Emerging country artist Dustin Bird definitively stakes his claim in alternative and pop with the infectious love anthem “The Heart of It.”
Released on March 31 along with a vintage-feeling music video, “The Heart of It” highlights Dustin’s welcoming and inviting vocal performance within a lush country-rock orchestration including lap steel and banjo. The song is sincerely delivered, consistently engaging, and ultimately heartwarming.
“Heart Of It speaks to that point in every relationship that has become routine – do we go on with the status quo, or do we lean in to an honest conversation and assessment of where we are truly at,” Dustin shares. “The opportunity to either keep things as they are, or stoke the embers and reignite the fire. Do we glide along the surface or go deep into the heart of it?”
Based in Canada, Dustin’s 2021 debut album Unscripted debuted in the Top 10 on the iTunes Canadian Country chart. He was then nominated for multiple awards include the CMAOntario’s Rising Star, the Indie Award’s Country Artist of the Year, and won Ontario Independent Recording Artist at the London Music Awards.
Find “The Heart of It” on the Alchemical Records Multigenere Mixture playlist on Spotify and YouTube.
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