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Grace Potter And The Nocturnals Biography
This Is Somewhere (Ragged Company/ Hollywood Records)
marks the coming of age of the young, Vermont-based rock band Grace
Potter and the Nocturnals. To say that this album makes good on the
band’s immense promise would be an understatement. While these
assertions quite naturally invite skepticism, we respond: “just insert
and press 'play'.”
The album
manifests incredible growth in the writing and singing of 24-year-old
phenomenon Grace Potter, who has clearly found her true voice in both
respects, as well as the instrumental prowess of the band: Potter on
the Hammond B3, guitarist Scott Tournet, bassist Bryan Dondero and
drummer Matt Burr. On this remarkable record, they make a glorious
racket indeed.
The band’s
timeless, organic brand of American rock & roll is fully in
evidence throughout This Is Somewhere. Potter’s timely and eloquent
songs—some of them intensely personal, others politically
charged—immediately lodge themselves in the listener’s head (pretty
much defining the de rigueur term “sticky”) and bore in deeper with
each successive play.
This band
has something else going for it — Potter’s innate star quality. As
critic Jeff Davidson wrote last September in a piece posted on TMZ.com,
“…she is easily the most glamorous star to rise from the jam scene, and
her million-dollar smile makes her as desirable as any pop songstress.
The fact that she’s amazingly talented…makes her even sexier.”
Potter
and the Nocturnals grew from the roots of rock & roll in what some
might call the old-fashioned way; For the first two years, Potter and
the band teamed up with friends to run their “Ragged Company” label
from her dad’s old sign shop, handling everything from CD graphics to
booking the tours. In 2005 they joined forces with indie911 founder
Justin Goldberg after reading his music industry book suggesting new
artists should tour instead of look for record deals. The group turned
down their first label offer and chose instead to sign on with booking
agent Hank Sacks, now with Monterey Peninsula Artists, and began
playing a countless number of music festivals and opening slots until
gradually building great word of mouth. Their sound? They’re a
neoclassic rock & roll band possessing bona fide chops, a natural
sense of dynamics and a palate containing all the useful colors, and
these qualities allow them to stretch out onstage, to riveting effect.
Perhaps their greatest asset is the ability to transcend genres, never
content to settle into one predefined sound. GPN were once the
up-and-coming darlings of the modern jazz and blues scene, receiving
incessant comparisons to Norah Jones and Lucinda Williams. Yet their
magnetic live shows and dedication to the road earned the band a warm
welcoming from the jam-band community, leading to two nominations at
the 2006 Jammy’s. At the same time, This is Somewhere is a testament to
the band’s true roots – pure rock music. The influence of predecessors
The Band, The Rolling Stones, and Little Feat is clear. Still, GPN’s
raw passion and uncompromising politics more directly evoke the memory
of the great Neil Young & Crazy Horse, whose Everybody Knows This
Is Nowhere served as one of the inspirations for the album title.
Following
those two years of virtually nonstop roadwork on a national scale
sharing the stages with such legends as Taj Mahal and Mavis Staples,
including a bravura performance at last year’s Bonnaroo Music Festival
(“Touring is a big part of who we are,” says Grace), the band has upped
the ante considerably on the aptly titled This Is Somewhere. The
sessions were conducted in a Los Angeles studio with song-centric
producer Mike Daly, who has forged a booming career for himself after
coming on the radar as Whiskeytown’s resident multi-instrumentalist;
A-list engineer Joe Chicarelli, who joined the project between his
co-production of the Shins’ Wincing the Night Away and setting up a
Nashville studio for the White Stripes album project; and mix master
Michael Brauer, whose credits span from Coldplay’s Parachutes to My
Morning Jacket’s Acoustic Citousca.
And
just like that, this surprising and deeply resonant album lifts Potter
and the Nocturnals into the rarefied stratum presently occupied by
Wilco and My Morning Jacket—bands that combine a reverence for rock’s
rich heritage with a sense of adventure and a need to express something
honest and heartfelt.