Photo Credit: TedHeadOne

Excellent video here.

AV: I’ve always preferred to actually go to a music shop and buy an album, rather then download individual tracks or even a CD online. I noticed that you made a comment about the sanctity of the album as a full body of work being lost in this era of single mp3 downloads. Do you try to design your albums so that the individual songs add up to some type of theme?

GP: Yeah, absolutely! I hate when you can tell there’s a lack of continuity on an album, that some songs were just put on there because they’d sell more on iTunes, or because they had some extra stuff lying around, or whatever. You can make the other stuff, the iTunes singles, etc, but when you make an album, make an album! I really like the word you used, sanctity, because if we don’t make a complete album, then what’s going to happen to that format?

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AV: Finally, what are plans for the new album?

GP: We’re planning on starting it in New Year…we get off tour in January, and then we’ll start recording. We don’t know where we’re going to record it yet.

AV: Has the process started?

GP: I’ve got older stuff, but I don’t want to use it until I’ve got a bed of 5 or 6 new songs and then see if [the older material] fits. We’ve got some new stuff, and we’re definitely playing around with it at soundchecks, but it’s more of a private ride than the last album where we road-tested every song.

New video of the full song.

Go Down Low from K Cortez on Vimeo.

Same song, three years later.

Go Down Low - Lebanon, NH - 06/07/08 from K Cortez on Vimeo.

The blues are about soul, and so is really good rock ‘n’ roll. It’s not just the chords being played. It’s not just the composition of the songs. It’s not just the lyrics that speak to the feelings in the listener. It’s all of these things combined and then some. The “then some” is the spirit behind the people playing the music. If you want to go see a good example of what soulful rock ‘n’ roll looks and sounds like, go see Grace Potter and The Nocturnals. Both wild and sweet, they kill it.

Photo Credits: Josh Miller

However, Waitsfield native Grace Potter, now a national recording artist, turned in by far the most impressive performance of the night. I have been a fan of Potter’s since she and her band were playing at Nectar’s in Burlington several years ago. It was a thrill to meet her and her drummer Matt Burr, who has one of the coolest-looking mustaches I’ve seen in a while.

Hard to pick my favorite image from these great photos but here are two standouts. Click on the either image for a full screen slideshow from Patrick Cooley from the Grace Potter and the Nocturnals show at The Independent, San Francisco, 11/14/08.

Now, listen to the music:

Grace Potter, originally uploaded by BrittneyBush.

Once again, Brittney Bush delivers some fantastic shots from the Grace Potter and the Nocturnals show in Seattle last Tuesday.

Please click this link to see the full screen sideshow - the small image here just doesn’t do them justice.

Neumo’s Setlist (via Brittney herself)
Sugar
Sweet Hands
Here’s To The Meantime
Joey
Mastermind
Apologies
Treat Me Right
Stop The Bus
Pain In My Heart (Otis Redding)
Lose Some Time
Arizona (Kings of Leon)
Over Again
Paint It Black (Rolling Stones)
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Nothing But The Water (w/ drum break)