![]() ![]() On the record, Cottrell was able to explore influences such as the old-school country her parents played while she was growing up. It maintains good continuity by nature of her writing, voice and delivery. “The only thing that was made clear to me was that I should not be afraid of the reverb - that’s kind of her trademark,” Deckelman says. ![]() Producer Daniel Deckelman says Cottrell probably is one of the most gifted singer-songwriters working in Richmond. Kevin Wade Inge is the only other musician, adding pedal steel and a guitar converted to sound like a sitar. ![]() Released by local Forcefield Records, the album was recorded within the last year at Snake Oil Recording in Manchester. #YOUTUNES DON WILLIAMS SONGS UPDATE#Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. Other highlights such as “Oak Grove” show her straight-shooting, somewhat dark lyrical style (“God is not my problem / and my flesh is weak / I’m the kind of girl who needs a devil in a man to satisfy me”), and the beautiful ballad, “Maybe It’s True” (“maybe I’ll just never be that take home kind of girl … maybe I’m just hard up for that sun down kind of world”). “I chose the songs chronologically by going back to some of the earliest, like ‘Gold,’ which I wrote when I was 18 for a close friend who died,” she says. She says her bandmates have been supportive, as have Windhand fans across the country. After two albums with Windhand and some solo shows, she decided it was time to record her old songs. The band members liked what they heard and Cottrell became the focal point of the group, swaying beneath crushing waves of stoner metal. “So I sent some songs and was like, fuck it, and I went.” My boyfriend at the time kept saying he was going to audition but he would never go,” Cottrell says, finishing her Bloody Mary. “There was this Craigslist ad for a band. She moved to Richmond to study English at Virginia Commonwealth University but didn’t get to finish her degree. Early influences included Layne Staley of Alice in Chains you can still hear some of that ’90s grunge influence in her vulnerable delivery. When she goes back home she still jams with her dad’s classic rock band and indulges her mother’s “obsession” with karaoke.Ĭottrell explains that she was always into heavy music, but it was exclusively a boy’s club, so she began writing her own songs at 13. He told me to tell you he was my muse.”Ĭottrell grew up in a musical family in King George County (“a mixture of country people and Navy brats” she says), playing clarinet in the school band. “A lot of local musicians work for him,” she says. Today she’s come to Mojo’s from her day job taking care of John Downing, the owner of local club Strange Matter, who has spinal muscular atrophy. ![]() “It’s a way I hold my hand so I can make any note major or minor by just moving a finger.”Ĭottrell has an intense gaze, but her face melts easily into a smile. Everything is in dropped D tuning, and I use my claw technique,” she says. Instead of doom-metal riffs, her quietly fingerpicked guitar-playing anchors the heartfelt vocals, which sound more world-weary than most 29-year-olds. Many are hardscrabble, desolate songs told from a strong woman’s perspective - sort of a mixture of Lucinda Williams’ grit and Cat Power’s ravaged, soulful blues. Next week she’s releasing her self-titled solo debut, a starkly personal collection of acoustic songs that fall somewhere between languid Southern gothic folk and old-school country. For most of her life, Dorthia Cottrell has been the lone woman at the headbanger’s ball.Īs the lead singer for local metal band Windhand, Cottrell’s bewitching, reverb-soaked vocals helped that group emerge from the pack with national critical acclaim and steady touring during the last few years, including to Europe and Australia. ![]()
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