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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.”

From an article in Maine Today.

The Maine Public Broadcasting Network is offering a live webcast of Friday’s concert by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals at the Skowhegan Opera House.

Shortly before 8 pm on Friday, MPBN will establish an audio stream from inside the opera house, located at the Skowhegan Town Hall. Go to mpbn.net to hear the concert live as it happens, for free.

Scott Tournet, lead guitar player for Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, also plays in a band called Blues and Lasers (Myspace) with Matt and Bryan. Today’s MySpace update reads . . .

The new album is finally mixed and mastered!!! We’re now in the process of completing the artwork, so it should be available online and at GPN shows starting July. Hope you like.

There are three new songs up for your listening pleasure. Including the gut busting rock and roll stomp of “Whole New Way Of Going Down”, “Who Do” and “Rooster”. Check it out!

(Note: MySpace is being wonky for me today, the normal MySpace link would be http://www.myspace.com/scotttournet/ but it ain’t working. The link above should do it.).

Local Birmingham music bloggers rate GPN highly here, here,here and here. Looks like a sweep!

Red Blondehead

If you’re a fan of soulful rock blues with folk influences, then you will not want to miss Grace Potter and the Nocturnals on Saturday. In the last few years they’ve been gaining quite the following throughout the U.S. as a result of the band’s thrilling live performances. Read a few reviews of the band’s performances, and you will often see “one of the best live shows I’ve seen!” along with other lavish praise. Grace Potter is only 25, but her voice belies the old soul she must possess. Grace plays a mean Hammond organ in addition to piano and electric and acoustic guitars… and trust us when we say you’ve never heard an organ sound so sexy.

Reg’s Coffehouse

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Saturday, Coca-Cola Classic Stage, 4:15 PM - Like 4th of July fireworks, Grace Potter will explode over Linn Park on Saturday afternoon and leave fans ooohing and ahhing. If you want to see a rising young star, don’t miss this act.

Large Hearted Boy

Grace Potter brings her blues rock that defies comparisons to the festival.

Amber Waves of Twang

This will be show stealer no doubt. A mixture of Blues and Soul delivered with an attitude.

The editors of the recently defunct Harp Magazine announced the launch of Blurt.

a new music digital-magazine and accompanying website (www.BLURT-online.com). Joined by Managing Editor Fred Mills, Senior Editor Randy Harward, Associate Editor Andy Tennille and Contributing Editor A.D. Amorosi, BLURT will raise the bar for modern music and entertainment magazines by combining insightful features, irreverent interviews, relentless reviews, and first-class design standards.

Furthermore, BLURT is proud to announce blog contributions from esteemed critic and former Village Voice Music Editor Chuck Eddy (Singles Again, celebrating vinyl), singer-songwriter Chris Lee (Say It Ain’t Soul, for songwriters), Triple-A veteran and former XM Music Director Kate Bradley (Cut Through the Noise, industry rants and raves) as well as ongoing political opinions from artists as diverse as songwriter James McMurtry, Anti-Flag’s Justin Sane, antifolker Ed Hamell (a/k/a Hamell on Trial) and Grace Potter (of Grace Potter the Nocturnals), with more to be announced.

A quick look at the website looks very promising, I’m looking forward to this. I always found Harp to be an excellenct read.

I arrived home at about 2:15 AM from a stellar day in Lebanon, NH. The band was more than gracious with their time with the fans spending more than an hour at a Potterville Posse arranged meetup and Q&A session where Grace, Scott Bryan and Matt answered questions ranging from guitar choices, to favorite venues to play to online vs. local shopping to what defines “success” for a hard working touring band in today’s music industry climate.

The band hit the stage after an announcement from Child and Family Services of New Hampshire that the two shows in Manchester and Lebanon along with the charitable donations had raised $71,000 for local children in need - amazing.

Once again, the band performed a stellar set to a sold out crowd of over 800 people in the sweaty but fun Lebanon Opera House. Highlights included a ringing version of “Over Again” that brought the entire crowd to thier feet in a standing ovation, a sing along closer cover of Led Zepplin’s “Your Time Is Gonna Come” and a surprise appearance by the talking pickle.

After the show and indefatigable Matt and Grace signed autographs and met fans until well after midnight.

Lot’s of media was captured during the day so keep checking back for pictures and video.

Mary Colurso, music columnist for the Birmingham news, has a nice interview and writeup about Grace Potter and the Nocturnals as a run up to their performance at Birmingham’s City Stages Festival next weekend. The band hits the stage at 4:15 on Saturday the 14th.

Q: Fans say the band has gotten louder, heavier and bluesier over the past few years. Is the sound changing that much?
A: I think every band goes through these transitions, even just from one show to the next. I can only hope we’re going in the right direction. I think I’ve become a gutsier singer. When you come from a jazz or choir background, as I do, everything is always so careful and calculated. But when the band get louder, and the amps get turned up to 11, I have to get louder, too.

The Potterville Posse Street Team has arranged an amazing event for the June 7th show in Lebanon, NH

Questions? Post in the comments and someone will answer you.

Winners

• Live Performance of the Year: Gov’t Mule Bonnaroo
• Tour of the Year: D.U.M.B.
• Studio Album of the Year: The Conch - moe.
• Archival Release: Three From The Vault - GD
• Download of the Year: Headphone Jam - Phish
• Live Album: Live at Murat - UM
• Song of the Year: Cadillac - Keller Williams (accepted by Chevy Chase)
• DVD of the Year: Progressions - Disco Biscuits
• New Groove: Cornmeal

Via Ryan Muir’s Flickr Photostream

“Gold Dust Woman”

I’ll post them as they come in but it will be hard to beat this early writeup from Scott at Hidden Track

Co-Hosts Warren Haynes and Grace Potter opened the show backed by a ridiculously tight supergroup, which included Joe Russo, Booker T. and Will Lee. They fired up intense versions of Find The Coast of Freedom and Gold Dust Woman, as well as a funky Take Me To The River. Many of the impromptu bands that were put together tonight were pretty good, but this band could be absolutely dangerous playing a full show. More please.

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Grace Potter did an amazing job both co-hosting the show and playing with the supergroup, as well as sitting in with Rose Hill Drive and Leslie West of Mountain (Mississippi Queen was sick!). She gets an A+ on the slinky dress that showed off her never ending legs. She also gave a brief heart-felt speech about growing up in Phish’s Vermont. For those keeping track at home Potter changed outfits three times.

Review from Relix Magazine

The strange bedfellows ran through a cover of The Flaming Lips’ “Are You A Hypnotist?,” before Mountain guitarist Leslie West took the stage with Rose Hill Drive for the evening’s loudest offerings. The hard-rock guitarist jammed with Rose Hill Drive and Potter on a version of “I’m Going Down” that included “Close Encounters,” before offering his signature song, “Mississippi Queen.” West also joked that Potter was far more attractive than the members of his testosterone-filled band.

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Image Credit Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com - Blog @ www.insidecelebpics.com

Image Credit Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com - Blog @ www.insidecelebpics.com

Image Credit Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com - Blog @ www.insidecelebpics.com

Grace sang “Whole Lotta Love” with Galactic at the BB Kings after party if you had the stamina to stay up until 3AM.

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Hosted by our very own Tina and Ike Turner Grace Potter and Warren Haynes. Hopefully we’ll see some audio/video of this event. If the last few posts below are any indication of the Grace/Warren interaction we’ll be in for some serious good times.