★★★★★
Potter's collaboration with Black Key Dan Auerbach on her band's four studio set should have produced tough, blues rocking fireworks. Instead it yields professionally played, commercially acceptable and adequate, but seldom more, melodic rock. If you enjoy '80s Heart, this hangs out in a similar alley, except without Ann Wilson's distinctive vocals...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare Grace Potter and the Summer Singles Leave it to attractive female vocalists to put out fun, just-in-time for summer records. With your Swifts, Perrys, Feists and others busy banking off their previous albums, Grace Potter, with her trusty band The Nocturnals, is kicking off her shoes and laying down some serious hot-weather tunes. The Lion The Beast The Beat shouldn't leave your side this season...
- www.mxdwn.com
2012-07-16
★★★★★
It must be frustrating to be Grace Potter. So much talent, such a fierce band, the kind of charisma that can't be taught, exuding sex and wallop with every turn--and yet, the superstardom she seems test-tubed for has eluded the Vermont-born songwriter who can rock as hard as anyone, yet exhale a ballad with knee-buckling vulnerability. Whatever the missing factor is--songs? connection between the high-gloss image and blues-steeped music? a coherent format to break out of?--it remains elusive...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2012-06-21
★★★★★
The next time someone needs an old abandoned building demolishing they needn't bother with all that hiring a wrecking ball kerfuffle just get Miss Grace Potter to pop over and blow that Mutha down with her lungs. Honestly Potter's got the vocal arsenal of a Greek God--part Joplin, part Boudica, all lethal weapon. A voice designed to tear off roofs and tear-up hearts...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-06-14
★★★★★
Hollywood Listening to the four studio albums that Grace Potter & The Nocturnals have made since 2005, you'd think that four different bands were behind them and, in a sense, that's true. When rhythm guitarist Benny Yurco and bassist Cat Popper joined the fold in 2009, GPN moved away from the earthy rock 'n' soul amalgam that had been their trademark and into something funky, heavy and hard...
- www.relix.com
2012-06-14
★★★★★
This Vermont-based band has been wowing critics across America, and lead singer Grace Potter - who looks and sounds like she'd make a great Dixie Chick - has been compared to both Janis Joplin and Aretha Franklin. Personally, I think a more apt comparison is with Bonnie Raitt, with whom Potter shares an uncanny phrasing. There's some very listenable funky blues and roots music here, and the slide guitar of axeman Scott Tournet gives it all a little rock'n'roll edge.
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
With her sensuous, honey-dew rasp, Potter could easily be Bonnie Raitt's daughter ? she's 22 and, yes, that much time has passed ? and like Raitt, she's drawn to no-goods and scrubs who mess with her head (and, in one case, break her brother's ribs). She knows how to fight back, too: "Get out of my way or I'll start blasting Cat Scratch Fever," she wails. Too bad her music, honed when the cherubic Vermonter opened for Phish offshoots, isn't always as saucy...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
In April of 2010, Rolling Stone magazine declared Grace Potter and the Nocturnals the best jam band of 2010. With its eponymous CD, its second for Hollywood Records, the quintet aims to put that genre classification in the rearview mirror. Sure, the band honed its reputation in the time honored jam-band tradition of tour, tour, tour and then tour some more. As such, it became a defacto must-have band on most festival line-ups though 2009, which put them in front of legions of new fans...
- www.popmatters.com
2010-07-30
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