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Grace Potter to Finally Release Shelved Album She Recorded With T Bone Burnett 18 Years Ago, ‘Medicine’: ‘It’s Like Treasure That’s Been Sitting at the Bottom of the Ocean’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Grace Potter talks about releasing 'Medicine,' an album she recorded with T Bone Burnett 18 years ago that got shelved and is just now seeing light of day.
But that nutshell may go some way toward explaining why it didn’t come out: Potter was seen by her label and management as more of a straight-ahead rocker in a time when rock ‘n’ roll was seen as on the wane and needing a popular savior, and the left turn that “Medicine” represented was seen as getting in the way of that forward momentum. Potter didn’t chafe for long at the idea of redoing the record, though, wanting to prove herself adaptable, and also feeling loyal to her band, which was regrouping with some new members (and included her then-partner as drummer). “It’s that question that always comes up like six, seven times a year, from some random fan who impresses me with their knowledge of my backstory or my earliest songs, or they bought a CD from me out of the back of my car in 2003 — those are the folks that I really felt like they deserve this.
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