good, right,
It's like the down Broadway and you're just like whoa.
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And then when the Charles Kelly sings or a carry
or it just feels like there it's like aliens. Yeah,
there's a bunch of a listers here. There's a bunch
a bunch of a list alien singers. Sure, okay, listen,
you guys go follow late. What are you having? People
call you? Now? You haven't called you Lacey K? Lacy.
He can call me Lace. I always did, But I
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don't know what you're now you're making famous? I don't
know what your famous rules are? Here are people calling
you just Lacey? Some people call me Lacey K. What
do your what's your family call you? Lacy? Ladybug K.
I'm not calling you lady, but I will keep calling
you Lacy. You can follow her Lacey K. Booth on Instagram.
L A C I K A Y e um. And
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then I go, you know, check out the music. Thank you,
thank you, because I'm telling you when I get text
from people going to Dan is the greatest. He is.
He's an incredible person to that and you know what,
that's number one because a lot of people in this
time can play and produced, but he's the greatest guy.
And if you ever get a chance to hear his stories,
which I don't know how much you guys work and
told him, but he was playing for Michael Jackson. He
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told a story once, yes, and in his own band.
You know, he was kind of a rock star himself.
He told me the story once where he was in
an airport with his brother and they heard a song
over the top and he was like, dang, the guitar
part on that song is really good. Like he was
admiring somebody's playing and it was him. But when he recorded,
when he recorded it, he just recorded it by itself
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with no lyrics or anything. Oh my god. Um, so okay,
I'm gonna I'm gonna let you go. Um and then
that's all. Rachel, do you want to say anything? Come
on up here. Yeah, she is, I know she is.
And it's weird for me sometimes I struggle whenever I
know somebody and I have to interview them like I
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don't know them, And but I just wanted to get
you in. Some people would check out your music mostly
because it's great. There she is, Lacey K. Booth. Do
you guys follow her? And I'm sure I'll see you
at the radio show sometime soon. All right, there you go.
M oh Yeah, welcomed Episode three twelve with Lacey K. Booth.
I think you will love hearing from Lacey K Booth one.
There is a buzz about her as a new artist
in town that you're rarely hear about. Luckily, for me,
I've known her for a couple of years because I'm
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mentored on American Idol. She was one of my favorites.
Walker Burrows, who's still with me and still performs in
The Raging Idiots. But I mean he just does that
because we asked him to come play piano. He doesn't
do that because he needs the work. But he was
one of my favorites. Lazy K Booths one of my favorites.
But I'll play some of her music in a little bit,
but you'll you'll love hearing from her. Okay. Let's check
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out the new music this week. At number five. Kane
Brown has a new song called One Mississippi. Here's a
clips three Whiskey Are You Baby Come? Gives Me a
Gael wi Gel. Anderson East has a new album called
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Maybe We Never Die. I'm a big Anderson East fan.
It's good to hear new music from him. Here's a
new song called hood in my car. Who we Are?
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He s right? Kind of space A g Anderson East hump.
I mean in the past it's been acoustic, rough, gritty.
He's got, He's got. Yeah. Maggie Rose has a new
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album out called Have a Seat. Here is a new
song called are We There Yet? Maggie's so good you
guys check out her new album Have a Seat. Oh.
Keith Urban has a new song out called Wild Hearts.
Here's a clip of that spot Bis goes down to
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the wild cars and all of the wild hearts, just
like Man and Runaway June. They have a new EP
called Backstory, so Runaway June's EP. And here's a new
song called Forgot About That but the second and I
Forgot about Get Me, I forgot get albums out. Martina
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has the greatest hits album Lord is putting out. Solar
Power star Jill Simpson has a new album I'll called
The Ballad of Dot and Juanita or is it Dude?
It's dude right? It spelled weird? Yeah? Yeah, The Ballad
of Dude to Juanita. Um, all good things, I hope
and hell. Switch Foot has a new album out today.
How about that? Remember switch Foot dare you to move, Dar,
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you to move. There's a jam back. We were mental live,
we were meant to live, sash can we last summer?
All right, a couple of things, Eddie. Now we're gonna
talk in a second about artists who discovered other artists,
and you'll hear from Lacey K. Booth. Pretty cool, Thank
you guys for hanging out. There was a really cool
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article about popular musicians who were discovered by other popular musicians.
And so I'll give you the person. See if you
can identify who discovered them. Okay, some of these you
may know. Who discovered Travis Scott. Who's Travis Scott? Okay,
that'd be a tough one. Freddie, Yes, uh t I
t I heard Travis Scott's song lights Love Sick and
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decided to meet with him. Freestyled over Animal, signed with
Ties label. I mean Travis Scott's basically the I mean
he has McDonald's Top three the biggest hip hop artists
right now? Yeah yeah, right, we say, top three, top three,
top five, Pastro Pastro World, huge album. Jamie Fox helped
ed Sharon started his career. Sharon came to Fox's radio
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show in Los Angeles and Jamie Fox was a fan
of his music, and he allowed Sharing to crash on
his couch for six weeks. Wow. He also took it
your into a large open mic night, where he got
a standing ovation. That's crazy. How do you think someone
like that? You don't you help other people? Okay, you
just can't carry it on? Yeah, that's how you constantly
are like, thank you, but you help other people. That's how.
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Who discovered Nicki Minaj? Oh, Nicki Minaj would probably be um, yeah, um,
what's her name? Low Wine did not not what's her name?
Low Wayne discovered Nicki Minaj. One Direction discovered five Seconds
a Summer on YouTube. I figured you struggle with that
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one because you really would thank you, thank you for
sparing me on that. You know about the five sauce?
You don't know about that? Five doesn't want os? Does it? Yeah?
What ss Seconds of Summer? Yeah? Yeah yeah? Um? What
about Charlie Pooth who discovered him? Okay, okay, Charlie Pooth,
I'm only one call. Let's go with um. Harry Styles
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really Ellen discovered Charlie Pooth on YouTube and then signed
him to her label. He later moved to Atlantic Records,
and then it's been that one or um, it's hard
for me to sing one of the plane. Um, I
was about to see it. There it is, that's it,
this is this was a big one. It's been Oh yeah,
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that's good. I guess I do like a lot of
his songs. Charlie Pooth, Yeah, Scooter Braun discovered Justin Bieber,
but Usher is the one who made him as protege.
Really Fallout Boy discovered Panic at the disco? Who discovered Eminem?
Jay z mm hmm. Do you know the story? Kid Rock?
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Eminem was on a radio show, Mike, you can fact
check me on this, because I'm just going from memory here.
Emmine was on a radio show freestyling and Dr Dre
heard him. Dr Dre did, Oh, that's right, that's right,
I remember them doing that. My name is There's another story.
An Interscope Records intern saw Eminem perform at the rap
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Olympics and then passed the CD along to Jimmy Jimmy
Jimmy Levine, who played it for Dr Dre. Blah blah blah.
The story I heard is not that one. That's that's
probably the real one, the one you even hear, the
one of the radio you haven't heard that I thought
he discovered the tape and then he went back and
found him from that maybe maybe the one I saw
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is in Oh yeah. Ninety seven, Eminem appeared on a
radio show called The wake Up Show. Dr dre heard
him freestyling, see there are two stories out. That's the
one that I knew, but that one could be fake,
because that's a better one. Have you ever interviewed Eminem? No? No,
but I had a friend who did a talk show
with him once I keep my friend's name out of this,
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and he goes, yeah, I did talk show him was
a musical guest, and he's a real dick. Really that's
a good because I expect him to be you want
him to be. I was like, I don't need him
be in you know, the person he doesn't portray you
don't want to be like, all right, my name is Marshall.
And yeah, he wasn't mean, he's just buying. He just
wouldn't want to talk to anybody. Number two who discovered
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Lady Gaga, Oh, Bradley Cooper con Sorry Eddie and then
Drake discovered The Weekend. I was talking with a friend
yesterday and he goes, hey, are you a fan of
the Weekend and I said no. He said, do you
not like him? I said, no, don't carry the way. Well,
his songs come on and I'm like, I like that song,
But I don't know anybody who just goes I love
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the Weekend. I can't get enough of the Weekend. People
who like the Weekend when his music plays. But well,
you when the Weekend puts out new music, are you
like I gotta hear the new Weekend? No? No, But
usually when he puts out in new music and it's
on the radio, I know it's the Weekend. Oh it's great,
that's kind of cool. Yes, what he does is awesome,
But I'm just not a fan. Nor do I know
people who were like, he's our top three artists. Yeah,
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and probably one Like I think as time goes on
and you start looking at like who played the super Bowl,
He's gonna stick out. I think later on in life
where it's just like who is that? Like? Who who?
Maybe I don't know. He has so many hits that
everyone's legends, legends, legends, legends, and then the Weekend just
snuck in there. He has so many hits though, like
his streaming numbers are crazy. Okay, there you go, We're
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gonna talk to Lacey Kate Booth coming up in just
a second. It's good to see you. It's to get
up on the microphone. There. It's weird. I was talking
to um who texted me about you the other day.
Let me look at my text here. Someone that really
like admire texted me and was like, hey, have you
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heard of this girl? Oh my gosh, hold on, because
oh it was Dan Huff. So Dan Huff text me
and goes, hey, have you heard of Lacey k Booth?
And he sent me like a picture and a link,
and I was like, heard of her? I was like,
I knew her before you knew her. And so he
was like, oh man. And Dan doesn't often first of all,
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he never asked me to play anything, but he will go, hey,
this person is like special, and he doesn't say that
very often. And he did message me and say, yeah,
there's something different about this oh my god, which and
he's like, how do you know her? I was like, well,
how long ago were we on idol together? Two years?
Was it toteen? So however long ago? I was like,
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she was like one of the only people I ever
just wanted to win. I would ever be like, all right,
here's what you need to do to just move forward
in the show you a bit, so, well, let's let's
just rewind a little bit. And I act like I
know nothing about you. Okay, So you grew up in Texas,
so I didn't know that. I guess, um, well, how
long have you been here in Nashville now? Um? I
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moved September aftereen after I was an idol, so two
years almost years. So you've lived here for two years
and a lot of that was the COVID time. Though
what did you do while living here? Because you didn't
really have any any sort of roots yet when you
were here and it's you know, the good thing, I'm
moving to Nashville as you meet a lot of people
quick that that wasn't able to happen for you. Not really,
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I met a lot of people virtually. So I when
I first moved here, and I got into a lot
of good rooms with writers, and um, it was my
first experience ever co writing, and uh it was amazing.
I wrote by myself my whole life, so just co writing,
um with different people. And then during the pandemic, virtually
I got to have a lot of co writes, I
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wrote over three hundred songs during the pandemic. Did you
write with humans before COVID? Were you here a little
bit before COVID a little bit? So you did get
some of that? I did? Yeah, I did. Um. I
remember talking maybe it was your mom. I was with
you and your mom we were and did they move
with you? Were they going to though? When I was
was that? And I was like, you were like nose.
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I remember telling your mom that it was like I'm
going to move. I'm like, know, you have to let
it go by yourself. And it was the best thing.
It really has been the best thing. I've grown up
a lot. So what happens you move here? After American Idol,
which you I believe we're top five? You know what
number were you? Do you remember five? Because it kind
of doesn't matter once the shows over does't matter if
you're one, two, five, It matters what you do after that.
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You leave, you go home to Texas for a minute,
for a minute, And did you know you were moving
to Nashville? No, I didn't. I knew I wanted to
go and you know, talk with some labels and and
ride a little bit. And so I came here for
about two weeks, and um, and had you know. I
stayed in a little temporary apartment and then I realized
I love co writing and I loved Nashville, so I
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came here for it was supposed to be just three
months in another temporary apartment and um, and then I
was like, no, I'm moving here. So you said you
love co writes because I'm assuming like most people, you
just wrote songs by yourself as a young kid. When
did you start to play music at all? And when
when did you pick up a guitar and start writing songs?
Nine years old? They who puts a guitar in your hand?
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Or how do you even become exposed to one? Well,
my dad, he was he's a Texas music artist, so
he Um, I've been around guitars and banjos and all
kinds of stuff my whole life. So I he taught
me my first three chords. And then at nine years old,
I got a little baby, um ibanez, and I started
just playing and googling what chords were. I remember that
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was part of the storyline that was on you was
like her dad's a Texas country artist and um, and
you would play shows with him some right, would you
were you? Were you and your dad's super close or
was he gone a lot? He was gone a lot
throughout my whole childhood. And then around fifteen fourteen or fifteen,
he took me to Arkansas two um to record some
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music and I recorded like four songs and then we
got really close, and um we stayed pretty close throughout
that time, and I opened for him in a bunch
of shows and played little guitar pools with him. That's
pretty cool. Is he teaching you as you're on the road.
Were you kind of taking lessons from him as well
about being an artist or at least watching kind of
what happens if you are an artist? How hard it
actually is exactly? Did you notice that when you're a teenager,
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like you know, it's not like on TV where you're
flying on your own jail exactly. I mean, it's it's
a hard life to tour. And you would see this
with your dad and he wanted you to do that,
you know, him and my mom and step dad all
told me to get a degree first, get it. So
I was in college when I tried out for American Idols,
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thirty hours away from my bachelor's degree. I remember you
not being there but being so close to it, and
you went on, now you're not You're you're thirty, still
thirty credit store, right, Yeah, and you're probably a lot
more announced. But you can go back and get that anytime.
You really can't go back and get that anytime. You have,
you know, a window for you that that's really opening up. Um.
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So what was the conversation like with your parents that Hey,
I want to move to Nashville without you? Oh my
mom cried and cried. Um, she well, she she knew
that I wanted to move there eventually, but she thought
she would have me home for a couple of months.
In those three months that I came here and stayed
in the temporary apartment, I was like, I'm going to
get like an apartment for a year, and I just
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never went home. I just moved in. Did you feel
like when you got to Nashville and you started to
be around other artists that we're making a career out
of this and they are all I mean, everybody's good here,
so good. Everybody's so good that you move here and
you're either so intimidated or you're so inspired because you
go I can be that good. You know, which where
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did it fall with you? I think it was inspired
because people, you know, I would. I haven't been very
social in my whole life. Moving here has made me,
you know, more extroperted than I've ever been. But people
have welcomed me with open arms here, like so many people,
really really incredibly talented people, just super supportive and I'm
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just inspired by everybody here. When you get here, do
you start to go to any little small, you know,
songwriter nights and playing or trying? Did that happen at
all with you? First? Um? I got to go to Bluebird,
my very first songwriter round, So that was just like
super intimidating. Yeah, did you play in the round where
you sit in the middle. Yeah, it's pretty tough because
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I mean the people are sitting right on you there.
Oh it was. I was so nervous. But were you
more nervous that or performing in front of like six
million people on TV? I think I was more nervous
at that. Just that small, more small group of people
watching your every move and then playing original songs for
me has always been like do you okay playing original songs?
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Are those all the songs I'm gonna play some of
the stuff from from your record here. Um, is this
all stuff that you've written since you came to Nashville?
Do you find that a lot of the stuff that
you wrote before you got here wasn't as solid as
you thought it was once you started to get I
want to here's a little bit of you to you.
This is lazy k boo. I'm so husy sleeping the
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samemikon sheet some cused. You don't know what I do.
You're down. Your name sounds like cam Mad, I'm at Camy.
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I'm used to you. So when you when you make
this record, does your label try to go and take
all the other stuff down? Was there that effort where
like not like music? Yeah? Or is it still up?
It's still up? Oh yeah? Do you like it still
being up? Well? You know the songs now, I have
recorded that at Rose with studios in um, Texas and
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they did a really great job. But the songs, I'm
just kind of like, So you like heartbreak, you like
the production? Yeah? But you can hear how you've graduated
in songwriting and vocals too. Yeah. What's it like to
go in front of these record guys like you? Like,
did you have to go play in front of these
guys or do they just know what you sounded like?
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And they're like, okay, we like you. I had to
go play for him. And this is a really funny
story because I went over Jimmy Harden's house, which is
the president of my label, along with Scott Brochetta, and Um.
Jimmy actually was having Christmas with Dan huff Um a
Christmas party, and Dan showed him a song of mine
and that's how the hookup happened. And UM, I went
over Jimmy's house and it was the whole radio team,
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the whole team and Scott sitting in front of me,
and Um, he looked at me. I was playing a
song that was already really high for my but my voice,
and he looks at me. He said keep up and
I was like, okay, so but I keep up saying
it in a hierarchy and he said keep up again.
I did it. I don't know how I hit those notes,
but I was like, oh, was that one of those
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experiences were like all right, we're gonna sign you to
a deal right then, or they like hey, that's great.
Then you go about your life and call you back
two weeks later and say we like you. They signed
me on the spot, which was very surprising, and they
said they never do that, but um, yeah, I cried
right in front all of them. So what did they
tell you that meant to you? Like? I know what
it means to you, but when someone says I signed
you on the spot, like, what's different about your life
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and and what's different about your musical you know journey
from that day on, I don't know. I just felt
really surreal at the moment and I couldn't believe it.
But it also felt like home and it felt like
everything changed. It really did. Did they start to match
you with better songwriters or or put you in different
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rooms or producers or dan? Like, what what what happened
that when they signed you? You're like, oh, this now
feels different. Well, when they signed me, it was January
and then all of a sudden, the pain, So it
was like it didn't really feel different. But I mean
I got in rooms with you know, Hillary Lindsay and
old virtual rooms, so I felt like, you know, I
started getting in rooms with incredible songwriters. Yes, but it
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when you got here and it was pre pandemic, how
did you get to how did you get cool rights?
Who was working that for you? Um? Red Light Rachel? Yeah,
my cool manager in Autumn House from Red Light. So
they're they're working, they're finding your rooms. Did you find
how welcoming were they too? A girl who just moved
here from Texas, who just came off American Idol. Did
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you feel like they were kind of open arms with you?
Oh my gosh. Yes. And I couldn't believe. Like one
of my first rights was with Nathan Chapman and Emily
Landis and I walked in and Nathan has, you know,
his Grammy's on his piano, and I just think that's
the coolest thing. It was really surreal. But they really
welcome me with open arms. And that song we wrote
that first week I was here was Heard of Texas,
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which was the north star of this whole project. I'll
play some Heart of Texas. This is actually the last
track on the album, right on the eight Songs book,
God Say Cabs. I guess that's all when you say
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that was the north star of the project. What do
you mean? When I wrote it? I had They were like,
what's your style of music? Like? What genre are you in? Country?
And I just blurted out dreaming country, and I just
totally made that up. But you know, they have dream
pop stuff, and so I thought that was a pretty
good idea of who I was as an artist, And um,
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I just wanted this whole project to feel very dreaming country.
And I think that has a lot to do with
me being influenced by Stevie Nicks and or Jones. Did
you sing any Stevie Nicks on American Idol Dreams? Did you? Yeah?
I mean all that even speaking dreaming, all that feels
like a blur to me. Now, were you with walker
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Hey's on the same sit where walker Borough is in
the same season? I mean, for me, that was my
favorite season. But like walker Borough still plays with me
and is like, right, isn't he like the nicest guy?
And so is Emma Emma play at the she does.
Emma opened for me for an entire tour playing. I
would do stand up with theaters and she would open
for me. But yeah, that was a really good like
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group of people. And what's funny about like an American
Idol now is that people don't look at it like
they used to. Used to come off that show. People like, oh,
it's American Idol. Now people look at you, find any
way possible to make any connection with people, build a platform,
and then if you're good, come to town. We'll make
even better, right. I feel that way with a lot
of people, like Chase just one the show, and I
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was telling him same thing. I was telling you, you
have to move town. Ye Like, you may think that
you're gonna do what you're doing, but they're bad. They're
good and bad about idol is bad is once you're off,
it goes away. Nobody gives crab anymore. But that's also
good because you're not pigeonholed as the Idol person. And
you'll have to do in he used for a bit,
and people will ask you your first time around, they're
gonna ask about American Idol, and you're gonna kind of
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grit your teeth and be like, I really wouldn't want
to talk about American Idol. But you'll do it the
second time. You won't even be a thing anymore, you know,
And that's what's especially if you're good, and you're really good,
and I always knew you were really good, and I
would always are, you know. It wasn't a lot of
people that I would genuinely care about. But I remember,
you know you did. You helped me out a lot.
You've built my confidence in a lot of way because
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I had somebody in my corner. You were somebody who
didn't know how good they were yet. And I remember
telling you that, like, you're so good. You have no
idea how good you are. And I didn't think you
would win because of the how the people vote on
that show and who votes um Lane one Lane one
Lane is a good looking dude, and you know the
people that are voting on that show, they're mostly looking
for for a young, good looking dude. I think we
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knew that. But you came off and I was so
proud you moved here. And I was checking up on
and I was watching videos you were doing. I would
see him from Rachel. Rachel was because you know, I'm
a red light too. Did you know that I did?
So I was keeping up with you, and then I
saw you started to kind of, you know, make music,
and I listened to it, and I listen to anybody's
music because I never want to kind of be I
never want to like be the person that is giving
(23:09):
people advice. I don't want to be advice guy and
music yet, but I'm really proud that you're here, and
I think you're gonna do just awesome things. And I
saw you were doing a radio tour last week. I'm
still doing radio tour virtually you are. That's how you know,
are you gonna do? You're gonna drive around and see
people eventually, I hope. So yeah, it was supposed to
be like that, but with you know, COVID cases going up,
when they start to spend money on you, you know
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they believe in you in this town because there. I mean,
they could spend money in many different ways, but when
they spend it on an artist and you have a
team that will stab somebody to make it to get
a hit, that they will run someone over the car.
If I were standing in the way of some song
doings and they would run me over, both of them
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would would shoot me with a jet But so all
that said, like, do you feel like now you feel
mature enough and your songwriting and singing to actually go
out and do this thing on a on a major level. Yeah,
I do. And it feels really weird saying that, but
I just feel really grateful. I feel like everything has
fallen into my lap. In place and and I don't,
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you know, really know how, but I'm just I'm very
very lucky and thankful. Were you good as a kid?
Like were you doing in like seven year old? I
guess if you did it at nine? You did? But
you know, I sing really nasally, like through my nose,
really bad, and so I didn't really discover my voice.
And I knew I couldn't belt like Carrie Underwood or
Martine McBride, and I thought that made me like suck
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as an artist, but or a vocalist. And but after
you know, discovering Nora Jones and Cvnicks, I feel like,
if you're twelve or thirteen and you're singing like you are,
were you known as the kid that likes to do us? Yes? Yes,
I was the kid that singing crazy? But fancy kline
was your go to? Yes if you were. If you're
(24:56):
doing karaoke and they had crazy, would you get to
sing it? Do you still sing that in a show
or you know? I don't. I haven't seen it in years?
Are you playing shows right now? Um? I'm doing like
writers rounds when I can here? When is she going out? Rachel?
I hope soon? Maybe this fall if everything, Yeah, that's
that's exciting. You don't say it, don't say anything right now,
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but do you have is it with somebody you're pretty
pumped about? You can tell me after we don't sit here. Okay,
that's pretty cool. I'm excited. Yeah, I hope so so okay,
what's the goal? What's the goal for this year? Like
before December thirty one? What do you what? Do you
kind of hope has happened? I hope that my song
goes on radio and does good? You know what is
(25:41):
the single? As a hard treasure? Okay, let me let
me play some treasure here? I'm talking about you know,
(26:05):
great songwriters. You wrote this with Jesse, Joe Dylan, Jimmy Robbins,
and Laura Beld. Yeah. When you get in a room
like that, is there any sort of intimidation when you
first walk out? And I knew all of them before, um,
but do you know just walking in all three of
them together? Yeah, it was really intimidating. But they're such
great people and so talented that I just, you know,
trust that it's going to go really well. Do you
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tell them I'm pretty intimidated by this room? Um? No?
Do you do? You walk in with all the with
the idea of the big idea and go, okay, I
got the idea? Or do you kind of follow leads?
It's it's always different. Sometimes I have an idea that
I just really want to write that day. But the
day I wrote Treasure, Laura looked at me and said
we were playing around with a saying woman's trash is
(26:47):
another men's treasure, And she said, would you call yourself
trash in a song? And I was like, yeah, here
is on the fence, two stays, a kid up with car,
a party of color, not widows, back post change, I
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could change my club. I don't know. I'm back in,
but I never been all the fence. About has your
mom been out here yet? Yeah? Oh she has? Yeah,
(27:37):
she she comes out, you know, she tries to come
out every couple of months. And what does she think
about it now? Now that we're you know, a year,
year and a half later, she's just still in awe
of it all? She um. We talked every day and
she's just she's really proud and she still cries about it.
Does she still want to move here? If you said, Mom,
I'd like you to move here, would she? Um? I
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feel like she has so much family in our hometown
that you know, and she's the caretaker of everybody. She
loves to take care of people. So I feel like, um,
she's gonna stay there for a while. But my brother
is actually moving here next week to go to Belmont.
Now was that the same decision he would have made
before you came here? I don't know. I don't know,
but you know, he wants to go to law school
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and they have a good three and three program, and
he's excited. I don't know what three and three means.
Just six years and you're done with law school. I
got it. I guess I thought it was like I
didn't know it till So, are you guys gonna live together? Yep,
he's moving in with me. I gotta I gotta three
vegemo ram house that I just got and so he's
going to stay upstairs. That's pretty cool. Excited about that,
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I am. I'm excited. You know, we're seven years apart,
so I feel like we didn't really get to be
that close as kids. You're seven years apart, he's a
lot younger than you. You have to be the big sister,
then that's yeah. I don't know whether to be a
cool sister or the strict sister. You can be both. Yeah,
as long I don't know the stricts the word, but
you could be the sister of that makes him have
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to be responsible. Wow, you're gonna you're seven years older
than him. You're gonna have to watch over this town.
Have you been out? Have you been going out at all?
Like at night? Like, yeah, you get trouble here? Yeah,
and quickly quickly, oh, I you know, I did my
fair share of Broadway, went on into here, and you
have to a little bit what is your hometown? Think
about this? And you like when they when you go
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on idol and now you're going to be a big star,
like what what do they think? What are they doing?
I feel like they're very proud, you know. I went home,
I think for a little bit during Idol and there
was just you know, my face on every sign and
it was just really cool. But they're they're still really
really supportive. And you know, I'll get on Facebook and
I'll see they're sharing the music and it's really cool.
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Well let's kay Booth. I'm super proud of you, thank you,
thank you for having me on here. It's it's an honor. No.
We tried to have you last week but were too
busy with the radio tour. Being a big shot, that's
a grea problem to have. I was like, hey, Mike,
let's get um you know Laci and and he was like,
all right, it's like, well she has a radio towards
this time and this at this time. And I was like,
dang it, but good for her. It's always a great
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problem to be busy. How's your voice like? You feel like?
I feel like it's it's good you. Are you having
to retrain yourself to sing in certain ways because you're
singing so much? Yes? Yes, a d percent. I feel like, um,
I feel like I've worked on it a lot too,
meaning you practice with someone. Do you have a vocal No? No,
but I just remember what Nick taught me, which is
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my vocal coach, And yeah, what do you teach you? Humming?
Just warming up? And he said I should swim, which
I haven't been swimming. But what does swimming do for what?
I think I have problems with, like breathing my lungs,
so I think swimming helps build that muscle or whatever.
So you have these eight songs, let me play one
more before you go play me shuffle. My contract is
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Realwace moyot my heart on shuff And you wrote all
these songs, which with a new artist isn't often the
case because it's just hey, let's just try to grab
the best songs we possibly can and then we'll Um,
how important was it to you to to write? And
by the way, all the songs are great? I think
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other artists would cut these if you weren't, you know,
cutting them. Um was it important to you to write
all the songs? You know? Once I moved to Nashville
and got the hang of co writing, it became really
I became obsessed with it. And so yeah, at that point,
after I wrote Hard to Texas, I think I was like, yeah,
I want to write all the songs. And I did
do that. I went to the pitch meetings and got
pitched a bunch of amazing songs. But I think, yeah,
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I just wanted I knew I wanted to write all
of them. The one you did with Charles Kelly, did
you guys write that together? So how how does that
right happen? Um? He is signed to Big Machines, so
that I think that helped. And Um, who did somebody
show my music? So was that on purpose? That was
on purpose? It was? It was like, hey, Charles right
with her for her? Yeah? Was it right with her
(32:11):
for her? As a duet? Did you guys get in
the room and write this song as a duet? No,
we didn't, but he hopped like right after we wrote it.
He hopped on because we were demoing it and um,
his vocals. I was just like, you have to do
that in actual recording and you know, turn up his
vocals because he's just so talented. Isn't it crazy? How
good people really are here? I know we talked about
(32:31):
at the beginning, but insane. I will go to places
or even on American Idol or from touring, and people
like you gotta hear this person and I just want
to shake them and go you have to go to
Nashville and hear what what how people sound at a bar? Right?
Because because they're so good that even the great people
are struggling to find work because everybody is so good, right,
It's like the down Broadway and you're just like whoa.
(32:53):
And then when the Charles Kelly sings or a carry
or it just feels like there it's like aliens. Yeah,
there's a bunch of a listers here. There's a bunch
a bunch of a list alien singers. Sure, okay, listen,
you guys go follow late. What are you having? People
call you? Now? You haven't called you Lacey K? Lacy.
He can call me Lace. I always did, But I
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don't know what you're now you're making famous? I don't
know what your famous rules are? Here are people calling
you just Lacey? Some people call me Lacey K. What
do your what's your family call you? Lacy? Ladybug K.
I'm not calling you lady, but I will keep calling
you Lacy. You can follow her Lacey K. Booth on Instagram.
L A C I K A Y e um. And
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then I go, you know, check out the music. Thank you,
thank you, because I'm telling you when I get text
from people going to Dan is the greatest. He is.
He's an incredible person to that and you know what,
that's number one because a lot of people in this
time can play and produced, but he's the greatest guy.
And if you ever get a chance to hear his stories,
which I don't know how much you guys work and
told him, but he was playing for Michael Jackson. He
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told a story once, yes, and in his own band.
You know, he was kind of a rock star himself.
He told me the story once where he was in
an airport with his brother and they heard a song
over the top and he was like, dang, the guitar
part on that song is really good. Like he was
admiring somebody's playing and it was him. But when he recorded,
when he recorded it, he just recorded it by itself
(34:23):
with no lyrics or anything. Oh my god. Um, so okay,
I'm gonna I'm gonna let you go. Um and then
that's all. Rachel, do you want to say anything? Come
on up here. Yeah, she is, I know she is.
And it's weird for me sometimes I struggle whenever I
know somebody and I have to interview them like I
(34:44):
don't know them, And but I just wanted to get
you in. Some people would check out your music mostly
because it's great. There she is, Lacey K. Booth. Do
you guys follow her? And I'm sure I'll see you
at the radio show sometime soon. All right, there you go.
Host
Bobby Bones
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