Listen: Grace Potter Previews Archival T Bone Burnett Collaboration with “Oasis”

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Grace Potter has released “Oasis,” the third single from her long-shelved upcoming album Medicine, due to arrive on May 30 via Hollywood Records, With this purposeful, slow-burning Americana reflection on resilience, Potter continues to roll out 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.

“I wrote ‘Oasis’ with the brilliant Mark Batson, so while people might recognize the song from the eponymous album, the approach I took on it with T Bone is about as far afield as a song arrangement could ever be,” Potter reflected on the latest preview track. “I love both versions because the song is just so moody and flexible. This is definitely one of my favorite reimaginings on the album.”

Medicine is a time capsule from a pivotal moment in Potter’s early 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, 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 “Oasis” below and learn more about Potter’s plans for 2025 at gracepotter.com.

Read on for the album’s full tracklist.

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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)

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