Grace Potter Previews Lost T Bone Burnett Collaboration with Second Single “Losing You”

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Grace Potter has released “Losing You,” the long-shelved second single from her upcoming album Medicine. This fierce and fiery roots-rock howl continues the rollout for the record she cut with super-producer T Bone Burnett in 2008, which so totally challenged expectations for the young artist’s style that it wound up stuck in her archives. With its release on May 30 via Hollywood Records, the album preserves a pivotal moment in her artistic development that has only grown more potent in the 17 years since.

“‘Losing You’ is one of the last songs I conjured before recording with T Bone. Once we got into the studio and I heard us all playing together, I fully understood the soundscape we were existing in.” Potter shared. “The demo I made had a ‘Midnight Rider’ vibe, but when we started to play, the band elevated it to a different atmosphere entirely and allowed my voice to soar and for the lyrics to cut in a deeper and a far more meaningful way.”

Medicine is a time capsule from the first act of Potter’s career that sheds light on the irrepressible creative spirit that has since made her one of Americana’s most celebrated voices. Cut in the wake of 2007’s groundbreaking This is Somewhere with The Nocturnals, it takes a sharp left turn from her early brand of uplifting and pop-tinged folk-rock to explore a deeper feeling. There’s a long shadow that looms behind Potter’s dusky, smoldering vocals on the first two singles, reflecting the urgency of her ruminations with heavy-hitting and artfully dissonant arrangements–a Burnett signature.

Burnett first glimpsed Potter’s rising star through an a cappella treatment of 2005’s “Nothing but the Water” and jumped at the opportunity to work with her shortly after. His concept for Medicine was well defined before they set in at Los Angeles’ The Village Studios, and he enlisted a top-tier backing band of guitarist Marc Ribot, drummer Jim Keltner, bassist Dennis Crouch and keyboardist Keefus Ciancia to conjure the intensity he envisioned.

“This record brought me to a new understanding of the diversity of musicality I have within me—it showed me I had so much to share beyond the very male-based, ’70s-throwback, rock-and-roll thing I had been known for up to that point,” Potter reflected. “Maybe it was just so far behind its time or so ahead of its time that I needed to step away from it for a while, keep exploring and keep moving away from anything derivative. This is an album that truly belongs in its own space, and I’m so happy to finally give it the platform I know it deserves.”

Medicine is available to pre-order now. Listen to “Losing You” below and learn more about Potter’s plans for 2025 at gracepotter.com.

Read on for the album’s full tracklist.

Medicine – Grace Potter:
Before The Sky Falls*
Losing You*
That Phone
Money
Colors
Low Road
Medicine
Make You Cry*
Oasis
Paris (Ooh La La)
To Shore*
Goodbye Kiss
(*previously unreleased)