LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Small Town Hypocrite’ - Caylee Hammack

We start this week with a few recommendations of artists to see at the C2C Festiva in London next week. First up is Georgia born singer-songwriter Caylee Hammack, with a personal and reflective new single about small-town life and relationships. A very honest and raw track about Caylee's experience of setting aside her dreams for love and a no-good guy, who then summons her personal strength to move on. Caylee is also currently working on her debut album.

Caylee Hammack constantly felt like a self-described “hippie in a hillbilly town” in her tiny hometown of Ellaville, Georgia. “I used to pray every night as a kid, ‘God, just please make me different. Don’t make me like everyone else,’” she remembers. Caylee is indeed refreshingly different. She’s a country expressionist, a grungy firebrand and a spiritual seeker. And at only 25, she has already packed a full life into just a few years, using fake IDs to get gigs around South Georgia, turning down a college scholarship for a love that burned out just a few months later, sleeping in her car when she arrived in Nashville and then losing her home in an electrical fire. “My dad has always said that the most beautiful and strongest things are forged in the fire,” she says. “Iron is nothing until you work it in a fire. Glass cannot be blown without intense heat. You can’t make anything beautiful or strong without a little heat.”.