Oh, it's the Cripescast again. Play the music.

So roll out the barrel and get the band brewing.

Life's got you down.

Just keep her moving.

Hey everybody, welcome to the Cripescast cast sponsored by Jolly Good. I'm your

host Charlie Barons. This is the podcast where we talk to people for and or from

the Midwest this week. My guest is actually from Canada. She's a very dear friend of mine.

Her name is Dot Toddman. She's a singer, she's a songwriter, but also she is my vocal coach.

That's right folks, these pipes don't, you know, work on their own, they need a little love.

I thought it would be fun to bring Dot on because I just released my album as maybe no unthawed which somehow

it made it to number one on the Billboard boograss charts by the way I just have to

thank all of you who bought the album for helping make that happen. It's so, so cool. I can't thank you all enough. But here's why I bring that up. My singing before starting voice lessons with Dot was awful.

I don't think there's a better way to describe it than that.

I had problems with pitch and tone and and rhythm and all that see I grew up

Listening to Bob Dylan I always love Bob Dylan but to like I would try to imitate Bob Dylan which which to me sound like, you know, very throaty kind of singing.

So I picked up a lot of bad habits trying to emulate that.

And when I came to Dodd, that's really all I had were bad habits but Dot has a very unique coaching

style which blends her degrees in psychology and music with her experience surviving a debilitating

medical accident and the result is a very very cool coaching philosophy

that I believe translates to so many other things in life.

So you know whether or not you have an interest in singing or in voice work, I think this podcast will really resonate and I mean you know a lot of times on the

Christ's cast I'll bring people on who are have a very specific niche or a very specific

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