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Grace Potter & the Nocturnals - Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (2010)

Front Cover | pop rock, soft rock | Ragged Company Records/Hollywood Records

Tracklist:

01. Paris (Ooh La La) (3:15)

02. Oasis (4:41)

03. Medicine (4:05)

04. Goodbye Kiss (3:32)

05. Tiny Light (4:42)

06. Colors (5:15)

07. Only Love (3:21)

08. Money (2:54)

09. One Short Night (3:50)

10. Low Road (4:38)

11. That Phone (3:18)

12. Hot Summer Night (3:21)

13. Things I Never Needed (4:09)

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals is a Vermont-based band that gained national attention in 2007 with its album, This Is Somewhere. Their next, self-titled studio album was released on June 8, 2010. The band blends funky blues, soul and rock from the 60s and early 70s.

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The lead vocalist is 27-year-old multi-instrumentalist Grace Potter, who attended St. Lawrence University for two years before pursuing music professionally. She plays the Hammond B3, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer Electric Piano and electric and acoustic guitars. The other members of the band are Scott Tournet, on guitars (including slide guitar) and harmonica, and drummer Matthew Burr. Bryan Dondero played bass guitar, upright bass, and mandolin with the group until his departure in early 2009. They have since been joined by bassist Catherine Popper and rhythm guitarist Benny Yurco.

The band has independently recorded and released two albums, Original Soul (2004) and Nothing But the Water (2005). Marketing efforts include word-of-mouth and online promotion through indie911.com. The band signed a deal with Hollywood Records in December 2005 and rereleased Nothing But the Water on May 23, 2006.

In 2005, the band was nominated for two categories at the Boston Music Awards; "Best Local Female Artist" and "Best New Local Act". They also performed at the awards ceremony. In 2006, the band won the Jammy Award for "Best New Groove" and was nominated for two more Boston Music Awards: Album Of The Year (major) for the re-release of Nothing But the Water, and Female Vocalist Of The Year (for front woman Grace Potter). Potter, playing Hammond Organ and singing lead vocals along with guitarist Joe Satriani, Steve Kimock, Reed Mathis, Willy Waldman, and Stephen Perkins performed a cover of Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer", at the Jammy Awards to a standing ovation at the Jammy Awards during the same appearance.

The band released its third album, This Is Somewhere, on August 7, 2007 on Hollywood Records and toured that fall supporting Gov't Mule for its October and November North American tour.

The song "Apologies" has been featured on the American television shows All My Children, Kyle XY, One Tree Hill, and Brothers & Sisters, and the song "Falling or Flying" was featured on the hit drama shows ER and Grey's Anatomy and appeared on Volume 3 of the latter's soundtrack.

The band recently supported The Black Crowes on their North American tour.

On August 2, 2007, the band made its network television debut on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. This was followed by appearances on ABC's Good Morning America on August 7, 2007 and CBS' The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on August 10, 2007.

In 2008, the group opened for the Dave Matthews Band for three dates: a two-night stand at the Saratoga Performing Arts left in Saratoga, New York June 20–21, and June 24 at the Tweeter left in Mansfield, Massachusetts. The band played a full set at the Mile High Music Festival on July 20.

In November 2008, Bose began using "Ain't No Time" in their North American iPod SoundDock sales displays.

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals released the news on May 11, 2009 that T-Bone Burnett would be producing their next album, Medicine, tentatively scheduled for fall of 2009, however by November 13, 2009, the band posted a new release date for the album, pushing it back to Spring 2010. The T-Bone album was subsequently shelved in favor of a true band album to be titled Grace Potter and the Nocturnals which is scheduled to be released June 8, 2010. The 13 track album was produced by Mark Batson, with "Tiny Light" as the first single. The video for "Tiny Light" was shot in Los Angeles during February 2010 with director Paul Minor.

During the 2009 Bonnaroo Music Festival, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, along with playing their own set, joined Gov't Mule and moe. on stage for their shows. Potter and Tournet joined Gov't Mule onstage, while with moe. they one-by-one replaced the band during moe.'s five hour set and played four of their own songs to be replaced back by moe.

In 2010, the band appeared on the soundtrack for Tim Burton's feature film Alice in Wonderland with a live cover version of Jefferson Airplane's song "White Rabbit".

The band appeared at The Hangout Music Festival on May 15, 2010 in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Grace appeared as a guest on stage with The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, singing vocals for "St. James Infirmary Blues" and joined Gov't Mule on a cover of "Gold Dust Woman."

In late May 2010, Vermont specialty chocolate maker Lake Champlain Chocolates created a new chocolate bar in conjunction with Grace Potter called Grace Under Fire. The dark chocolate contains pistachios and red pepper flakes.

The band released their fourth studio recording, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, on June 8, 2010. The album peaked at 6 on iTunes Top 100 album and 2 on iTunes Rock Albums Chart. The opening track, "Paris (Ooh La La)", and iTunes bonus track "Fooling Myself" was in the Top 40 and Top 100, respectively, on iTunes Rock Songs Chart.

On the eve of their eponymous album release date, the band announced on Facebook and Twitter that they were going to perform a free concert on Burlington, Vermont's Church Street Marketplace the following day. The hour-long concert attracted thousands of viewers and became a huge local media story. The band sold merchandise and hosted a meet and greet with fans for three hours following the concert.

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