Exclusive: Caylee Hammack discusses recruiting Foy Vance for ‘The Hill’

The new track is available now

Capitol Records Nashville’s Caylee Hammack has tapped Northern Irish singer-songwriter Foy Vance to feature in her vulnerable new song “The Hill.” In the track, Vance weaves his robust vocals between Hammack’s fiddly trills, delivering a fiery duet illustrating two lovers intertwined in a war of love.

“I always tell people in my concerts, almost every single night, that if you never ask that question that is eating at you, the answer’s always going to be no. You never give the question the chance to have the answer,” she tells us in an unreleased clip from The Music Universe Podcast. “I just love Foy Vance dearly. I remember the first time I ever heard him and I got full-body goosebumps, so I thought you know, I can’t say the saying on stage every single night and not ask the question since I want to sing with him, and so we asked, he said he was willing, and we got to meet in the studio.”

Hammack has carved a place for herself in country music, acclaimed as an artist. Now laying the groundwork for her next creative chapter, the rising star is rooted in fostering her most authentic sound, working alongside Brother Osborne’s John Osborne, together paying homage to the stories and characters that shaped her into the person she is today. Hammack released her debut record If It Wasn’t For You with writer and producer credits for the entire project. Tapping Chris Stapleton for a guest vocal on a new version of her deeply personal song “Small Town Hypocrite,” co-written and co-produced by Hammack, she garnered even more acclaim. The “Artist to Watch” picked up an ACM Music Event Of The Year for her performance with Miranda Lambert on “Fooled Around And Fell In Love.”

Buddy Iahn
Buddy Iahn