Laci Kaye Booth Revels in the Highs and Lows of Relationships on New Album ‘Love Ain’t for The Faint of Heart’: ‘About Love In All Its Forms’
As Ella Langley continues her historic Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping streak with “Choosin’ Texas,” Stella Lefty earns her first Country Airplay chart-topper with “Boston” and Megan Moroney earlier this year earned her own Billboard 200 chart-topping project, one of Langley’s current opening acts is primed to etch her own singular mark on the country genre.
“Everything Ella’s doing, the way she shows love for everybody around her, is just so inspiring.
It really is.
I think she’s setting such a great example,” says Texas native Laci Kaye Booth, who is opening arena shows on Langley’s Dandelion Tour.
Booth just released her newest album Love Ain’t For The Faint of Heart , on Friday (Sept.
18) on Lost Highway Records.
The dozen-song set, produced by Ben West (Langley, Stephen Wilson Jr.) finds Booth further expanding on her brand of “dreamy country,” while the song’s lyrics center on reckoning with various facets of relationships.
The unraveling of a previous romantic relationship and the beginnings of her current love story with boyfriend and fellow country music artist Morgan Evans, inform her latest album.
The project also follows her previous viral hits including “George F****** Strait” and “Daddy’s Mugshot,” the latter of which draws from her relationship with and lessons learned from her father Jody Booth, a musician who was often on the road for long stretches when she was a child.
Booth wraps her velvety, dusky voice around a range of sounds, from hazy country ballads to churning rock-inspired numbers that gather inspiration from Stevie Nicks and Lana Del Rey.
Booth teams with Lukas Nelson on “The Illusion of Love” and serves up a languid, haunting rendition of an older song from her writing catalog, “Ethereal Redneck Shit,” filled with vivid imagery such as “I wanna levitate, dance on your Escalade.” “I thought this was such a representation of who I am to my core,” Booth says.
“I love a dive bar.
On my last album, I wrote the song ‘Damn Good in a Dive Bar,’ and I thought this is such a good representation of who I am at my core,” Booth says.
“I thought, ‘I can’t write another song like that, but I can at least explain that song in another way.
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