Grace Potter - Medicine

 

Grace Potter — Medicine

180-gram vinyl double LP

Recorded early in Potter's recording career, and never released until now!

Produced by T Bone Burnett

Hollywood Records presents Medicine by the iconic Grace Potter on gorgeous 180-gram black vinyl. This powerhouse album is equal parts archival gem and thrilling new addition to her extraordinary catalog. Double LP set, gatefold jacket.

"This whole thing is basically just a Richard Linklater movie, you know,"Potter told Variety. She shelved the album she recorded with T Bone Burnett 18 years ago; it seemed destined to remain in the land of lore, until now. Hollywood Records, her former label, is finally reissuing the lost album May 30, 2025, and has already released the first single "Before the Sky Falls."

"When I hear the music now, it really just stands up to all of the things I've always done. I've always aimed to be timeless, but I've grown more immature over the years, so this brings back some of that maturity, I think," Potter says.

It was conceived as a solo album for Potter, away from her band at the time, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. Burnett assembled a team of studio players, and Potter characterized the album as "more of a storyteller, kind of tribal, Motown, voodoo thing. It's really trancey, but also has lots of vocals and plenty of songwriting."

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.

"It just all felt like the adults were weighing in, and I wasn't blaming them for seeing that I wasn't an adult. And I think they saw my charisma and my sexuality and my youthful energy as something that would go away — and they were wrong. It's still there. But at the time, there was a lot of gauging and shaping and sort of forming the brand."

It represents fan servicing as well as a bit of personal vindication and just sheer enjoyment to have it come out now. "I think for me, this really was about the fans, to be totally honest," Potter says. "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. ... Working with T Bone was one of my favorite experiences ever." 

LP 1 Side A

1. Before The Sky Falls

2. Losing You

3. That Phone

LP 1 Side B

1. Money

2. Colors

3. Low Road

LP 2 Side A

1. Medicine

2. Make You Cry

3. Oasis

LP 2 Side B

1. Paris (Ooh La La)

2. To Shore

3. Goodbye Kiss

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