Ingredients:
1 part Bjork vocalization (Starts at 1:45)
2 parts Martina McBride
Three cups full of bottled lightning
Four parts Black Keys mechanization
A Dash of Black Paint
Grace Potter at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston split her time between playing on a Hammond organ, a Rhodes piano and various electric guitars. Impressively, she arranges the keyboard instruments so she can sometime play both the organ and piano at the same time. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are no less impressive in everything from the bass, to the lead guitar, to the drummer. Incredibly, they play one "song" where the entire band plays the drum together (see photo below). What's not to love about a group that can pull that off?
And then the vocalizations? The studio tracks do not do Grace's voice justice at all. This woman can sing, she can sing loudly and she can sing for hours. It's simply stunning, which elicited the Bjork comparison above. The compliment is meant to say that you can imagine Grace Potter taking on any musical genre with her voice alone.
I'm converted. Go see them live before they blow up and you're 50 people back.
