{"id":2447276,"date":"2019-08-07T15:26:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T21:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=868494"},"modified":"2019-08-07T15:26:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T21:26:49","slug":"country-singer-songwriter-caylee-hammack-on-her-love-of-david-bowie-finding-strength-as-an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/country-singer-songwriter-caylee-hammack-on-her-love-of-david-bowie-finding-strength-as-an-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Singer-Songwriter Caylee Hammack on Her Love of David Bowie, Finding Strength as an Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Caylee Hammack is from Ellaville, Georgia, but never really felt like she fit in; she often describes herself as a \u201chippie in a hillbilly town.\u201d Last Friday, she joined Rolling Stone<\/em> for \u201cMorning Sessions,\u201d an interview series with writers and editors from the staff, and described how she made it from her small town to her current place as one of the most exciting new talents coming out of Nashville<\/a>\u2019s country scene.<\/p>\n

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The journey, as she described it in her interview, was not without struggle. After high school, she turned down a scholarship to stick with her first love. When that didn\u2019t work out, she began to plot her way to Nashville, and to a music career. To get there required a few weeks spent in her car, camped out in a Target parking lot, until Hammack was able to find steadier gigs singing for four hours a night at honky tonk bars on the notoriously hard-nosed scene on Broadway. She spent years there (and while she says it didn\u2019t pay great, it allowed her to stop sleeping in her car), learning the power of hard work and, likely more importantly, honing her craft as a singer and a songwriter. \u201cBut getting to do what you love every day\u2026 even if it\u2019s crappy, you\u2019re getting to do what you love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFamily Tree,\u201d her lead single, is a sharp-witted, keenly song about chronicling what seems to be a typical family (albeit with an atypically catchy chorus, courtesy of Hammack\u2019s tornado of a voice). According to Hammack\u2019s interview, it\u2019s all true \u2014 including the line, \u201cSister smoked all the Camels in the county last week\u201d \u2014 and while her family wasn\u2019t entirely pleased with all the chronicling, they do seem to appreciate the fact that it\u2019s a great song. \u201cYeah, we all know we have issues but we don\u2019t talk about it at supper,\u201d Hammack explains. \u201cIt was really about exploring, in-depth, all the quirks but doing it in a humor-filled, loving way. I\u2019m not judging anyone; I\u2019m the crazy one in my family. I admit it!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Caylee Hammack is from Ellaville, Georgia, but never really felt like she fit in; she often describes herself as a \u201chippie in a hillbilly town.\u201d Last Friday, she joined Rolling Stone for \u201cMorning Sessions,\u201d an interview series with writers and editors from the staff, and described how she made it from her small town to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 22:50:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}