Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
Grace Potter, a Vermont organist-guitarist and singer, showed up on the indie scene five years ago with a rock quartet and the usual stuff: a strong appreciation for the music of a generation that was not her own. In this case it was the ’70s, and she wanted to play that music again for a newer, younger audience. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals would eventually do a tour of the ’70s, beginning with the recording of folksy rockers and ballads taken right out of some hippie ranch in the pines and arriving, three albums later, at the gritty roots rock that was replacing beer blues by the end of that decade. I wondered if This Is Somewhere was Potter’s answer to Neil Young’s Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. By 2007, the Nocturnals were electrified — like Crazy Horse, but like a Crazy Horse that had been let out of the barn.
The word is that Grace is legally blind and can’t see more than 15 feet in front of her. Things stay sharp up to that point and then just blur out, but she told a reporter that she won’t wear glasses. She says she likes the world at the periphery of her vision to be a smear of color and movement.
I liken Grace to Bonnie Raitt, the difference being that Raitt, with three times the experience, knows how to flog your heart with fewer notes and less effort. Grace Potter sends in her emotions on the back of hand grenades. She rocks hard, plays as though she means it, sweats bullets, and is more than up to the task of reviving that ’70s love.
Brett Dennen also performs.
GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS: House of Blues, Thursday, December 10, 7 p.m. 619-299-2583. $20.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
Grace Potter, a Vermont organist-guitarist and singer, showed up on the indie scene five years ago with a rock quartet and the usual stuff: a strong appreciation for the music of a generation that was not her own. In this case it was the ’70s, and she wanted to play that music again for a newer, younger audience. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals would eventually do a tour of the ’70s, beginning with the recording of folksy rockers and ballads taken right out of some hippie ranch in the pines and arriving, three albums later, at the gritty roots rock that was replacing beer blues by the end of that decade. I wondered if This Is Somewhere was Potter’s answer to Neil Young’s Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. By 2007, the Nocturnals were electrified — like Crazy Horse, but like a Crazy Horse that had been let out of the barn.
The word is that Grace is legally blind and can’t see more than 15 feet in front of her. Things stay sharp up to that point and then just blur out, but she told a reporter that she won’t wear glasses. She says she likes the world at the periphery of her vision to be a smear of color and movement.
I liken Grace to Bonnie Raitt, the difference being that Raitt, with three times the experience, knows how to flog your heart with fewer notes and less effort. Grace Potter sends in her emotions on the back of hand grenades. She rocks hard, plays as though she means it, sweats bullets, and is more than up to the task of reviving that ’70s love.
Brett Dennen also performs.
GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS: House of Blues, Thursday, December 10, 7 p.m. 619-299-2583. $20.
Comments