16/07/2025
⚡️ARTIST SPOTLIGHT⚡️ Grace Potter
Arriving on the heels of her fifth solo album Mother Road—a 2023 LP that marked her most fiercely visionary work to date—Medicine came to life soon after the release of This Is Somewhere, the 2007 sophomore effort from her former band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. After stumbling upon a video of Potter delivering an a ca****la rendition of the title track from the band’s 2005 debut Nothing but the Water, Burnett didn’t hesitate when approached about working with Potter. They arranged a meeting at the Hotel Bel-Air—an occasion so consequential she recalls every moment in ultra-vivid detail. (“I remember wearing a Missoni dress I’d bought vintage, which was unraveling at the seams,” says Potter. “I arrived way too early, so I listened to Linda Ronstadt’s ‘Blue Bayou’ on repeat in the car. Then, I finally sat down with T-Bone and Bob Cavallo, head of Hollywood Records at the time. I ordered corned-beef hash and sat dead-still trying to keep my dress from falling apart as we talked about the project and everything we could create together.”) Fresh off his widely celebrated turn as producer on Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand—a 2007 album whose five Grammy wins added to a legacy that also included producing O Brother, Where Art Thou?—Burnett approached the project with a definitive plan for what would become Medicine. “T Bone’s idea was that my voice and the rhythm would carry the record,” she says. “He told me my voice was a force of nature, that it needed to be compelled forward by something with a superhuman momentum—which was not at all what I’d expected, and so much more enticing and exciting as a new access point for my musicality.”
Grace Potter is performing at Concerts at Point of the Bluff on Sunday, July 20th! Join us for a perfect Sunday afternoon show.
Head to the link below for tickets. 🔗
https://concertsatpob.com/grace-potter/
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