{"id":1845,"date":"2025-05-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-grace-potter\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:00:00","slug":"5-albums-i-cant-live-without-grace-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-grace-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without: Grace Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/Credit_-James-Mountford-2.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"807\" alt=\"Grace Potter. (Credit: James Mountford)\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Grace Potter<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/05\/its-festival-season-does-the-totem-friend-finder-actually-find-your-friends\/\">It\u2019s Festival Season! Does the Totem Friend Finder Actually Find Your Friends?<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/05\/taylor-swift-buys-back-music-rights\/\">Taylor Swift Buys Back Music Rights After Years-Long Dispute<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/05\/alan-sparhawk-lets-go-on-with-trampled-by-turtles\/\">Alan Sparhawk Lets Go on \u2018With Trampled By Turtles\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Best known for<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Showing up in musical collaborations that make zero sense except that it\u2019s happening and it\u2019s too late to think about it so just ENJOY. 3-time Grammy-nominated recording artist, 2-time Doctor of Fine Arts\u20261 time Porn Filmmaker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current city<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Topanga, CA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Really want to be in<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Where else? Topanga! (answering this questionnaire.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excited about<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0My new record\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gracepotter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Medicine<\/a><\/em>, Chris Stapleton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gracepotter.com\/tour\" target=\"_blank\">tour<\/a> this summer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our current music collection has a lot of<\/strong>  \u201960s cocktail music and \u201970s smut movie soundtracks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And a little bit of<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Classical and Jazz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preferred format<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Streaming when I\u2019m lazy. Vinyl when I\u2019m curious. CDs when I\u2019m in my Fiat because the radio is broken and there\u2019s no USB jack.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"EQqB1B0C-3k\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-5-albums-i-can-t-live-without\"><strong><u>5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without:<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1\">1<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-lady-sings-the-blues-nbsp-billie-holiday\"><strong><em>Lady Sings the Blues<\/em>,\u00a0Billie Holiday<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1228\" height=\"1230\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/Lady-Sings-The-Blues-Billie-Holiday.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-465123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/Lady-Sings-The-Blues-Billie-Holiday.png 1228w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/Lady-Sings-The-Blues-Billie-Holiday-340x341.png 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/Lady-Sings-The-Blues-Billie-Holiday-768x769.png 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/Lady-Sings-The-Blues-Billie-Holiday-498x499.png 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1228px) 100vw, 1228px\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong><br \/><\/strong>Billie Holiday\u2019s story is so heartbreaking. I read a lot about her when I first discovered her in high school\u2014and I ended up writing a biopic script in my first semester of film school. I listened to her entire catalogue on a continuous loop, but this album is the one I always come back to. She was just so punk rock\u2014and yet her vulnerability shone through best in this collection of songs. They\u2019re recorded with such subtlety.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2\">2<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-staple-singers-nbsp-the-staple-singers\"><strong><em>The Staple Singers<\/em>,\u00a0The Staple Singers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1282\" height=\"1234\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/The-Staple-Singers-The-Staple-Singers.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-465128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/The-Staple-Singers-The-Staple-Singers.png 1282w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/The-Staple-Singers-The-Staple-Singers-340x327.png 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/The-Staple-Singers-The-Staple-Singers-768x739.png 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/The-Staple-Singers-The-Staple-Singers-498x479.png 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1282px) 100vw, 1282px\"><\/figure>\n<p>This is the album that taught me how soul, blues, gospel, and truth are one and the same. Before I heard this record, I was under the impression that I knew what church music sounded like. Having grown up in predominantly protestant Vermont, I thought praise music was a one-trick pony. Then I heard this album. It made me want to sing from the bottom of my soul, live a more purposeful life, and live like a pirate all at once\u2014just so I could flip the record and beg forgiveness all over again.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-3\">3<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-this-is-dean-martin-nbsp-dean-martin\"><strong><em>This is Dean Martin<\/em>,\u00a0Dean Martin<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1260\" height=\"1242\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/This-is-Dean-Martin-Dean-Martin.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-465129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/This-is-Dean-Martin-Dean-Martin.png 1260w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/This-is-Dean-Martin-Dean-Martin-340x335.png 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/This-is-Dean-Martin-Dean-Martin-768x757.png 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/This-is-Dean-Martin-Dean-Martin-498x491.png 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1260px) 100vw, 1260px\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>This album sends me. No matter what is happening in my life, when this album begins, it feels like Dean is right there in the room with me, elbowing me out of whatever dumb wormhole I\u2019m stuck in. His voice and the strings hit me like a steaming cup of coffee being handed to me when I\u2019m still in bed\u2026this album embodies the world I want to live in.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-4\">4<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-so-excited-nbsp-the-pointer-sisters\"><strong><em>So Excited!<\/em>,\u00a0The Pointer Sisters<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1236\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/So-Excited-The-POinter-Sisters-1290x1236.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-465124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/So-Excited-The-POinter-Sisters-1290x1236.png 1290w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/So-Excited-The-POinter-Sisters-340x326.png 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/So-Excited-The-POinter-Sisters-768x736.png 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/So-Excited-The-POinter-Sisters-498x477.png 498w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/So-Excited-The-POinter-Sisters.png 1442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\"><\/figure>\n<p>This album reminds me of endless afternoons at my family\u2019s little cottage in Vermont\u2026it was just a rickety lakeside shack called \u201cDunrovin.\u201d My mom would wrap me up in an apron, tie my hair up with a rag, and we\u2019d put on\u00a0<em>So Excited!<\/em>\u00a0and dance and clean that place top to bottom. I can literally smell the Murphy\u2019s Oil [Soap]\u2026fresh basil wafting in from the garden\u2026.a pot of boiling lake water on the old stove\u2026.some might call it child labor, but I call it my happy place. Sadly, \u201cDunrovin\u201d was repossessed by the landowners and bulldozed to make way for luxury condos years ago, but when I listen to\u00a0<em>So Excited!<\/em>\u00a0I\u2019m right back there.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-5\">5<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-link-wray-nbsp-link-wray\"><strong><em>Link Wray<\/em>,\u00a0Link Wray<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1121\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/Link-Wray-Link-Wray-1290x1121.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-465125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/Link-Wray-Link-Wray-1290x1121.png 1290w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/Link-Wray-Link-Wray-340x295.png 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/Link-Wray-Link-Wray-768x667.png 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/Link-Wray-Link-Wray-498x433.png 498w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/05\/Link-Wray-Link-Wray.png 1436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\"><\/figure>\n<p>This record sounds like a campfire. Technically speaking, it\u2019s a hot mess. It sounds like it just fell together while the recording engineer was out in the field re-parking people\u2019s cars to make room for the \u201creal band\u201d\u2026who never show up. Shit\u2019s outta tune, people are singing when they\u2019re not supposed to\u2026 nobody seems to particularly care about lyrics\u2026 It perfectly captures the soothing effect of spontaneous chaos.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name\u00a0\u00a0Grace Potter More from Spin: It\u2019s Festival Season! Does the Totem Friend Finder Actually Find Your Friends? 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