Watch: Caroline Spence Claims 2013 Lyric Contest Grand Prize

Caroline Spence, winner of the 2013 American Songwriter Lyric Contest Grand Prize, chose to demo “What You Don’t Know,” one of her “catchier songs,” at a Music Row studio.

“I wrote this song a really long time ago,” said the Charlottesville, Virginia native, who moved to Nashville three years ago to pursue a songwriting career. “I wrote it in high school and I found these lyrics, and I remembered the melody which is sort of shocking.”

Spence’s demo session at Omni Sound Studios was part of her prize package, which also included a co-write with Grammy-nominated recording artist Lee Brice. Spence said that she had never written with a “pop-country” performer before. The two worked on a song called “Sitting Pretty.”

Watch the video of the co-write and demo session below. Got lyrics? The next Lyric Contest, with Ashley Monroe as the dream co-write, starts February 3rd.

Video shot and edited by Neal Dahlgren