Topic “Grace Potter & The Nocturnals”

By Chris Richards (The Washington Post)

She’s opening for Nashville nice guys Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw on tour this summer, but Grace Potter hasn’t been minding her manners. She howls. She thrashes. She stomps across the stage with a fury that will make you wonder if the stage said something nasty about her mother.

“I don’t know if it’s coming across properly,” the 29-year...

By Timothy Bracy (Special to The Washington Post)

Idiosyncratic Vermont-based singer-songwriter Grace Potter’s unlikely trajectory began in 2002 as part of the jam-band circuit and has gone on to include collaborations with artists as divergent as Kenny Chesney and the Black Keys. The diversity in Potter’s resume speaks to her artistic gifts and weaknesses.

On her sixth release, “The...

By Linda East Brady (Standard-Examiner music writer)

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

With all of the flavor-of-the-minute music that causes a big splash and then fades out just as quickly, it seems that honest rock 'n' roll sometimes gets left by the wayside.

Not so with this, the third album by the Vermont-based band that roots its sound solidly in aggressive...