Burwood Stampede Music Festival 2024:

Season 16 American Idol Runner Up

For as long as Caleb Lee Hutchinson has been making music, he has rooted his creative process in the
brutal honesty and rich storytelling tradition of country music’s roots. Hutchinson’s voice and wit
inspired important collaborations on his 2019 self-titled debut EP, produced by Grammy winner
Kristian Bush, and 2021 follow-up, “Slot Machine Syndrome,” produced by Grammy-nominated
Americana stalwart, Brent Cobb. In 2022, Caleb self-produced the darkly themed EP, “Songs I’ll
Never Sing Again,” and wrote and starred in the accompanying short film. With his new project,
“Southern Galactic,”—produced by multi-genre artist and creator Titanic Sinclair—Hutchinson
explores new territory while maintaining his reverence for the honesty and storytelling that seeded his
love for country music as a Georgia boy listening to Mississippi John Hurt and Waylon Jennings
cassettes with his dad.