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Grace Potter and the Nocturnals tear it up at Tanglewood
There is hope for music after all, and it comes in the form of a hippy chick from Vermont
Rock isn’t dead; in fact it turned up at one of the least likely venues, Tanglewood in Lenox, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Monday night and it came on the bus that brought Grace Potter and the Nocturnals to town.
From the minute they took the stage, the crowd was on their feet, and they remained that way the whole way through the band’s energetic 2 hour plus show. From the start, with an up beat “Medicine” off the band’s eponymous 2010 album, Grace had a hold on the crowd.
You like the way she makes you feel
She got you spinning on her medicine wheel
She’s crossing me with magnetic sand
She hypnotize with her mojo hand– Medicine
The early set was laced with material off the latest album, “The Lion, The Beast and the Beat”, released in late 2012, with “Never Go Back”, “Timekeeper”, “Keepsake” all featured prominently.
From there, Grace launched into a request for “Treat Me Right” a song off her first album, released in 2005 entitled “Nothing But the Water”. Here their jam band roots shown, with a well matured, smoky, sultry version of the song, delivered down tempo. A thoroughly different treatment than the album, or the earlier faster paced, heavier versions of the song.
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Don’t forget our cherished Veterans to whom we all owe a great debt which can never be paid in full [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrQnnZJ68Xo[/youtube]