Frontyard Festival, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
445 S. Magnolia Ave.
$35-$60
Grace Potter has no complaints about her life today, but she could easily have offered a different assessment not long ago. I m living my best life, as they say, Potter remarked in a recent phone interview with
Orlando Weekly. It s just pretty magical.
The journey that has taken Potter to this place, though, was anything but easy. She saw her long-time band, the Nocturnals, decay and dissolve; went through a divorce from her first husband and Nocturnals drummer, Matt Burr; took a major left turn with her music, became estranged from music altogether and eventually found new love, a new marriage and had a baby son all before re-emerging with her stirring and uncommonly honest current solo album called
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, 2006.
Sunday morning. Sunshine and blue skies piercing through my dusty bedroom window. I’ve been up an hour or so. And yet, I can’t seem to fully fall back asleep. I keep trying, but remain in this dreamlike state, that void between the waking world and the depths of your subconscious.
The laptop near the bed is quietly radiating the sounds of Grace Potter & The Nocturnals. It’s a live show recording from Feb. 18, 2006, captured at the Paradise Rock Club on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts.
Rolling over in bed to turn up the volume of the stereo, I catch eyes with the show date ticking across the screen and it hits me: How can that be 15 years ago? Where has the time gone? Where have all those greatly missed faces and places disappeared to?