Grace Potter and the Nocturnals were chosen as the first band to appear on Billboard Magazine’s “Tastemakers” video series. Read on for more information and videos.
“Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity. It takes a while to really hone your craft, and I think we’ve had, almost going on eight years of honing. So I think we finally kind of figured it out. The most important thing to me is that we, at the core of it all, have great songs. So it always comes back to singer-songwriter. So song, songs. It’s all about the songs.
As for working with country superstar Kenny Chesney, Potter says she jumped at the chance. “It was like 2 a.m., and I called immediately and I was like, ‘We have to do this. This is amazing. There’s no question in my mind that this is the right thing to do.’” Chesney, for his part, recently told Billboard, “she’s a great person and I know that she is a hell of a singer. I heard her voice and I knew I would love to sing with her one day. I didn’t know it would be this soon… When she came in and we put our voices together, wow.”
