I didn't know anything about Grace Potter until recently, although she and her band appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2007. She was on Leno again on Thursday night, sending a few high notes soaring into the Mariah Carey zone on the song Paris. Yesterday morning she was on Good Morning America, delivering a high-energy performance of Tiny Light that also showed off the talents of her kick-ass band. Good Morning America Appearance To me, she sounds like a higher-powered version of Norah Jones, with a touch of Liz Phair attitude and a 70s blues (Bonnie Raitt) vibe. She shows her softer, more expressive side on slow tracks like Lose Some Time. Her MySpace playlist also includes an interesting cover of Grace Slick's classic White Rabbit. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals on MySpace Music I'm going to see her live next week. She has booked several small clubs for this summer, which will surely sell out fast now that she has gotten all this national attention from TV. Next time she books a tour, I'm sure she will be playing much larger venues. I haven't heard a new voice like this in a long time. No wonder Rolling Stone has called the Nocturnals one of the best new bands of 2010. It just took 5 years for the world to find her. I don't think it's too soon to be talking about a possible Grammy for Best New Artist - unless they change the rules to let Lady Gaga compete. Gaga was eligible for it last year, before most of us had heard of her.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that she is Grace Slicks daughter. Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paeNnR33i5Q"]YouTube- Grace Potter and Joe Satriani cover Cortez the Killer Peace Out, Rev J
5 years is definitely not a long time for a band to get big... and considering it is a jam band that's led by is a girl keyboardist i'd say its an extremely short amount of time
I can't find anything online about her having a famous parent, but that video is a good one. She does all kinds of collaborative projects. Not long ago, she fronted the legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band at a music festival. She sure does have a lot of video footage out there to be a singer without any big hits! Obviously, her record company believes she has a bright future. The problem is the arbitrary formula that the Grammies use for deciding who is eligible for the Best New Artist award. Sometimes an artist like Lady Gaga gets locked out too soon. Other times, people like Susan Tedeschi and Bonnie Raitt get nominated after they have been performing and recording for many years. Their rule makes no sense to me. Sometimes you can win or lose based on whether your popularity explodes early or late in the year. That has nothing to do with talent, and is totally outside of the artist's control. Anyway, I hope that Grace Potter wins it. It's time for blues-rock to make a little comeback. :cheers2: Don't get me wrong - I love electronic dance music and I play keyboard - but rock is supposed to be mostly about guitars that are played blues-style, and blues vocals. That's how it all started.
not for the sake of offering a dissenting opinion, i shall share my opinion of grace potter and the nocturnals... i bought an album of theirs in 2006. i must admit, i found it to most pleasing to the ear... at least for a studio effort. i figured i would know where i stood completely when i got around to seeing her show. i saw her live last year... for about a song and a half of her set. i was sorely disappointed by the fact that the music coming from these caricature-ish 70's-styled hipsters was some of (if not THE) most unimaginative jive i had ever seen live. add to that, that they (as previously mentioned) were overly kitschy, and had that corporate slickness about them that i have come to loathe. formulate your own opinion, but i lost any desire to listen to these guys after seeing them live. granted, it was a festival set... so that might have had a little to do with it... but, i figure her/their music isn't for me.
I saw them in a small club last week. Grace has plenty of talent, but I'm not sure that she and her band have yet found the distinctive, memorable sound that is going to kick them up to the next level, beyond living on a bus and doing 200 shows a year, mostly in venues that hold 500 or less. At www.gracepotter.com you can hear everything she has ever recorded for free. Her style has evolved radically, from Norah Jones-style material to blues to rock with a retro-70s feel.
it is my opinion, that they haven't "found a sound to take them to the next level", because they are at the next level... which is the doldrums of corporate whoredom. c'mon, miley cyrus is her label-mate. the label, by the way, is owned by disney. again, think what you want, but for me, an 'artist' loses all credibility when they sell their soul to the mouse-y overlord.
Everybody is trying to make a buck, unless you were born rich. So what? You know what's the only thing missing from Main Street USA (in the Magic Kingdom) that you will find on every real Main Street in America? A church. You won't find any reference to religion anywhere on a Disney property. Disney also gets protested on a regular basis by conservative groups because of their employee benefits for same-sex partners, and for making movies and TV shows promoting social values not pleasing to right-wingers. So I don't have a big problem with Disney. They're not my enemy. But if Grace ever wears mouse ears on stage, I'll walk out. You have to draw the line somewhere.
yeah, my gripe with disney isn't the fact that they don't have a church in their theme park or any other fundagelical cause... i don't like them because they are the biggest purveyors of absolute shit in history. they are like vultures, and kiddies like a dying squirrel. seriously... without disney, you have no: britney spears, christina aguilera, nsync, hannah montana(in her miley variant, too), jonas brothers, cheetah girls, selena gomez, demi lovato, corbin bleu, jesse mccartney, aly & aj, vanessa hudgens, hillary duff, rascall flatts... to name a few. what a beautiful landscape that would be... perhaps more people would be into mind-expanding things.
First time I saw em was at the xmas jam in asheville knocked my bare feet off.. so at langerado I saw em full on! baaad asss cant get enough oh and john medeski is an octopuss/devil/master
I don't think this is the right thread for debating whether or not media companies have an obligation to protect people from their own tastes.
