after midnight with grace potter specific intro

by k. cortez on January 27, 2008

hammer
nail

jeans

We’ll get more into this guy later on. This piece cracked me up . . .

It’s the most ingenious marketing plan of 2006.

While attempting to locate an elusive Tim Buckley and Judy Collins duet among dusty Elektra label master tapes, an archivist uncovered a staggeringly brilliant unreleased recording. After a chemically-inspired jolt of inspiration during Phil Lesh’s set at Bonnaroo, the label’s marketing deparment decided to release the 35-year-old album as a new independent effort by a fictional act out of Vermont named Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.

Anyone who listens to Nothing But the Water will recognize that not a note on it could have been recorded any later than 1976. Surely it’s an old Rory Block or Bonnie Bramlett session. It’s no secret that authentic folk-blues records with memorable songs like this just aren’t made any more. This so-called “Grace Potter”even name-checks J.J. Cale in the first song. C’mon! The album bears no resemblance to tedious contemporary “blooze,” nor does it have anything in common with the safe sounds of Norah Jones’ hits.

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SnowbirdinVT 01.28.08 at 5:50 am

Crack you up - I was wailing - where do you find these gems? Love what you do - keep it comin’!

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Todd 01.28.08 at 11:22 am

Exactly what I said the first time I heard those lines that sucked me in like Jonah and the whale!

Give me back my hammer give me back my nails Give me back my jeans and my JJ Cale!

Coulda stuck a fork in me that instant … Then I saw them live. Thanks again yo!

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