While in college, she picked up the guitar thinking it would be a good way to grow her presentation as a musician. Lawrence University. Friend and guitarist Scott Tournet and drummer Matt Burr, both of Local 47, encouraged Potter to be the front woman of the group and they began playing the bar scene near the college. That summer, Tournet and Burr followed Potter back to Vermont. Soon, a local newspaper wrote a big piece on the group and Vermonters began to line up outside the door. That first summer brought on a slew of road shows and six months of straight touring.
It was bizarre—we were sort of in a fishbowl floating around. It was our test. Despite the hectic touring schedule, Potter and the Nocturnals knew they wanted to stick with it. Their lively shows began attracting more fans and they garnered favorable reviews from Rolling Stone, Harp, Paste, and newspapers like The Boston Globe and USA Today, hailing Potter and the Nocturnals as a band that was destined for bigger and better things.
So now, when I set out to write songs, I hide the message and let it be the last thing they hear. The storytelling draws them in and then it takes a twist, like maybe the song about a love affair is really about the president.
Potter says most of the time she simply sits down with her guitar and writes, expanding upon an idea or lyric. The band recorded with producer T Bone Burnett of Local A bluesy, roots rock specialist with a powerful voice, Grace Potter is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist primarily Hammond B-3 and guitar who burst onto the scene in the early s both as a solo artist and with her band the Nocturnals.
The group went widescreen in with their eponymous third studio album, which paired country and heartland rock with muscular Memphis-style grooves. She returned to her solo career in with the Midnight LP, which was followed by Daylight in Born in Waitsfield, Vermont, Grace Potter grew up in a family that encouraged her artistic pursuits in areas from music to theater, the latter of which she was studying at St. Lawrence University when drummer Matt Burr heard her singing at an open-mike night in and asked if she would form a band with him.
She declined, but when her high school friend and bass player Courtright Beard enrolled in their college, she reconsidered the invitation, and the three of them began to write and perform jazz-influenced songs, with Potter also taking up duties on the Hammond B When Burr graduated in , they decided to move back to Vermont to some land that Potter 's parents owned and dedicate themselves more fully to their craft, replacing Beard who chose to stay at school with Bryan Dondero in the process.
In they self-released their debut, Original Soul , receiving positive response and comparisons to artists like Norah Jones and early Bonnie Raitt. This in turn garnered major-label offers, but the band preferred to build its fan base with constant touring and festival appearances. Their third full-length, This Is Somewhere , hit shelves nationwide in August Over the next year-and-a-half, they toured incessantly, releasing a four-song Christmas EP, a live album in the U.
My sole criticism is also a compliment: Midnight sounds pretty similar to Grace Potter and the Nocturnals albums. I can honestly say that the more I listen to this album, the more I like it. So what kind of music does Grace Potter play? Pop rock? Folk rock? Blues Rock? Alt Rock?
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