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We are not familiar with Potter's religious beliefs (if she has any), but she's got the kind of breath control and copper-plated pipes that could win her a soloist spot in any gospel choir in America. Her comment that slow and swampy opener "Joey" was about "bad boys" made us wonder if she might be a preacher's kid. During the high-kicking (literally) funk-rock of "Only Love," that question quickly changed to how on Earth she got left out of the tribute to actual preacher's kid Aretha Franklin at last Sunday's Grammys.

From the<a href="http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2011/02/grace_potter_the_nocturnals_at.php"> Houston Press Blog</a>

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