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‘You Go Girl’
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Dawson County High School graduate and country musician Peytan Porter is releasing her first EP “In My Head” on June 24.
North Georgia native pens debut country music project Story by Julia Fechter
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awson County High School alumna and country music artist Peytan Porter has stayed busy in 2022. The 24-year-old Dawsonville native will play at the Country Music Association’s CMA Fest in Nashville this weekend, and she will release her debut EP “In My Head” June 24 via major digital music retailers. Porter was born and raised in Dawsonville as the second of three sisters. A 2019 DCN article detailed how, as a child, she developed a passion for writing and performing music. After graduating in 2016, Porter moved to Nashville, Tennessee to attend Lipscomb University and study communications and music. She interned at a music publisher before graduating early from college in 2020. Then last year, she signed a joint-venture deal with Jody Williams Songs and Warner Chappell Music.
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Over the past year or so, Porter has built a steady following on social media, made up of hundreds of thousands of followers and subscribers between Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. “In My Head” features the seven songs “Why We Broke Up,” “Champagne Problems,” “First Stone,” “You Go Girl,” “Therapy,” “Someone’s Love Song” and the title track. Porter said her songs cover the gamut in terms of emotions. The words are all drawn from authentic personal experiences, from relationship troubles to hoping for the right person or dreaming of more prosperous circumstances. She explained that she took a bit of that mountain towntype sound with her to Nashville for when she wrote the songs. “It’s not the southern Georgia, red dirt [type of style]. It’s Continued, Page 23
