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Grace Potter Releases Trespasser Via Thirty Tigers
Potter To Perform On CBS Saturday Morning Tomorrow
Potter's Beloved Grand Point North Festival Returns To Burlington, VT September 18-20
LEAD SINGLE "LOVE ME NOT" HITS TOP 5 AT AMERICANA RADIO & TOP 10 AT TRIPLE A RADIO
STREAM THE ALBUM HERE
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 (LOS ANGELES, CA) - Today, four-time GRAMMY nominee Grace Potter released her seventh studio album, Trespasser, via Thirty Tigers. Across 10 tracks, Trespasser introduces a beautifully unruly cast of characters who step into forbidden spaces with absolute abandon. Today, Potter also released the music video for "Mainstreet U.S.A." Watch it HERE .
Tomorrow, Potter will perform a selection of songs from the album on CBS Saturday Morning, including the album's lead single "Love Me Not," which is currently Top 5 and climbing at Americana Radio and Top 10 and climbing at Triple A Radio.
Earlier this summer, she performed the album's first single, "Love Me Not," on Live with Kelly & Mark - watch the electric performance HERE . She also performed a few songs and discussed the album and its inspirations on WNYC's All of It with Alison Stewart - listen HERE .
Trespasser is available on vinyl in several exclusive vinyl variants, including Cell Block Black (standard black vinyl), Hot Pursuit Orange (Grace Potter webstore exclusive), Stock Tank Blue (indie retail exclusive), and Double Detour Red (Talk Shop Live exclusive). Order the album HERE .
"We've always been taught that the trespassers are the bad guys, but to me it's not about reckless rebellion-it's about exploring, physically and mentally and emotionally, and being willing to step outside the narratives we've accepted,"Potter shares. "Because in my experience, the places we're told not to go are exactly the ones that show us who we really are."
As the spiritual sequel to 2023's critically acclaimed Mother Road, Potter continues the kaleidoscopic storyline shaped by her many road trips from her Topanga Canyon home to her part-time residence in her native Vermont (a journey she's made eight times in the last five years, usually on her own). But while Mother Road was born from a desperate need for solace in the midst of emotional freefall, Trespasser reveals an artist firmly anchored in her singular vision. The latest chapter in a career marked by endless transformation and elite recognition, Trespasser ultimately lights the way toward a more unbound and expansive means of moving through the world.
Although each song on Trespasser opens a window onto her inner landscape, Potter conceptualized the album as a dimension-hopping road saga, weaving together what she refers to as "these fables and storylines that have been whooshing around my soul for a very long time." Part myth, part fever dream, the LP's rotating cast of drifters circles around Topeka: a wild-hearted nomad who drives off a bridge in the breathless and scorching "Ride Or Die," only to be resurrected within the spectral reverie of "Gasoline." With its ensemble of misfits also including the lascivious ghost of a café delivery boy and the jealousy-crazed diner owner who killed him, Trespasser turns epic on "War On The Mountain"-a mythic psychodrama in which wholeness comes from making peace with all the selves you were told to exile.
Produced by her husband and frequent collaborator Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer, Slash) and recorded in a cross-country journey beginning at her home in Topanga with Benmont Tench (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers), continuing in Nashville with Mother Road session players Nick Bockrath (Cage the Elephant), Tim Deaux (Kings of Leon), and Matt Musty (Train), and completed in Vermont with members of her longtime live band (guitarists Indya Bratton and Ricky Dover Jr, bassist Kurtis Keber, drummer Jordan West), the album echoes its origins with a wayward sound that spans from stripped-bare soul to cosmic country to hellraising rock & roll-all while orbiting Potter's force-of-nature voice and lavishly imagined storytelling.
Next week, Potter will begin a string of 11 shows with Zac Brown Band on their Love and Fear Tour. She'll kick off her stretch of the tour with two nights at Forest Hills Stadium in New York City, and will also offer support at Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, SC, Allstate Arena in Rosemont, IL, two nights at the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatrein Morrison, CO, and more. For more information and tickets, please visit https://www.gracepotter.com/tour/ .
Tickets are also on sale for Potter's annual Grand Point North Festival. The beloved festival will take place at Waterfront Park in her native Burlington, VT on September 18, 19, and 20. The newest addition to the lineup is Jackson Browne, who will perform on Saturday, September 19. This will mark Jackson Browne's second appearance at Grand Point North, following a 2018 set and encore performance with Potter. Previously announced performers includePortugal. The Man, Dawes, Dark Star Orchestra, Trampled By Turtles, The Devil Makes Three, and Maggie Rose, as well as a variety of local Vermont bands.
Profits will go towards Potter's Grant Point Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to supporting the arts in Vermont. For more information and tickets, please visit https://www.grandpointnorth.com/ .
TRESPASSER TRACKLISTING
- Main Street U.S.A.
- Ride Or Die
- Love Me Not
- Gasoline
- Run Baby Run
- Lost Cafe
- Trespasser
- The Voice
- War On The Mountain
- Belong
GRACE POTTER 2026 TOUR DATES
August 27 - Forest Hills, NY - Forest Hills Stadium+
August 28 - Forest Hills, NY - Forest Hills Stadium+
August 29 - Philadelphia, PA - TD Pavilion at Highmark Mann+
September 11 - Nantucket, MA - The Muse
September 18 - Burlington, VT - Grand Point North Festival
September 19 - Burlington, VT - Grand Point North Festival
September 20 - Burlington, VT - Grand Point North Festival
October 8 - Knoxville, TN - Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center+
October 9 - Greenville, SC - Bon Secours Wellness Arena+
October 10 - Greensboro, NC - First Horizon Coliseum+
October 19 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre+
October 20 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre+
November 9 - November 10 - Orlando, FL - Eat To The Beat
November 14 - Wilmington, NC - Brooklyn Arts District
November 19 - Lincoln, NE - Pinnacle Bank Arena+
November 20 - Des Moines, IA - Casey's Center+
November 21 - Rosemont, IL - Allstate Arena+
+ supporting Zac Brown Band
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