Grace Potter and the Nocturnals at the 20th Century Theater via <a href="http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081211/ENT03/812110345/1026/ENT04">Cincinnati.com</a>. Hey Cincinnati folk, you should also know that the Nocs bought some instruments at <a href="http://www.mikesmusicohio.com/">Mike's Music in Clifton</a> on a previous visit.

<object width="400" height="302"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1691015&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1691015&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="302"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/1691015">Grace Potter and the Nocturnals Gear Talk</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user367028">K Cortez</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.

Grace remembers Bogarts and hey, so do I.

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"Now is a bad time for writing great albums, because it seems like it's all about having just one big hit song," she says. "Back when Neil Young and Bob Dylan were plucking away, it was about writing an entire album of great songs. Not that I'm comparing myself to them, but I'd like to try to keep that pattern going."

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"The 20th Century club was one of the most epic shows we've played," she says about last year's visit. "There was magic in the air ... we crossed some kind of precipice that night. We went from being just a band to a full-on rock band."

Take a bow, Cincinnati. If local fans are responsible in even a small way for raising the group's game, it would be wise to take credit. Potter is in this for the long haul, and if the trajectory continues on its present course, we'll be able to puff out our chests and say we always knew that she would be huge someday.</blockquote>

Pretenders lyrics quoted because I was born and raised in Ohio.
