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00:00my favorite radio station what's up that's right dorothy so good to see you how are you
00:05good good busy press day and albums out today it's very exciting i see you got guests from
00:11the holy ghost in the background that's pretty cool on vinyl hell yeah yeah oh well i don't
00:17have a cop i should have a copy here at the desk but um the way is out today and um tell terry car
00:23i said what's up i will will do so yeah i mean first off we're super excited that uh dorothy
00:28you and your band are going to be playing the mmbq coming up but of course we want to talk about the
00:32way your fourth studio album which is out today the iraq nation i mean super duper excited um you
00:40know how exciting like we let go through a couple of the emotions and some of the feelings uh especially
00:46like week of leading up to release day but here we are on release day how you feeling what are you
00:51feeling adrenaline i'm running on pure adrenaline i'm excited i can't sleep i don't think i've slept
00:56in a week really i've gotten a few hours here and there um very excited very proud very humbled and
01:04just getting such great feedback from the fans which is always really good um they seem very excited
01:09makes me want to go on tour tomorrow you know um you got a week it's coming up in a week we'll be
01:15kicking it off yes we're starting in los angeles at the l ray theater technically and then um and then
01:22we really grind and get into it in nashville in april nice very cool so uh let's start with i know
01:28you've probably been asked this question a lot but how did you come up with the album title the way
01:32obviously there's a title track on the album as well yeah that was a cool i couldn't think of a title i
01:37was reading uh the story of the road to damascus and um it had the words the way in the text and i
01:43you know i was like that's my album title 100 if you have never read that story it's a great story
01:50um and i highlighted it i sent it to scott stevens and the four horsemen and half the album was written
01:57with scott stevens or over zoom and half in nashville so when i sat down with my friends uh
02:03blair daly is like i was so inspired by your title i wrote this ballad and when he played it for me i mean
02:09we i think we all cried grown men and me included um and i said i'd love to sing that that's so
02:15beautiful it's a perfect album closer and uh it's the title track to the album very cool so the single
02:22so far of course we got mud we got tombstone town which we've been playing heavily here on mmr
02:27we also got the other couple tracks uh the devil i know and i come alive which are absolute bangers i
02:33actually had i got a chance to listen to the new album yesterday in full it's amazing from i mean
02:40this is an album that you said uh should be listened cover to cover right because obviously with the way
02:44kind of closing out the album kind of brings it all together uh it was very hard to pick singles which i
02:50think is a great problem to have um and i'm i'm really proud of it and i'm just really grateful i had
02:56such an awesome team and producer to kind of tie it all together and bring it home so yeah it's a it's an
03:02album you know i know everyone's streaming and playing singles but it's kind of a story and it's
03:07an album yeah yeah very cool uh so you um call this album a love letter to the fans uh what else can
03:14you tell us about it who produced it obviously there's 10 tracks on the album uh where did you
03:18did you record it and stuff like that uh scott stevens produced it co-wrote um and the four horsemen
03:25i wrote with uh marty frederickson kylie sackley danny myrick gavin lucas who's actually a country
03:30writer in nashville he's incredible um and scott stevens produced it and um it was recorded
03:36in nashville and in but i do the bulk of my vocals at scott's studio in la gotcha cool and it's coming
03:44out or it's out now on this kind of tangerine black swirled vinyl which is super badass i assume you had
03:52something to do with that as well oh yeah everything visual about it i have something to do with
03:56always gotcha gotcha i mean there's a couple different color variants out there i'm a big
04:00vinyl guy so as you can see with the with the gifts from the holy ghost behind me but i love
04:04uh the different color variants and stuff like that and with uh the album it's kind of it's you
04:09on the cover um and it's kind of like a black background but it's cool when you kind of pull
04:13the vinyl out of the sleeve and it's just kind of like like tangerine orange and black kind of swirl
04:19on there pretty badass we went for warm earthy colors on this one yeah yeah very cool and you can get it
04:24uh obviously digitally you get it on cd and you can get it on cassette as well is that really
04:29necessary these days i know a lot of people are putting stuff out on cassettes do people really
04:33listen to cassettes yeah i don't know if they listen to it but they certainly buy it maybe it's
04:37just a novelty i really don't know gotcha i love the uh the black sheep music co hat that you have
04:44up on the website got some cool stuff that's one of my my favorite things from up there uh the most
04:48recent single from the album is called tombstone town of course uh featuring slash really cool video
04:54kind of goes behind it we're playing very heavily here on mmr and i know you and slash you know the
04:59band has performed with slash before uh including out at the troubadour in la how did this all come
05:05together to bring him on for this particular song and in the writing process like where were you before
05:10you're like let's bring slash in to do some guitar stuff for us we were done with a lot of the songs
05:14and i sent him you know several and asked him if he would want to do a solo and he said yes and i said
05:20please just pick whatever song you want you know i had done key to the highway on his blues record so
05:24we've gone back and forth and it and it kind of just organically evolved that way gotcha yeah you
05:30mentioned um the the blues album orgy of the damned that slash put out last year of course a who's who
05:36of a vocalist on there uh you you dig the blues you got some deep-rooted blues inside you dorothy was
05:42it fun to be a part of that album with slash it was an honor and and yeah it's it was a challenge for
05:48me i've never actually done a blues classic um you know with slash watching you from the mixing board
05:53and mike clink and and a camera here and i just had to pull it out of my guts and that's kind of what
05:59happened i remember the first time or one of the first times that i saw you perform live here in
06:04philadelphia uh you did the screaming jay hawkins song i put a spell on you oh that's right just talk
06:10about you know what i mean when you see that kind of stuff live so you can you know you kind of had
06:14that kind of old school bluesy kind of deep-rooted in you i totally forgot about that so you brought
06:19it up i've never done one on record but we did have it live yeah it's a good good set filler yeah yeah
06:25yeah it was killer uh going back to slash for a minute we know you're going to be joining him
06:28uh for the first show he's going to be joining you guys for the first show of the year we kind of
06:31touched on it at the l ray theater out in los angeles it's going to be a special night for you guys
06:35yes he's going to come do some songs with us um and i'm excited to play these new album songs
06:42in our set for the fans have you uh seen his son's band play yet return to dust they are actually
06:49joining us on some of our tour dates so that's going to be nice very cool obviously they're
06:53going to be part of the mmrbq with us coming up on saturday may 10th so they're gonna be on the same
06:57bill uh i'm super stoked about that of course the the show is saturday may 10th over at freedom
07:02mortgage pavilion we're excited to have you back again for an mmrbq i believe this is your
07:07second one that you've done for us over the years so super stoked to have you back uh hopefully we're
07:13going to be getting a number of new tunes at the mmrbq yeah oh yeah definitely several off the record
07:18absolutely we've got to balance the set list some old some new i know sometimes with bands like it's
07:23like okay the album's out or the album's about to come out we have the one or two singles we're
07:27just kind of going to stick with that but i think there's so many more uh great songs on the way
07:33that i think that they need to be played live and i need the public needs to see them perform live
07:37i agree i agree and we'll trickle them in as the year goes on and by next year hopefully there will
07:43be several more in our set excellent excellent very cool uh so for those that don't know
07:49uh first of all uh the mmrbq allison chains three days grace mammoth wvh dorothy i mean the list
07:56goes on we are stacked and packed tickets are on sale now they start at 25 bucks plus some fees
08:00we love to have everybody come out uh but for those that don't know uh you were actually born
08:05in budapest hungary correct correct yeah uh and you left when you were three did you go straight to
08:11la from there san diego three or four yeah okay gotcha um so the naturalized u.s citizen have been
08:20right on uh do you recall some of your earliest musical influences i mean obviously maybe a little
08:29too young when you were over in hungary but like once you came to the stage here uh whether it be
08:33voices or bands or whatever that kind of resonated with you at a super young age yeah my parents had
08:37a pretty big vinyl collection i mean bob marley um janice joplin pink floyd um elvis credence
08:46clearwater revival um and i got into all the big female vocalists aretha franklin and whitney
08:52whitney houston and um a lot of country music dolly parton and then i got into my rock phase you know
08:58and was was doing all the classic rock and then buying all the audio slave creed nirvana green day
09:06uh who else i mean literally every genre and sub-genre of rock i could find in my angsty teen
09:15years yeah it's a great pile of tunes there uh any hungarian artists or anything that resonates with
09:21you or that you're that's a favorite of yours not any that i can think of um but i did study some
09:26classical and opera and uh vocalists especially like edith piaf and maria collis and um so they
09:33they helped lay a good foundation of classical training for me which was helped very helpful
09:38very helpful you remember your first live concert how old were you blink 182 i was 16 new family
09:45was opening for them and it was the first time i'd ever smelled the smell of marijuana and i was like
09:50good smells like it's good i'm assuming this was out in california yeah and my friends are like
09:56you are so sheltered well you know it does smell good smells better than cigarettes anyway i really
10:03liked i really liked uh i think it was maybe it was alien ant farm too newfoundland farm and blink 182
10:09i think it was line up something like that so 16 so this was like early 2000 somewhere around there
10:16maybe 15 okay 15 it was it was maybe the end of middle school uh or early high school it's been
10:24a long time gotcha gotcha best show you've ever seen creed creed hands down yeah uh most recent tour
10:33yes gotcha yeah we saw we had them through atlantic city here they're amazing live i mean kicking off
10:39the show with bullets and you know termani doing his thing man crazy bullets is my jogging song i love
10:45bullets and never die are my favorite creed songs right now yeah i mean i have a new favorite song
10:50every week but yeah any bucket list um uh collaborate collaborators musically for you
10:56yeah laney wilson uh would be fantastic um but i'm really open to anything uh if it's if it if the
11:04stars align and it's right and i'm i'm really open to it i think things that surprise people and mix
11:09things up are the best so i i know you've done you've lent your voice recently you know stained and scott
11:14stab solo album and and stuff like that so you got a beautiful voice i mean you might as well use it
11:18right thank you i appreciate that yeah so uh 2026 next year actually marks the 10th anniversary of
11:25the release of dorothy's debut album rock is dead does it feel like it's been a decade so far
11:30is it crazy to think oh my goodness okay so i've been doing this longer than a decade because we had
11:35to you know write i was writing for a few years before that so then really i've been you know in the
11:42music industry for probably at least 12 years um wow that's mind-blowing yeah what what would you like
11:49to see done to to celebrate the milestone obviously i maybe haven't started thinking about it yet it's
11:54a little ways off but you know i'm sure there's there's some stuff whether it be uh bonus tracks
12:00or some old photos or whatever it is to kind of put together no idea oh my gosh i don't know i don't
12:05know i'm sure my record label and my fantastic team here will come up with something very unique and fun
12:12uh i'm i will never forget uh this was right around the time uh your debut album came out uh
12:17you came through the philadelphia area you guys played on the precedent steve show you went up to
12:22like connecticut or massachusetts or something like that and turned and burned and came back down to
12:27philadelphia and it was me the og band uh you of course uh sarah who's one of our great uh weekend
12:34warriors and jocks here on mmr do you remember bar hopping with us on south street here in philly and
12:40uh going to the various bars and stuff like that like early on yes i do i think i still have the
12:46pictures in my phone because i remember in the cloud so i've gone through many of these phones but
12:51i i'm i think i know exactly what night that was we went to i think two or three different bars we
12:57ended up at this place called bob and barbara's which is a paps blue ribbon bar and it was us in
13:02there and there was like this one black guy that was playing some doo-wop on the on the jukebox or
13:07whatever and i just remember you singing over over these oldies and these you know these doo-wop
13:13songs i was just like is this real life right now wow there you go i yeah i had a whole oldies
13:19period you know yeah and then i think something about a strip club or something like that after the
13:23fact i don't remember that me neither well uh dorothy miss martin we uh you have a hell of a year
13:29ahead of you here of course starts today with the release of the way everybody's super excited
13:35about it obviously go out wrap your ears around it if you're watching this now get it on vinyl
13:40which is super cool i'm gonna have to get my hands on one of those splattered vinyls i will send you
13:43one thank you i saw you uh yesterday i guess you were at the rock nation headquarters there and uh
13:50you're signing a bunch of them so that's where you're at now um so are the the autographed copies
13:54of the album will these be available for purchase at the shows coming up oh yeah definitely vip meet
13:59and greets i'll sign whatever and i'll send you one as well i'll make awesome yeah really
14:03appreciate it and of course we will see you at the mmr bq saturday may 10th it's a big party we
14:08call it the official kickoff of the summer concert season here in philadelphia and i i can't even
14:13begin to explain to you uh the buzz from the fans here and our great listeners here in philadelphia
14:18that are super stoked to see you and the band come back through and be part of the mmr bq this year
14:24of course the tickets are on sale now uh door is always open for you dorothy you know we love you here
14:29at mmr uh next time you're through the philadelphia area if it happens to be before the mmr bq
14:33come by and see us we'd love to chat i can't wait to see you there awesome ladies and gentlemen
14:38miss dorothy martin congrats on the new album good luck with it thank you thank you so much