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DAKOTA EAST RELEASES THE SUPER CHILLED, YET SUPER CATCHY 'AUTUMN BLUE'


Dakota East 2024

Emerging Independent Australian artist Dakota East today releases her new super chilled, yet also super catchy “Coastal Country” banger, ‘Autumn Blue

 

It’s the follow-up to the 2024 Starmaker finalist’s popular single ‘Moving On,’ which was released in February this year.

 

With that song, Dakota East entered the Top 10 on the Countrytown Top 50 National Country Radio Airplay Chart for the first time (peaking at #8).

 

Autumn Blue’ is a reflective piece that captures the bittersweet emotions felt when a love that once seemed so perfect has run its course.

 

Set against the backdrop of changing seasons, Dakota East says the song, “explores the highs and lows of a brief but intense relationship that felt all-consuming at the time, remembering what was good but ultimately coming to terms with the need to let go.

 

As the seasons change, sometimes so does the heart,” she continues.

 

“’Autumn Blue’ is my way of saying goodbye, but with a sense of acceptance that not everything, or everyone, is meant to last.”

 

While being a fully-fledged Aussie, based full time in Melbourne, Dakota East actually grew up in a log cabin on a small island in the middle of a lake in Ontario Canada.

 

Her childhood was very much influenced by music from the likes of folk singers Neil Young, James Taylorand John Denver along with B B King and Bonnie Raitt.  

 

“The music married with the scenery so well and was the perfect soundtrack to my childhood,” says Dakota East.

 

Prior to being a Starmaker finalist in January, Dakota East had already played shows at some of Victoria’s most loved music venues while opening for the likes of Jon Stevens, Travis Collins and Wendy Matthews, plus Jo Camilleri and The Black Sorrows.

 

This year she has performed at the Deni Ute Muster and opened for Shannon Noll.

 

Her debut independent commercial release ‘Runaway’ in 2021 scored over 300,000 streams, while also being a Top 20 single on the Countrytown official national country radio chart.  

 

She followed that with ‘Feel It’ in early 2023, which also made it into the Top 30 at Australian country radio and then, most recently, the Top 10 hit ‘Moving On’ in early 2024.

 

In summing up her purpose musically, Dakota East describes her sound as “Coastal Country.”  

 

“The essence of pure, raw and unrefined musical emotion has always stayed strong within me and is what I try to evoke as an artist,” Dakota East says.  



Dakota East Autumn Blue Cover

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