Dorothy Martin talks about friendship with SLASH and new album

Dorothy Frontwoman Dorothy Martin She is fresh of writing her “hardest” album and hopes that the importance for music resonates with fans, revealed in an exclusive interview with Us every week.

“I think there are really positive news about faith and overcoming fracture and challenges,” said rock singer for 38 years OurReferring to the title song “The Way”.

The new album, on Friday, March 14, is “like a love letter to our fans, just reminds them to keep hope,” Martin explained. “It is also the hardest album I made, but on some songs there is a bit of Vibration Outlaw Country.” So it’s quite eclectic. ”

Martin’s Dorothy Group has been part of the rock scene since 2014. Their latest single “Tombstone Town” that dropped in February boasts working with guitar legend Slash. And the singer was enthusiastic about fans to see her next creative side by demonstrating her acting skills.

“It was one of the funniest videos I had to make.” I always wanted to act a little. So we went to it Quentin Tarantino Grindhouse Vibe in the video, with actors and narration. ”

Below gives the rock goddess Our The Inside SCOOP on the new album of her band, Wild Tour Stories and more:

Us every week: You describe Way Like your most difficult album. How do you?

Dorothy Martin: It’s hard, but I think there are also some songs that could really exceed the TOP 40 or Christian radio – even the Earth. But we can’t just leave our fan base, so there are some really heavy guitars and there are two songs “I’m alive” and “The Devil” – these are the most difficult songs on the album. So we had to throw a little bit there, and that’s the truth of my roots.

Our: Say Our about working with the rock icon.

DM: When you meet the people you are looking at, and they are on Earth and humble and kind, and all those amazing things despite the legendary state they have achieved – it is one of these people. It just reassures you and makes you feel comfortable.

Our: What is the best advice of Slash?

DM: Something that we both relate to and we have in common is recovery. Because in Rock and Roll it’s just charming and addiction and alcoholism run in my family. He looked at me and was like, “This is your year. This is your time and all you have to do is stay sober, not-sabotage, don’t get in your head and you are constantly doing what you do. “So it is so nice to have mentors and friends who have gone through it – who were in the field of veterans who are also sober. Because it can be very scary to be sober and you don’t have to do it yourself. It’s just a better way to live, and it’s a message I want to share with anyone who reads it.

Our: Creating music seems to be very healing for you.

DM: It’s healing for me, but it’s not about me – it’s a much bigger picture. I hope it will recover for millions and millions of people. If one lyric, if one song can plant the seed and save someone’s life, that’s what it is all about. We’re together, you don’t have to do it yourself. So I have to remember, it’s bigger than me.

For me, music used to be so one -dimensional, and now it’s a wider thing that it’s a vehicle for a message. So I have to be responsible with that.

Our: Do you have dreams of dreaming you would like to become a reality?

DM: There were many. (laughs) Macy Gray And I have to make a remake (a) Dolly Parton Song with Dolly Parton. AND Love Dolly Parton. Country Music is the reason I sing, because when I started learning to sing, they were for some reason a rural song. And then I branched into a rock and all the other things.

But, cooperation, that’s such a good question. Hardy Would be really great. Lainey Wilson It would be amazing. And if I could go back and do something like a duet Johnny CashI would like in a heart rhythm.

Our: When you prepare for the show, is there something you always have to do before you get to the stage?

DM: I have to pray. Stay hydrated. Try to stay calm. I always assure myself that I am in my stage (a) my make -up, well in advance, because this is the last thing I want to worry about and let my voice warm up and feel good. And then it is so Carrie Underwood song“Jesus takes the steering wheel.” Whatever happens at this stage.

Our: Are you ever nervous before you come across a stage?

DM: Now it’s more fun. Previously I was very, very nervous, but after I did it for a while, it’s more fun and exciting, you know? Of course we have a good show and a bad show and I just try to live at the moment. And if we have a bad show, for example, it’s like, “Eh, now it’s over.” It’s in the past. I look forward to the next, but I wouldn’t say I’m afraid. It’s exciting. You are very excited, you get lifted and it’s fun.

Our: Is there anything you do to calm down a little before you take a microphone?

DM: Yeah, like a kickbox or something, or just try to shake nervous energy from my body. Or sometimes just jokes. Or earn really strange sounds, deep breathing. Sometimes (it) helps.

Our: It is obvious that many fans are in the audience and you never know what things they want – autograph or request. Did there be any that made you laugh or even raised your eyebrows?

DM: It is always strange when someone says, “Sign my sweaty breasts” because it destroys our promontory and then our heads no longer work. (Laughs) So they like guitar tips, they want memorabilia. They want selfies. They only want five or hugs. We give them anything we have at hand. Sam ColonMy guitarist, evokes the guitar constantly choosing in the crowd and they love it.

Our: It can be a bit unpredictable in terms of the interaction of the publication-singing outside the key to holding their phones to record. How do you concentrate when you are on stage? Or do you only play with the audience?

DM: There are things that can disturb. I had people on my face with the camera (all the time) the whole show and it can kill vibrations, but it really happens only in a super intimate environment – a small club, where someone is too close to comfort. You just go into thinking. I’m just going to power mode. I don’t know what happens, I just let the spirit take over and go for it.

If it is close to contact and sings outside the key (laughs), so we have monitors in our ears. I don’t want to hear them, but sometimes I pulled out my ears and they would sing out of the key and usually just break a joke.

Our: What is your craziest concert experience or tour?

DM: The best show-most, the most amazing moment-was when we played a few years ago at Rockville (Music Festival). I think Metallica was the main. It was 30 or 40,000 people. One of the bands left because someone thought he had a Covida, and they came across a later slot. So with the transition, the crowd made a little wait, and the sun dropped and began to sing my name, which never happened.

It was just a huge sea of ​​people who were excited to be at the concert. They were probably very excited that Metallica arrived soon. But it was an amazing show. I have a picture taken by my manager of the tour (it was) fired in my office, and that’s just a moment I will never forget.

Our: What did it look like?

DM: I was touched and shocked. The audience really affects the show. Their energy really affects us. Artists, we are very empathetic and intuitive and we can feel all their energy. Sometimes you get a bad crowd and that’s hard. You have to make it a little fake and be a professional and do your job and sing through the set. But when you have a noisy, entertaining electric crowd, there is nothing like that.

Our: What song is the most demanding to play live?

DM: “Gifts from the Holy Spirit” can be really hard because the verses start in my higher end of my reach. So we put it in the file later so that everyone warms up a little. It is a song with high energy, but it is also a really rewarding song. It’s fun to sing live, even though it’s difficult. But if I have a great hard vocal day, it wouldn’t be the first song I choose. (laughs)

Our: What about your favorite song that plays live?

I feel like it’s changing with every album. Because there are songs I have been singing for decades, and then there are new songs that we practice and try this upcoming tour that starts in April. So I’m really looking forward to trying “Tombstone Town”.

“MUD” was so fun to make live. I flew on my pants seat. I had no chance to practice. We had two shows with Godsmack; We opened for them. I literally had no chance to practice and thought, “Oh no, I’ll have to sing on the tracks.” And somehow we had to Soundcheck and I tried several times, and I’m glad, “Oh, that’s great fun.”

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