REVIEWS
DOTTIE
Back Home (DUSTCD24)
This is the way I think country music shall be done - with love for the roots and apersonality that refines them. I want the comp to have nerve and life, the vocals shall be present with a feeling for the story and the songs shall have a strong melody and trustworthy lyrics. All this is given me when I listen to the new CD of Carina "Dottie" Lindqvist. There is no doubt this is an artist who have listen to the old heroes and have respect for them but who also have quality and integrity to let her own feeling steer. Back Home is a CD with genuine country with a comp that is classic - guitar, bass, mandolin, steel, fiddle, drums, piano - but it is not a retro-album, neither a pop-country but real country for today, the kind you wish Nashville hade the guts to produce.
Dottie has a hand in writing all of the songs with one exception. Some is written by her alone and some with good friends or with her sister Eva Eastwood. Maybe help this diverse songwriting to make the CD fell so fresh and miscellanous. All songs have strong identities and listen to the CD is an exciting journey all through.
But at the end it still is Dottie's voice that is the trump. She sings with a total prescense and the right twang.
As a kid Dottie listen a lot to country music as her parents was very interested. Wayon och Johnny Cash was the favorites. But the young Carina also liked Elvis.
She started to perform early, often with local bands but she also backed the legendary american rocker Jack Scott when he played her hometown. It was there Lasse Stranheim of Tail Records discovered her. It led to a lot of work as back up singer on several recording but she also did a singel on her own as well as tracks for a couple of compilations. 2004 she made her first own full-lenght album backed by the rockabilly band Wolfpack. During the years at Tail Records she focused on her rockabilly and rock'n'roll side, as that is the profile of the label, but finally she found that she wanted to play country as that is the music that is closest to her heart. Well, we are happy she's back home.
Dottie and her band Country Charm plays live a lot and during the summer they have played festivals in both Sweden and Norway. During the fall they will perform at country festivals in Gothenburg, Vasteras and Helsingborg, all in Sweden as well as doing several gigs on their own.