The very first show by her new band, Grace Potter and the Magical Midnight Roadshow, revealed just what kind of world she might find herself in, when they opened for the Rolling Stones in Minneapolis and she joined the headliners for “Gimme Shelter” during their set. So I'm trying to find a way to fit into that world a little bit, maybe being a square peg in a round hole.” “But people are smart, and they can see it when you're fake-I love Beyoncé, but I'm not Beyoncé, and I think she's got that corner covered. “Pop music has a really buoyant atmosphere, and I think life is too short to talk about how much it sucks all the time,” said Potter.
The results are still soulful, but more polished and poppy than the post-Janis, jammy flavor of the Nocturnals. “I couldn't just pretend it was going to be the same little Gracie Potter doing the same ol’ thing, digging in her heels and making a roots-rock Americana record. That's not what this is.” “So I figured don't call an apple an orange, just let it be true to what it is,” the 32-year-old Vermont native continued.
“As I started writing, I realized that my instincts and influences were coming from my childhood and all these personal stories of my life, and the band wasn't really in that conversation. ”My whole life got turned upside down and inside out, in that I started really taking stock of where my career was and where I wanted to be,” she said in a recent interview before a recent show outside New York City. When she started work on the album, Potter assumed it would be a Nocturnals record as usual-but found herself being pulled in new directions. Whatever the methods required, “Midnight” represents a significant step for Potter while her debut album, 2004’s “Original Soul,” came out under her name alone, this is the first solo music she has released since joining forces with her band, the Nocturnals, a dozen years ago. The hard-grooving group (whose drummer, Matt Burr, is also Potter’s husband) has earned a devoted following through tireless touring, especially as a staple on the festival circuit. “If it's a vulnerable song or a song where I want to feel naked, I'm absolutely, one hundred percent naked when I'm recording.” “I was naked all the time in the studio,” said the singer with a laugh. It’s something else to actually peel off your clothes and work in the nude-but that’s exactly what Grace Potter did while she was working on her new album, “Midnight.” It’s one thing to bare yourself emotionally when you’re making a record.
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