With a country-rock twang all his own, Blake Dantier is an emerging name in Australia's country music scene.
2020 has already seen his previous single 'Ash & Dust' enjoy an extended stay in The Music Network's Country Hot 50 Airplay Charts. While Blake was recently awarded the Country Rock Song Of The Year at the Tamworth Songwriters Salute Awards.Inspired by outlaws and star-crossed singers, Dantier's song writing draws from timeless tropes like break-ups, loneliness, drinking and dying.
His next musical instalment is the rollicking, country-rock ballad 'I'd Do It Again', a song "about growing up, falling in love and making mistakes," Dantier says.
"It's about owning those mistakes, despite how much it might have messed you up at the time and being proud of who you are because of them."
Ahead of the song's release tomorrow (21 August), scenestr is pumped to premiere the accompanying music video for 'I'd Do It Again' today. Enjoy.
"When we tracked 'I'd Do It Again' it was the second song of five that we did that day up at Simon Johnson's studio, Hillbilly Hut," Blake says.
"We tried to time it with the videographer, Michael Carpenter, so that he would get there and be able to film us live tracking it.
"We took a few runs at the song before we got the final version; with everybody playing together and me singing it live.
"Michael just captured everything we did and later pieced it into the music video. I didn't want the typical 'mimed' music video, so I made sure that what we got was 100 per cent live."
The birth of the song occurred thanks to a little intervention from Mary Jane. "Fortunately I didn't have to work too much to get this song out (unlike most!)," begins Blake.
"I wrote the first two verses and the chorus one night in early 2019, after smoking a little weed.
"I started singing off the top of my head and my fingers just knew what to do on the guitar.
"I came back to it a couple of months later and decided it needed a third verse. I used the same technique, only this time sober."
