Grace Potter confirmed a new album, Mother Road — her first in four years — set for release on August 18 via Fantasy Records. The acclaimed singer-songwriter also shared a video for the title track.
The follow-up to Potter’s Grammy-nominated 2019 album Daylight, Mother Road is Grace’s fifth studio LP. Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Nickel Creek) helmed the album captured at Nashville’s storied RCA Studio A and Topangadise in Topanga, California.
Potter tapped an ace band of musicians to play on her new record including former Heartbreaker Benmont Tench on keyboards along with guitarist Nick Bockrath, bassist Tim Deaux, drummer Matt Musty and pedal steel guitarist Dan Kalisher. Grace also teamed up with renowned singer-songwriter Natalie Hemby to co-write the track “Little Hitchhiker.”
Potter further detailed Mother Road:
“In Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck called Route 66 the ‘The Mother of all roads…the road of flight.’ As I zeroed out my odometer and started west on my road trip across the US, I hoped that driving the road of flight would give me a bird’s eye view of my life. But it didn’t take long to realize that I was not flying; I was running away. In the solitude, I found myself smashing open the piggy bank of deeply-buried memories. Those gems of my real-life exploits spilled into my creative consciousness and emboldened me to write an album that reaches far beyond what actually happened–launching me down the alternate-reality roads of what could have happened.”
Check out the Catherine Fordham-directed video for “Mother Road,” “a phenomenal Pulp Fiction meets Thelma and Louise styled romp,” as per a press release, along with an album trailer below:
Mother Road Tracklist:
- Mother Road
- Truck Stop Angels
- Ready Set Go
- Good Time
- Little Hitchhiker
- Lady Vagabond
- Rose Colored Rearview
- All My Ghosts
- Futureland
- Masterpiece
