Thank you for listening to Big Machine Radio. I'm Becca, and I'm excited today because we have
something special. If you're an American Idol fan, you probably know the name Lacey K. Booth.
She participated on season 17 of Idol, made it pretty far, but now she's here in Nashville,
and she is pursuing her country music dream, and she just put out her first collection of music.
It is self-titled, There Are Eight Songs, and we're going to play them all. Plus,
we're lucky enough to have Lacey here to tell us about these songs because she had a hand
in writing every single one of them. But first, if you're not familiar with Lacey,
Lacey, tell people just a little bit about growing up.
I grew up in Livingston, Texas, a small town where everybody knows everybody.
My parents were actually really young when they had me. They were 15 and 17,
and they ended up divorcing when I was three. And my dad is a traveling Texas country musician,
and some of my earliest memories is...
Sitting on the couch with my dad while he played guitar and singing with him.
My dad loved Merle Haggard and Willie and Waylon, and so we would sing old school country music. But
what I really enjoyed, my go-to song was Crazy by Patsy Cline.
Dang, that is a big song for a little girl. But I understand that music was actually
around you all the time because your father's side of the family had a lot of music going on.
So my dad's side of the family comes from a long line of musicians,
and they're all musicians.
And they have an annual jubilee called the Ogden Jubilee. And I remember the first time I got on
stage, I was probably around the age of eight, and I sang Crazy by Patsy Cline, and I got a
standing ovation.
That's amazing. That had to make you feel good, even at eight years old.
It did. I think it lit a fire in me, and I was ready to roll after that.
Well, I say let's go ahead and roll into your self-titled debut collection of music.
The first song on this album,
I think might be my favorite. The first time I heard it, I fell in love with it.
Please tell people about Used to You.
Used to You is about a relationship that you know this person so well, you're so used to them. But
it's actually a different spin on the phrase used to you. It's being used to somebody in a really
good way. You know them, and you love them, and you know them by heart. I think this is one of the
most real songs I've ever written. On the day it was written, it was actually a Zoom write. And
before I zoomed in with my co-writer, I was like, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. I'm
Sam Ellis and Sarah Hayes. I actually wrote probably half the chorus by myself because I
was just so inspired that day. And I got on and I said, I don't know if this is anything,
but we can totally not do it. And I sang it to them and they said, oh, we totally have to do
that one. So that made me feel really good. It's probably one of my most favorite songs I've ever
written. Well, like I said, it's one of my favorite songs you've ever written, too. So
thank you for that. It just has kind of a soothing, sweet tone to it. It's called Used to You from
Lacey K.
Booth.