Grace Potter - Twilight Hour, Volume 2 - Home Concert, Topanga, CA, 5-4-2020 to 5-11-2020

About a month ago, I published the a home concert by Grace Potter. It was the first of bunch, and this is the second. You might want to read what a wrote there for some general information. In short, she's been performing home concerts that are roughly an hour long once a week for most of the coronavirus lockdown. For this album, I had to combine two such home concerts for there to be enough material for an album. This one is an hour and two minutes long.

Sometimes for her home concerts, Potter has performed mostly or entirely her own songs. But for these two shows, nearly all the songs are covers. There are two originals towards the end. Some were performed solo, but the vast majority were played with a small band, generally just a drummer and lead guitarist, plus Potter on keyboards or guitar.

For these shows, Potter clearly was just winging it most of the time. I had to cut out a lot of songs because she only tested the waters, typically playing just one verse. For instance, for the second show, she played portions of the following songs, which I didn't include: "That's Alright Mama," "I Can't Stand the Rain," "Stacey's Mom," "Bohemian Rhapsody," "Grandma's Hands," "You Really Got Me," "Whipping Post," and "What a Wonderful World." I hope she returns to full versions of those later!

I only included the songs that were done in full and clearly worked. No doubt, a lot of these have been done by her and her band in concert in the past, because they sounded good. Others were done for the first time. For the second show, which is comprised of songs 11 through 17, most of the songs were about mothers in some way, because the show took place close to Mother's Day. I'm guessing that more of those were done for the first time.

Anyway, if you haven't heard Grace Potter before, this is a good time to jump on board, due to her mostly doing classic songs that you're probably familiar with. Hopefully you'll discover that she's an excellent vocalist, but also a talented instrumentalist, and she has great taste in music.

01 Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
02 Jolene - Dolly Parton
03 Out on the Weekend - Neil Young
04 Gold Dust Woman - Fleetwood Mac
05 White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
06 When Doves Cry - Prince
07 Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
08 Ring of Fire - Mystery Train - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Johnny Cash / Elvis Presley / Sherman Brothers
09 Love the One You're With - Stephen Stills
10 Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
11 Every Heartbeat - Grace Potter
12 True Fine Mama - Little Richard
13 Come to Mama - Ann Peebles
14 Mama Told Me Not to Come - Randy Newman / Three Dog Night
15 Big White Gate - Grace Potter
16 That's the Way - Led Zeppelin
17 Tell Mama - Etta James

Here's the usual song list:

01 Into the Mystic (Grace Potter)
02 Jolene (Grace Potter)
03 Out on the Weekend (Grace Potter)
04 Gold Dust Woman (Grace Potter)
05 White Rabbit (Grace Potter)
06 When Doves Cry (Grace Potter)
07 Whole Lotta Love (Grace Potter)
08 Ring of Fire - Mystery Train - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Grace Potter)
09 Love the One You're With (Grace Potter)
10 Wild Horses (Grace Potter)
11 Every Heartbeat (Grace Potter)
12 True Fine Mama (Grace Potter)
13 Come to Mama (Grace Potter)
14 Mama Told Me Not to Come (Grace Potter)
15 Big White Gate (Grace Potter)
16 That's the Way (Grace Potter)
17 Tell Mama (Grace Potter)

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For some, but not all of Potter's home concerts, she had made some promotional artwork using a chalkboard in her house. The mother-themed show of May 11, 2020 had such artwork made for it. I enjoy her artistic style, so I used that for the cover. I made a few minor changes to the lower half, changing the date mentioned from "May 11" to "May 4 - 11," and removing some other text.