Photo Credit: Grace Potter
Grace Potter has announced the impending release of her fifth studio album, Mother Road, due on August 18 via Fantasy Records. The twangy title track and its official video are paired with the news of the full-length release, dropped by the artist today.
The forthcoming collection was produced by Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Nickel Creek) and recorded at RCA’s famed Studio A in Nashville, Tenn., and Topangadise in Topanga, Calif. The project sees Potter joined by contributors, including guitarist Nick Bockrath, bassist Tim Deaux, drummer Matt Musty, pedal steel guitarist Dan Kalisher, and keyboardist Benmont Tench.
Potter’s new album will arrive after her 2019 released two-time Grammy-nominated LP, Daylight. Mother Road comprises 10 tracks, including a fiery “Ready Set Go,” which features stinging slide guitar, “Little Hitchhiker,” a stunning detailed story-song co-written by superstar songwriter Natalie Hemby, in addition to the album’s theatrical finale, “All My Ghost.”
In a press release shared by the artist, she offered, “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 U.S., 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.”
She continued, “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.”
Pre-order Mother Road now. Stream the lead single, and watch its adjoining music video below.
Scroll down to view the complete tracking list for the new LP.
Mother Road – Track List:
1. Mother Road
2. Truck Stop Angels
3. Ready Set Go
4. Good Time
5. Little Hitchhiker
6. Lady Vagabond
7. Rose Colored Rearview
8. All My Ghosts
9. Futureland
10. Masterpiece