With COVID-19 dramatically reducing the amount of live music and quarantine impacting everyone’s day to day life, CMAO Rising Star Nominee Dustin Bird was inspired to write, produce and record his debut EP ‘The Hard Way’ in a live off the floor format, backed by an all star backed band. Dustin now releases his debut single, ‘Every Little Town – Live Off the Floor’. As a Canadian country artist Dustin Bird has had 5 Top 100 Canada Country National Airplay singles in the last 12 months as writer, producer and artist. Not only a singer/songwriter, but also an emerging producer in his own right, Bird has taken the production reins on this project. 

Suicide has taken far too many lives ...The number of suicides among Australian Defence Force personnel is enormous. This song is to honour all our servicemen and women who have come home “broken” and who have sought peace by the saddest of outcomes – suicide. “To the veterans still fighting a crappy system that continually fails them and lets them down, and to those who continue to serve, including my own son, we support you, we thank you and we love you. I hope this helps send a strong message that we need a Royal Commission into veteran suicides – and we need it NOW! We can’t just sit back and watch one more veteran fall. My own brother is “Another Veteran That’s Broken” and I will not stop fighting for him and every other veteran who deserves better.”  - Gina Timms