Product Code: QXYA166587200469
Original price was: $25.98.$15.59Current price is: $15.59.An audacious and heart-pounding map of the soul,Mother Roadfinds Grace deconstructing her deepest fears and darkest regrets, charting the fallout with brutal honesty and emotional daring.
Grace Potter on the meaning ofMother Road:
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 US, I hoped that driving the road of flight would give me a birds eye view of my life. But it didnt take long to realize that I was not flying; I was running away. 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 happenedlaunching me down the alternate-reality roads of what could have happened.
Produced by Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Nickel Creek) and recorded at RCAs famed Studio A in Nashville and Topangadise in Topanga, CA,Mother Roadfollows Graces 2019s acclaimed, 2X GRAMMY-nominated album,Daylight. Throughout the albums 10 original tracks, Grace, along with contributions from a top-flight band including guitarist Nick Bockrath, bassist Tim Deaux, drummer Matt Musty, pedal steel guitarist Dan Kalisher, and keyboardist Benmont Tench, commands an expansive soundscape of soulful rock, roots, funk, country, and R&B.
Mother Roads myriad high points include the searing Ready Set Go, which ricochets with stinging slide guitar and attitude to burn; Lady Vagabond, a paean to anti-heroines everywhere; the self-deceptive Rose Colored Rearview; the spirit-purifying All My Ghosts; and the albums wild, theatrical finale, Masterpiece. At the albums center is Little Hitchhiker, a beautifully detailed story-song co-written by superstar songwriter Natalie Hemby, which poignantly re-imagines the time nine-year-old Potter ran away from home, a profound experience that sparked much ofMother Roads narrative.
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