Folk pop, singer-songstress McKenzie Lockhart is happy to have both feet back in her native Alabama soil after trying her hand at pursuing music in Nashville, TN. And more than that, elated to be releasing her most authentic project to date. Raised in the storied Shoals of northern Alabama, Lockhart began to feel that her homeland was beckoning her to return from Nashville as she began to experience a longing for home grown community and a greater space to explore her own creativity. So, she packed up her things, hugged the necks of her friends in Music City, and headed south with this new purpose filling up her horizon. After moving back to Florence where she currently resides, she took the time to dig deep into her roots and invest in her local music community by establishing a house show movement called CO-OP. During this this time, Lockhart found her voice afresh and decided to channel her new sound into her first proper EP Interlaced. The writing, recording, and release of Interlaced is truly a collaborative affair that brings together many of the voices that fill Lockhart's every day life and showcases her reconnection with community and her newly revived appreciation for the soil that made her who she is. Co-writes with her fiancé Payton Pruitt of Carver Commodore and her friend Jordy Searcy of NBC's The Voice pepper its track listing. Even the recording process of Interlaced is a reflection of her desire to keep where she's been and where she's going in mind as she has rounded up Pruitt, her friend and drummer Cody Carpenter, and producer Brendan St. Gelais to flesh out these five snapshots of her life in the harrowed Smoakstack Studios in Nashville. Lockhart's brother contributed the hand-drawn artwork that graces the cover of the project, and she partnered with good friend and singer-songwriter Quinn Erwin to release Interlaced through his new artist development conglomerate Waterman Creative.