Stream: Dorothy, ‘Rest in Peace’

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Dorothy (Photo by Courney Dellafiora)

Dorothy Martin — Dorothy when she’s fronting her blues-rock band — has inhabited a couple of personas since Roc Nation began developing her as an artist in 2014. She stirred the pot as a bad-girl rocker for her 2016 debut, “ROCKISDEAD.” She segued to Stevie Nicks-styled enchantress for the 2018 follow-up, “28 Days in the Valley.” Her strong songs and vocal powers made both compelling theater.

For Act 3, she got religion. On Dorothy’s third album, “Gifts From the Holy Ghost,” out this spring, the singer-songwriter returns to vein-busting rock, with a purpose. She credits some divine intervention: Three years ago, while on tour, a member of her crew overdosed. The story goes that he might have even temporarily flatlined as Martin instinctively prayed for his survival. He made it, and frontwoman was remade.

The experience, she said, freed something inside her. “I think this album is going to speak to a lot of people,” Martin says. “It’s meant to be healing, unifying, eye-opening, ear-opening, heart-opening and celebratory. I wanted to make the realest album I could make, and I went in with the question does this make me feel alive? Does it make me feel free? If a song didn’t give me chills or make my heart soar, then it didn’t make the cut.”

She made the record with a new backing cast, including Keith Wallen (Breaking Benjamin), Jason Hook (Five Finger Death Punch), Scott Stevens, Phil X (Bon Jovi), Trevor Lukather (Levara) and producer Chris Lord Alge, among others.

The muscular new single “Rest in Peace,” Martin says, “is about breaking free from oppression, burying demons and reclaiming sovereignty and power.” Director Nick Peterson and editor Linda Strawberry worked on the lyric video.

||| Stream: “Rest in Peace”

||| Live: Dorothy performs May 19 at the Parish at the House of Blues Anaheim. Tickets on sale Feb. 4.

||| Previously: “What’s Coming to Me,” live at the Regent, live at the Fonda Theatre, “Flawless,” “ROCKISDEAD,” “Dark Nights,” “Raise Hell,” “Wicked Ones,” “Wild Fire,” “After Midnight”