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photo: Jim Solomon Love the caption “American Badass”

Whether Potter and company where steamrolling through some greasy funky stuff or rocking out, they were killing it and kept the momentum all through the set and got some booties shaking on “If I Was From Paris.”

Here’s the linkage to archive.org
Set Intro
Sugar
Mastermind
Ain’t No Time
Stop The Bus
Ah Mary
Apologies
Over Again
Nothing But The Water [Part 1] >>>
Nothing But The Water [Part 2]
Sweet Hands
If I Was From Paris
Watching You

Once again, an excellent show - thanks everyone for showing up - until next time . . .

Chat away folks, 6PM is a tough time so I think many people will be coming and going. In case of trouble, there are “Warn” and “Mute” features for troublemakers (not that we plan on having any). The live broadcast will be shown on iClips, check this page for updates. iClips is a risky technical proposition so you get what you pay for - meaning - it’s free and if it works - cool! You must be a member of iClips to watch the live broadcasts so sign up well before the show starts.

From the iClips site

iClips Network and All Good Music Festival are proud to announce the live broadcast of the 12th Annual All Good Music Festival, from July 11-13 from Marvin’s Mountaintop in Masontown, W.Va.

The band goes on at 6PM on July 11th - here’s hoping us GPN fans have better luck with this live broadcast than we did with the Mountain Jam show. More about the All Good Music Festival.

Live chat anyone? Sound like a good idea. I’d also personally recommend the Avett Bros. and the Derek Trucks/Susan Tedeschi shows.

“Nothing But The Water + Sweet Virginia”

Nice version of “NBTW” that does away with the a capella opening in favor of a guitar powered lead in. Followed very nicely by a local favorite “Sweet Virginia” by the Stones at the 9:40 mark.

You’ll have to register for the Dave Matthews taping site Dreaming Tree to download the June 21st show and the June 20th show.

The taper, Jason Johnson, asks not to spread the show in lossy (MP3) formats so I won’t put any samples out here.

Setlist For June 21
01 Intro
02 Ah Mary
03 Ain’t No Time >
04 Apologies
05 Stop The Bus
06 Nothing But The Water I >
07 Nothing But The Water II >
08 Big White Gate
09 Pain In My Heart

Setlist for June 20
01 Intro 01:56.02
02 Meantime 05:05.09
03 Ah Mary 04:21.13
04 Treat Me Right 05:49.58
05 Apologies 05:27.13
06 Mastermind 04:47.03
07 Stop The Bus 06:29.55
08 Nothing But The Water I > 03:00.11
09 Nothing But The Water II 08:39.61

Two versions available here and here.

Setlist
01 Sugar
02 Mastermind
03 Stop The Bus
04 Ah Mary
05 Big White Gate
06 If I Was From Paris
07 Watching You

Recorded By Keith Litzenberger & Nicky C from Orchestra Center Row R (as marked on floor)
Transferred, Processed & Uploaded By Keith Litzenberger

Lengthy, thoughtful reviews of both shows that includes extended riffs on The Leaves and Jen Crowell and the Woods Vehicle.

In an era where music gets separated and classified into highly specific genres, it’s slightly comical that a straightforward rock and roll band like Potter & The Nocturnals falls between categories. If they had come around a generation earlier, no such confusion would occur, as they would have fit in nicely with the earthy, rootsy rock bands of the time. In today’s world, people seem to struggle with how to describe a band that consists of a lovely and charming lead singer who plays a devastatingly gorgeous Hammond B3, a guitarist who can expertly deliver the blues as well as reach the melodious heights of guitar geniuses like Roy Buchanan, a bassist who can subtly work the power chords of classic rock without overwhelming the entire sound and a drummer who gets more out of his sparse drum set than most drummers do with a kit twice the size. However you want to characterize them, the New Hampshire shows left no doubt that by defying people’s expectations of what they should be, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals are one formidable, entertaining and exciting band.

I won’t quote all the praise the writer heaps on the band - please read the whole piece yourself.

via the comments section

MPBN has posted the audio of the GPN set at the Skowhegan Opera House in its entirety (with a couple of photos courtesy of Maine fan Alan Holbrook) on this page:

http://www.mpbn.net/mainelive/index.html

Per MPBN’s agreement with GPN’s management, this audio is available only in Streaming Audio format (NOTE: Windows Media Player required) and will remain on MPBN’s web site for 30 days. We will take down the audio on July 30, but until then you can listen as many times as you wish, free of charge.

I’d like to go on record and thank the kind folks at MPBN for broadcasting this live.

As I sit here listening on my headphones to this show all I can say is, wow. This band is really in a live groove on this show. Listen to the double whammy of “Tonight’s The Night” followed by the slashing guitar lead on “Over Again” (one of my personal faves) to understand what it’s all about.

Intro
Sugar
Here’s To The Meantime
Joey
Mastermind
Treat Me Right
Stop The Bus
Thank You’s
Can’t See Through > Ragged Company
Ah, Mary
Ain’t No Time
Apologies
Nothing But The Water
Tonight’s The Night
Over Again
Crowd
Angel Band
Big White Gate

Tape and upload courtesy of SmokinJoe @ archive.org. This show is a keeper.