BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:172@jointherevolution.net DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200111T225900 DTSTAMP:20191108T152032Z URL:https://www.jointherevolution.net/concerts/grace-potter/ SUMMARY:Grace Potter DESCRIPTION:In the years that followed the release of her widely acclaimed 2015 album Midnight\, Grace Potter considered never putting out a record a gain. Having endured the tumult of the breakup of her band and subsequent divorce— as well as far more joyful events like a new marriage and the b irth of her first child— Potter continued writing on her own\, but had n o intention of sharing those songs with the world. “Too many things had happened\, and I needed to take a step back\,” says the Vermont-born art ist. “There were moments where I thought\, ‘Maybe I’ll just go back to painting houses.’” \n\nBut by the end of 2017\, Potter began to fe el the call of the studio and soon started laying down tracks in the Topan ga Canyon home she’d recently settled into with her husband\, Midnight p roducer Eric Valentine. Unsigned and entirely free of any pressure to appe ase\, Potter slowly carved out the songs that now make up Daylight: an alb um that emerges as her most emotionally revealing\, musically daring\, and exactingly realized body of work to date. \n\n“In the past\, I’ve ai med to write songs from a universal perspective\; so that anyone who heard my music could relate\, but that actually made it harder for me to take o wnership of my own perspective. This new collection of songs were all writ ten so that I could process – and be accountable for – my own life exp erience\,” Potter says. “I had just pulled the ripcord on my whole lif e. It was an incredibly jarring\, private experience. When the dust settle d a bit\, the last thing I wanted to do was tell the whole world about it. It was a very gradual process of re-framing music and its purpose in my l ife. So when I finally started writing songs again - I did it for me.”  \n\nPotter’s seventh full-length and first release for Fantasy Records\, Daylight was created in close collaboration with producer/mixer/engineer Eric Valentine. In constructing the album’s wild collage of rock-and-rol l\, blues and soul\, Potter tapped into her tightly honed musicianship whi le harnessing the untamed energy of her live performance for the very firs t time. “I had kind of resigned myself to the fact that I was always goi ng to be better live than in the studio - but Eric was determined to tap i nto that raw energy that I have onstage.” she says. “He chased down a few different approaches\, ultimately creating a kind of live music venue setup in his studio\, so I could feel the sound reflecting off the walls a nd interact with the band instead of just singing into a void.” \n\nPar tly recorded in Potter’s garage and living room\, Daylight mostly came t o life through a series of live- to-tape sessions at Valentine’s Hollywo od studio\, Barefoot Recording. Along with capturing the undeniable vocal power Potter’s previously shown in sharing the stage with The Rolling St ones\, Robert Plant\, and Neil Young\, the album unfolds with an irresisti bly vital sound birthed with the help of guests like Benmont Tench and Luc ius. “Having all these incredible musicians playing live in the room wit h me gave the recording an urgency—like\, this matters right now\,” Po tter recalls. \n\nOn the album-opener “Love Is Love\,” Potter brings that urgency to a breathtaking slow-burner\, her voice shifting from fragi le to soaring with understated elegance. The very first piece written for Daylight\, the track finds Potter fully surrendering to unbridled feeling —a process so unsettling\, it temporarily put her off from attempting an y further self-examination in song form. “‘Love Is Love’ is so confe ssional\, it \n\nwas terrifying. I dove deep into the darkest corners of my personal life.” she says. “After we recorded the demo\, I had no de sire to keep on writing because the feelings were still too raw. I wasn’ t ready to dig any deeper.” \n\nJust one song later\, Potter proves to have wholly conquered that fear\, turning out a full-tilt rocker raging wi th pure passion. With her vocals taking on a gravelly intensity\, “On My Way” telegraphs unhinged joy as Potter documents a particularly fraught moment from the past few years when she took a solo drive across the coun try. “Once you allow certain feelings in\, there’s no turning back.” Freewheeling and cathartic\, “On My Way” builds its frenetic tension in part from a riff that she and Valentine conjured up on their back porch . “Musically\, it’s meant to take you in two directions—there’s a powerful tension between darkness &\; light. It’s a theme that plays out a lot on this record\, and that riff kinda just says it all.” Potter notes. \n\nThroughout Daylight\, Potter imbues her songs with equal part s aching vulnerability and unapologetic self-possession. A stark piano bal lad partly written while Potter was in the process of moving out of her ho me\, “Release” transmits a quiet sorrow but ultimately finds its resol ution in a lyric supplied by co- writer Mike Busbee (“I hope that someda y/The sun will shine again/And you’ll release me too”). On “Reposses sion\,” meanwhile\, Potter sharply contrasts the song’s sleepy rhythm\ , dreamy guitar tones\, and unearthly harmonies with a brilliant lyrical b arb (“And you say/That I threw it all away for nothing/But the only thin g I threw away/Was you”). “We were driving through the Southwest\; we stopped at a pawnshop and bought this busted old guitar with a missing str ing\, dragged it out to these vast sand dunes and just started playing\, ” Potter recalls in revealing the song’s origins. “We’d been liste ning to a lot of classic country and AM radio on the road trip. These hear t-wrenching songs spoke directly to what we were going through - and even though they were recorded over 50 years ago\, it felt like they’d been r eading my diary - so when we sat down to write\, ‘Repossession’ just h appened. Like it had always been there\, just waiting for someone to show up and claim it.” \n\nWhile much of Daylight mirrors the emotional chao s of her recent past\, the album also channels a certain soulful wonder on songs like “Every Heartbeat\,” an acoustic-guitar-laced serenade for Valentine and their infant son\, Sagan. And on “Desire\,” Daylight dri fts into an unpredictably playful mood\, serving up a sweetly winking cele bration of unabashed lust. “I’ve often cloaked my carnal themes in met aphor.” Potter notes. “Ultimately that approach lost a lot value for m e. I was tired of burying my desires\, my truth\, my pain...in euphemisms. I had to start over &\; rebuild my sense of self\, so I went straight to the source with a song that celebrates the fact that we’re all just a nimals.” \n\nOn the title track and finale to Daylight\, Potter offers up one of the album’s most galvanizing and glorious moments: a shapeshif ting epic that endlessly careens from simmering blues lament to brutally t hunderous rock-and-roll anthem. “It’s a song about the darkest time. ” Potter recalls. “We started composing that song because we wanted to honor the long\, difficult process of finding peace. It’s a musical boo kmark\; and a reminder that darkness doesn’t last forever.” \n\nFor P otter\, the making of Daylight marks a return to the unfettered creativity she felt upon first discovering songwriting. “I really dug back into th e roots of my creativity. When I was 12 or 13\, I would sneak away to writ e songs because I didn’t want anyone to hear me bearing all\,” she say s. “It was all so honest\, because I had no awareness of how people migh t perceive me.” At the same time\, she made use of the masterful chops s he’s developed over the course of her career\, a 15-year run that’s in cluded playing nearly every major music festival (in addition to launching her own festival\, Burlington’s Grand Point North. “Throughout my car eer\, I’ve always been a bit of a tinkerer\; experimenting &\; explor ing all these different facets of who I am through music\,” says Potter. “But this album isn’t an experiment: it’s a statement.” \n\nAs s he shares that statement with the world\, Potter hopes that Daylight’s f earless honesty might inspire each listener to embrace their own truth\, i n all its messy complexity. “This album is about being able to take comp lete ownership of your feelings\, without any anger or hate or shame. And that can be absolutely terrifying— but once you get to the other side\, it’s exhilarating. It’s the feeling of knowing that you’re finally h ome.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.jointherevolution.net/wp-content/upl oads/2019/09/Grace-Potter-Revolution-11x17.jpg CATEGORIES:All Ages,Concerts LOCATION:Revolution Live\, 100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Lauderdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States GEO:26.121358;-80.1461974 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Laud erdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Revolution Live:geo:26.121358,-80.1461974 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR