It’s easy to draw a straight line from the confessional anthems of Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon to the unapologetic ballads of Grammy-nominated musician Grace Potter. In particular, to Potter’s two most recent albums, Daylight, from 2019, and Mother Road, released just last week, in which she has mined her experiences as a woman, a wife, and a mother to write unfiltered, honest songs.
“There was a lot of denial going on,” Potter, 40, says of writing Mother Road. “I think that’s just part of my creative process: I have to go through denial in order to find acceptance.”
