| General | 
You may only vote once per day.
Rock band Saving Jane is fronted by Marti Dodson, a rocker chick with a throwback vibe to the likes of Patty Smyth or the Wilson sisters. She's sexy, but she also writes great songs and sings them with conviction.
The seed for the band was planted when Marti Dodson surprisingly sat in with Pat Buzzard at a campfire party one night while attending college at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. The chemistry was immediate: “We just felt connected right away,” says Dodson, born in the tiny Ohio town of Ironton. “I don’t know how to describe it. It’s almost like meeting somebody that you’re going to date, but it was never like that with us. It was like, ‘Wow, I get this person and they get me.’” Gelling over their mutual admiration for the likes of James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac and Janis Joplin, the duo began working the OSU bar circuit, and filling out the band with members who would eventually come and go. Saving Jane is now rounded out with Marti Dodson, Pat Buzzard, Dak Goodman, Brandon Hagan and Eric Flores.
In 2002, the band self-released it's 11-song debut, Something to Hold Onto.
Three years later came Girl Next Door (Toucan Cove), with which the band built a grassroots following, scoring regional radio exposure, which led to regional tours. In April 2006, Dodson and company signed a deal with Universal for the re-release of Girl Next Door, which has gone on to sell 100,000 copies, propelled by the smash title track. It became a hit on both radio and iTunes, where it was downloaded some 600,000 times. The gold-certified single became the theme for MTV’s Tiara Girls, and was included on the hit compilation Now 22. It has helped the band register more than 2.5 million profile views on MySpace, where the song has been played more than 7 million times. It also brought Saving Jane to the country’s attention. Since 2005, Saving Jane has toured nationwide, opening for the likes of Daughtry, Kelly Clarkson, Pink, All American Rejects and The Fray. They’ve been featured in Billboard and Teen People and performed on Live with Regis and Kelly. Dodson, meanwhile, has become a spokesperson and model for the Wet Seal clothing brand.
For anyone who has grown annoyed by the music industry’s habit of selling songs with sex rather than substance, Saving Jane’s new album is for you. It’s more like a movement. With One Girl Revolution, Saving Jane’s lead singer, Marti Dodson, is trying to bring us back to a time when songs were based around heartfelt stories that didn’t have be delivered with a wink and a wiggle. As her bandmates exorcise their inner rock god on the hard-charging, hooky new single, turning the band’s third disc into perhaps their most electrified outing, Dodson urges her fans to be themselves and to reject how females are treated in the music industry and in the media. With their latest release, both she and the band are growing into themselves. “I think most artists start out wanting to be on a major label,” Dodson says. “That’s the ultimate goal. It was for us. And then we just found out that it wasn’t everything it was cracked up to be, that it wasn’t right for us. We didn’t get to make the music we wanted to make, and there was a lot of pressure about image. So on One Girl Revolution, we just wanted to go back to a place where it was all about music, and making the music we wanted to make. That’s what this album is all about.”
|
