Richmond Hill, Ontario's KATIE DAUSON Delivers A Sweet, Electric Love Song On New Single "Fresh Sugar"

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RICHMOND HILL, ON, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Richmond Hill, Ontario musician Katie Dauson has released "Fresh Sugar," a country rock love ballad built around the feeling of finally finding the person who makes everything else make sense. The song came together fast and unexpectedly, written on her dad's birthday, after a spin of a Raspberries record on vinyl handed her the hook and title in the same instant, and she started writing right there in the family room of her house.

That immediacy carries through the song itself, a tribute to the kind of love that hits like a freight train and never lets up. "You're just like fresh sugar baby, it's the sweetest thing I know, your lovin' drives me crazy, and you electrify my soul," she sings on the chorus, following a verse that describes the feeling as "harder than the hardest diamond, bigger than torrential rain."

Dauson recorded "Fresh Sugar" at Cleveland Sound Lab in Vaughan, Ontario with producer and engineer James Nickle, releasing the single through Frog & Bog Records. She wrote, composed, and sang the song herself, playing rhythm guitar on the track and designing the single artwork.

Dauson blends rock and roll, rockabilly, surf rock, country, folk and bluegrass into something that resists easy categorization, drawing on influences as varied as The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Fats Domino, ELO and Gordon Lightfoot. Her path into music was anything but a straight line. She studied physics and astronomy at York University and spent time at the David Dunlap Observatory under the guidance of Dr. Tom Bolton, the astronomer credited with discovering the first black hole. Health setbacks eventually pulled her away from that path, and she found her way to a local open mic, where performing her original song "Virtual Sky" changed the direction of her life for good.

Onstage, Dauson leads a full band, with Trenton Moore on drums, Lex Stultz on bass, Blake Little on lead guitar, Darren Armoogam on keyboards, and Kun Huang and Walter Chan rounding out the horn section on saxophone and flute.

With "Fresh Sugar," Dauson offers her sweetest and most direct love song yet, proof that the most powerful feelings are often the simplest ones to sing about.

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