<img src="http://daytrotter.com/images/1747.jpg" align="left" alt="grace nasa" />I've been waiting patiently for this to happen. <a href="http://daytrotter.com/article/1523/grace-potter-and-the-nocturnals">The Daytrotter sessions</a> including two new songs "Women of Your Dreams" and "One Short Night"

<blockquote>Her music oozes with a kind of friends with benefits connotation, even though it isn’t necessarily at all about physical attraction, lustiness or bedding down with anyone. It has the makings – in as many different ways as you can think up – of a friendship that inevitably will turn into some sort of deeper infatuation that is normal and telegraphed. She is desire because of the desire she has for all things rock and roll – for the history of music, for the power of love, for the almighty ballad, for the hard-drinking debauchery, for the saltier language, for the blackouts, for the feeling that it infuses, where getting and becoming more alive isn’t possible. You’re already there with rock and roll and Potter has found a way to transcend the goodness of Dolly Parton, Janis Joplin and the Rolling Stones – amongst others — in a very unique way with her songs.</blockquote>

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"One Short Night"
The thing that struck me about this song was the throwback sound that's clearly closer to the "singer songwriter" thing Grace mentioned to me a few days back. I love the plucky beat. Lyrically very strong. I can see this one live - it would really play into the "exploding on stage" thing. Are some of those drums looped? Or are we witnessing more or a mechanized Matt?

"Woman Of Your Dreams"
I woke up and I was in Laurel Canyon.

"Paint It Black" / "Paris" / "Watching You"
The sound engineer at DayTrotter clearly got the crunchy guitars. It's great to hear these live staples free of erroneous background noise. What the Nocs excel at is doing this live setup stuff in studio. If you listen to this and the Sirius studio sessions I think you'd have to agree.