Laci Kaye Booth spent the fall singing about love gone wrong in dive bars from Chicago to Los Angeles. She will spend the week before Valentine's Day singing it to the people who knew her first. The Lost Highway Records artist announced the Love Letters to Texas tour this week, a four-night run through her home state. It opens February 10, 2027, in the Cambridge Room at House of Blues Dallas. From there she moves to the Bronze Peacock at House of Blues Houston on February 11, Dosey Doe in The Woodlands on February 12 and The Continental Club in Austin on February 13.
An artist presale opened Wednesday, October 28, at 10 a.m. local time, and the general sale begins Friday, October 30, at the same hour. All four rooms are small by design. The Cambridge Room and the Bronze Peacock are the club spaces inside their respective Houses of Blues, and The Continental Club has been running on South Congress Avenue since 1955.
Booth grew up in Livingston, a Polk County town about 75 miles north of Houston, in a family that already had a working country singer in it. Her father, Jody Booth, gets a nod on "Daddy's Mugshot," one of the sharper cuts on her third album, Love Ain't For The Faint Of Heart. The record arrived September 18 as her first release for the revived Lost Highway label. Ben West produced the record, as he did her 2024 album The Loneliest Girl In The World, and the two also wrote the single "Pathetic" together with Melissa Peirce.
"I knew from the very beginning that this was going to be an album about love," Booth said when the album was announced in June. The cover made clear which kind, picturing her in an embrace while a mushroom cloud blooms on the horizon. Lukas Nelson sings on "The Illusion Of Love," a song she has said she wrote while she was sick with mold poisoning and did not yet know it. "I think what I love most about it is how the final record, produced by Ben West, encapsulates the feeling of illusion maybe even more than the lyrics alone do," she said.
The Texas dates close a long stretch of road. Booth supported Ella Langley on the Dandelion Tour this year, joining her on stage some nights for a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams." That run included a two-night stand at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles in October. In between, she played her first headline tour, seven shows booked into honky-tonks and dive bars. It began September 27 at Carol's Pub in Chicago and finished October 15 at Desert 5 Spot in Los Angeles. FLAUNT published her tour diary from that Los Angeles week.
The path to a headline run took longer than most. Booth finished fifth on American Idol in 2019 and signed to Big Machine, which dropped her in 2022 after a self-titled debut. She has since described that record as more straightforward than the music she makes now. The Loneliest Girl In The World, released on Geffen, put her on tours with Langley, Parker McCollum, Megan Moroney and the Marcus King Band and earned her a Grand Ole Opry debut. Spotify named her one of its Artists to Watch for 2026, and CMT placed her in its Next Women of Country class. She is not the only Idol alumna having a year on the country side; Lauren Alaina returned to No. 1 at country radio this month after a nine-year wait.
What Booth makes is harder to file than most of what sits beside it on the format. Her own description of the sound pairs the swoon of dream-pop with Nashville songcraft, and the album moves between hollowed-out ballads and tracks that shimmer at the edges. That lane has company this year, with Lana Del Rey's duet with Zach Bryan drawing from the same well. "For a long time I was afraid of how many sad-girl songs I was writing," she has said, naming Stevie Nicks and Merle Haggard as her two main inspirations.
The February shows are not the end of the calendar. Booth plays St. Pete Country Fest in St. Petersburg, Florida, on November 20, and she is booked for Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California, over the weekend of April 23 to 25, 2027. In May she heads to Australia to open for Megan Moroney, playing Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on May 8 and Afterpay Arena in Sydney on May 11. Two nights at Brisbane Entertainment Centre on May 14 and 15 close the run.
Those arena dates will put her in front of the biggest rooms of her career so far. The Texas rooms will put her in front of the smallest, including one in Houston that sits about an hour's drive from the town where her mother bought her first acoustic guitar.
