{"id":3009,"date":"2011-08-03T13:16:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T20:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2011-08-03T13:17:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T20:17:27","slug":"grace-potter-the-nocturnals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/grace-potter-the-nocturnals\/","title":{"rendered":"GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Casting aside comparisons and coming <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Grace Potter & the Nocturnals had always worn their 1960s and \u201970s influences on their sleeves, as their charismatic frontwoman drew comparisons to greats ranging from Bonnie Raitt to Janis Joplin. But with the release of their self-titled third album, Potter and company have truly come into their own. \u201cThis time around there\u2019s more of an identity,\u201d says Potter. \u201cWe\u2019ve really turned the tables.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band earned such comparisons in the first place with its blazing live shows, which appealed particularly to the jam-band crowd. But Potter shakes off categorization. \u201cPeople come up to us all the time and they ask, \u2018What kind of music do you play?\u2019\u201d she says. \u201cI just make things up. I tell them we\u2019re Crash Test Dummies or we play Christian chamber pop. I\u2019m so tired of this indie-versus-jam thing. It\u2019s completely unimportant and completely beside the point. Music is music.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Grace Potter & the Nocturnals<\/em>, new dimensions of maturity in songwriting and musicianship announce that Potter and her band, formed in Vermont, have arrived for real after eight years together. \u201cI think there was a lot of fear over our musicianship in the studio before, so there was a lot of covering things up,\u201d Potter admits. \u201cBut this time around it\u2019s much more stripped-down and raw and to the point.\u201d On tracks like \u201cThings I Never Needed,\u201d \u201cParis\u201d and \u201cMedicine,\u201d the group\u2019s experience as road warriors shows in ways only hinted at on previous studio efforts. \u201cWe grew slowly on purpose,\u201d she says, \u201cbecause we\u2019re from a place where immediate success wasn\u2019t considered success at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now Potter hopes the comparisons will finally cease. \u201cWhen I first met Bonnie Raitt, I was about 17,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI went up to her with my CD and said, \u2018Bonnie, I hope you listen to this. A lot of people say I sound like you.\u2019 She said, \u2018Thanks, but I probably will never listen to it.\u2019 And it was perfect. She wasn\u2019t trying to break my heart, she was just trying to teach me that this is a big world and there\u2019s a lot of people out there trying to make it, and you\u2019re never going to get anywhere telling somebody that you sound like somebody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Potter, it\u2019s all about looking ahead now. \u201cThere\u2019s a new rock \u2019n\u2019 roll revolution going on,\u201d she says, \u201cand I want to be on that train and take it as far as I can take it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Jeff Tamarkin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS Casting aside comparisons and coming Grace Potter & the Nocturnals had always worn their 1960s and \u201970s influences on their sleeves, as their charismatic frontwoman drew comparisons to greats ranging from Bonnie Raitt to Janis Joplin. But with the release of their self-titled third album, Potter and company have truly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[2274,80,10156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}