Grace Potter To Release Long-Shelved T-Bone Burnett-Produced Album ‘Medicine’

In 2008, singer-songwriter Grace Potter recorded an album’s worth of material with renowned producer T Bone Burnett that, for various reasons, was not released. Potter revisited those sessions at The Village Studios in Los Angeles, and the long-shelved album will finally be released as Medicine via Hollywood Records on May 30.

Originally intended as the follow-up to the sophomore album by Potter’s former band The Nocturnals, 2007’s This Is Somewhere, the sessions with Burnett came soon after its release. An ace group of musicians backed Potter, who recorded with drummer Jim Keltner, bassist Dennis Crouch, guitarist Marc Ribot and keyboardist Keefus Ciancia.

The lead single, “Before The Sky Falls,” is one of four songs on the 12-track album not previously released, along with “Losing You,” “Make You Cry” and “To Shore.” Reflecting on Medicine, Potter stated:

“I remember being in the studio with T Bone and feeling like this was everything I’d been waiting for, and I couldn’t go wrong — it never occurred to me that the album might not get released But even though I felt a great urgency to put the record out back then, I’m at peace with the fact that it’s taken this long. I’m at a point where I have a much stronger understanding of what I have to offer the world, and this offering feels like it’s right on time.

“This record brought me to a new understanding of the diversity of musicality I have within me — it showed me I had so much to share beyond the very male-based, ’70s-throwback, rock-and-roll thing I had been known for up to that point.

“Maybe it was just so far behind its time or so ahead of its time that I needed to step away from it for a while, keep exploring and keep moving away from anything derivative. This is an album that truly belongs in its own space, and I’m so happy to finally give it the platform I know it deserves.”

Stream “Before The Sky Falls” here:

Medicine Tracklist

1. Before The Sky Falls*
2. Losing You*
3. That Phone
4. Money
5. Colors
6. Low Road
7. Medicine
8. Make You Cry*
9. Oasis
10. Paris (Ooh La La)
11. To Shore*
12. Goodbye Kiss

(*previously unreleased)