seriously though, the Cat fawking loves country music.  not to say Ches plays that kind of country music...but yeah u right about Puss n Boots, Ryan Adams, and Joe Whyte.  u can add Willie Nelson, Tony Rice, Levon Helm and Neil Young to that list of twanged out Cat projects and that's just the stuff i know of or am remembering off hand.  the girl even plays the pedal steel guitar.  if u tell me that's not country music u might as well tell me there's no traffic on the brooklyn-queens expressway at 5:00 in the afternoon.  as for Grace Potter, yeah u right about that girl too.  as we all know shes a little bit country, she's a little bit noc n roll. always has been, hopefully always will be. lets face it most of us tolerate Ches with an open mind just cause we are Grace fans.  he is deserving of that much from us but it is his fans that benefit most from this collaboration. and they deserve it for the prices they pay and their loyalty to him.    the pairing has been a success so why not book a string of big shows with GPN opening.  only seems right.  last summer they threw together Red Rocks at the last minute and did a few impromptu sit-ins.  so why not formalize it for a run and get everyone on the same page?  thats not selling out, she's fine.  if anything i have been more caught off guard by her recent string of red carpet appearances and all the endorsements, but hey, who am i to judge.  i happen to love the Disney and TV stuff, so there u have it (keep it comin Potter!).  we are all entiled to our opinions and at the end of the day she is a girrly girl so it is what it is.  remember Grace only played one night at Red Rocks with Ches but he had 3 shows there.  so the other 2 nights his fans missed out.  i think this thing will run its course and Grace will get back to playing the smaller swampy standing room clubs that she likes the most, and by then it will be a welcome change from the shorter stadium set. but for now its an opportunity not to be missed.  also for the record i have no idea who Tim McGraw is.

and just a sort of random thought...i will never forget that interview she did right after the VH1 DIVA performance.  she was asked "you are the new/unknown musician here tonight so how does it feel to be a DIVA?" (or something like that)  and Grace said, standing there in the sparkly t-shirt dress "actually im not a DIVA i live with my parents in Vermont and harvest my own maple syrup from the trees in my backyard" (or something like that).  man i will never forget the look on that other girls face that was interviewing her.  that has got to be good for something.  i think that interview was a perfect example of what it takes to make it in the industry today.  u got to stick to your roots, but u got to take chances and jump on an opportunity when it is there.  just look at what came of that DIVA performance (and yeah she did it without Catherine).  go listen to the Talking Heads song "Once in a Lifetime" and get back to me on that one. (... and you may ask yourself, "how did i get here???")