Riley Cotton

Riley Cotton is a Connecticut-based singer/songwriter.  Throughout her coming of age and artistic expression, she struggled with a pulling duality of her queer feminine identity and fondness of her southern roots. While growing up in Texas, much of her musical taste was shaped by the voices of the women of country music; Shania Twain, Sarah Evans, Dolly Parton, the Dixie Chicks. These women so boldly embraced the power of their belt and divine femininity in the face of an industry that did not embrace them, and Riley was inspired. She continued to sing their songs through her childhood and teenage years, always finding comfort in the sounds of pedal steel, acoustic guitar, and rich vocal harmonies. While writing her own music, Riley aspires to share her experiences taking a stance on the issues that compel her, all the while utilizing the masterful story telling mechanisms so prevalent in the music she grew up on. 

Music

A House With Blue Siding

Riley Cotton

In cart Not available Out of stock

They often say you take your whole life to write your first album; drawing from all of your past experiences, gaining the confidence to put those ideas to paper, studying up on all of your heroes and their journeys to find your own path. A House with Blue Siding is my love and frustrations, my dearest triumph; a compilation of countless notebook

They often say you take your whole life to write your first album; drawing from all of your past experiences, gaining the confidence to put those ideas to paper, studying up on all of your heroes and their journeys to find your own path. A House with Blue Siding is my love and frustrations, my dearest triumph; a compilation of countless notebook scribbles, iphone notes riddled with typos and voice memos of melodies written in my car rides to work.

Read more…
0:00/???
  1. 1
    In cart Not available Out of stock
    0:00/3:51
  2. 2
    In cart Not available Out of stock
    0:00/3:09
  3. 3
    In cart Not available Out of stock
    0:00/3:41
  4. 4
    In cart Not available Out of stock
    0:00/3:35
  5. 5
    Honey 3:27
    In cart Not available Out of stock
    0:00/3:27
  6. 6
    In cart Not available Out of stock
    0:00/2:25
  7. 7
    In cart Not available Out of stock
    0:00/2:36
  8. 8
    Marie 5:09
    In cart Not available Out of stock
    0:00/5:09

Store

T-Shirt
  • T-Shirt

Size

In cart Not available Out of stock
$25.00

I designed and printed these t-shirts myself! Hand-carved on a linoleum block and printed with 2 colors! The design is inspired by the album art created by Liam Mahoney and features the house with blue siding from which the title track was inspired.

Disclaimer Each print is inherently unique due to the hand-made process. Machine wash on COLD

Read more…

Videos