Grace Potter records videos at home studio in Vermont for new album 'Mother Road'

MORETOWN – Grace Potter gathered her band and a film crew at her home studio last week to record a video tied in to her latest album, “Mother Road,” which comes out Aug. 18.

The Vermont rock musician lives less than five miles from the home where she grew up in Waitsfield. She shares a home, and a home studio in Moretown, with her husband, record producer Eric Valentine, and their 5-year-old son, Sagan.

A crew from Moving Pictures Division in Waterbury visited Potter’s studio Wednesday as part of a video shoot related to “Mother Road.” According to Potter, the footage will be used for videos for four or five songs from the album as well as for a larger project described as half-documentary, half-fiction.

Musicians on hand for the filming included bass player Kurtis Keber and drummer Jordan West, both of whom have been part of Potter’s recent bands. More-recent additions to her lineup who were at the studio Wednesday are guitarists Indya Bratton and Nick Bockrath; Bockrath is also a member of the rock group Cage the Elephant.

Potter and her band, who just concluded a short tour swing through the South, will perform two shows Sept. 15-16 at the Shelburne Museum. The Sept. 16 show is sold out.

Contact Brent Hallenbeck at bhallenbeck@freepressmedia.com.