Country music's Lindi Ortega is rocking "Little Red Boots" and telling "Little Lies"...Update Trend News

Country music's Lindi Ortega is rocking "Little Red Boots" and telling "Little Lies"...

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Lindi how would you define your musical style?
You know I'm very heavily influenced by old school country music but there are other styles that creep up in there like folk and roots music-it sort of gets labeled as alternative country so if I had to put it into a genre alternative country music comes closest.

Is alternative country a new category?
Well it has been around. When you're checking out the Myspaces and you've got the categories to choose from it is definitely a category you can choose. I guess it's what they call the country that is not quite the new pop country that's on the radio right now.

Tell me a little about how you got started...you're out of Canada?
Yes, I live in Toronto. I was born in Toronto but raised is a small town just outside the city called Pickering. And it's like a bedroom community where people work in the city but live in the suburbs. It wasn't much of a music scene in Pickering so I'd have to take the train into the city to experience any live music.

But I did get started in music through my father who was a bass player in a Latino Band. When I was growing up he always had a lot of instruments and a whole set-up with a PA system with piano, guitar and bass and I was always very interested in the instruments he had. My curiosity started to really grow when I hit my teenage year. Then I got my dad to teach me a couple of chords on the guitar and from there I took a keen interest in song writing.

So did your dad's Latin band influence your music today?
I think a little bit of the Latin flavor in terms of my guitar strumming was an influence. And growing up I listened to the Gypsy Kings and I always liked to strum rhythmically and this has had an influence on my writing.

When I first started writing songs as a teen I figured I only needed to know two or three chords to write a song and this still holds true today you only need two or three chords. So I started from there with a couple two or three chord songs and then expanded. And oddly enough one of my very first songs was about when I got dumped the day I was supposed to go to prom and called it "Faded Dress" about the dress I never got to wear to prom-it was my first heartbreak song. It was unfortunate because I never ever got to go to either my Junior or Senior Prom.

So you went from high school to performing...what's your story?
I went to University and studied Philosophy and got a degree in Philosophy. At the time my mom was very much about the fact that I should have a degree and thought it was very important that I get one to have something to fall back on. And I really wanted to sign at the time and was slightly resentful going to University but now that I look back on it I'm very grateful for the experience.

I was focusing on my music while at the University. I do recall playing gigs the night before exams, I'd write a songs instead of studying...things like that kept me focused on music and somehow I managed to graduate. Then I started more seriously on music immediately after University. I recorded two independent CD's myself-printed them up myself did the artwork myself recorded them all and sold them off the side of the stage. I played coffee houses and then upgraded to bars and venues-trudging my way through the Toronto music scene. I just found ways to keep on going because of my love of performing and singing and I never stopped doing it.

People then came into my life that were very helpful. Particularly the producer that produced my CD Ron Lopata found me on Myspace. He sent me a message about a project he was working on called "Year of the Monkey" it was electronica and asked me to collaborate with him. After doing this we realized we could work well together-and my music was born. He really opened my eyes to the music industry and the art of writing songs.

Let's talk about your album Little Red Boots...how did you come up with the title and what can fans expect?
I bought these boots while on a song writing trip in Nashville about three years ago-it was a pair of red cowboy boots from the first store we walked in. The store magically had this pair of red boots right up front and I had to have them right away. They are the boots you see in my photos and I still wear them. I guess the little red boots moniker when I traveling across the Midwest with Kevin Costner-the first couple of shows I opened for him the boots got a big response-people were really into the look of the boots and kept commenting on them. Everyone thought the little red boots were so cute-that I felt they deserved a song written about them.

While I was following behind Kevin Costner is a hatchback I started penning a song about the little red boots and it became a song. I started trying it out on the people we performed for at the shows and they loved it. I felt like a comic book character in a spaghetti western based on the peoples response. So when it came time to name the album it just felt right-I was still wearing the boots and people like the song.

It is a 12 song album and runs the gamut. There's all kinds of fun numbers. I tried to make it fun and upbeat. There's some cheeky songs, some inspiring songs, some happy songs and then there's a couple of dark songs set to happy rhythms-a style I borrowed from Charlie Cash which can be heard in his "Fulton Prison Blues."

And what was the inspiration for the other lead single "Little Lie"?
That was a song about the dead end of a relationship-one that had run it's course. You know the signs were all there-but the other person didn't want to see the truth. He kind of wanted to see things in his own alternative reality. And it was sort of me indulging him in this alternate reality towards the end of the relationship by telling little lies. The crux of this song is that it's all there and it will be revealed.