Album · Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
This Is Somewhere by Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
This Is Somewhere is an album by Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, released in 2007. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 12 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Ah Mary”, on 8 lists with a best position of #12.
This Is Somewhere, the second album from Vermont's Grace Potter and the Nocturnals and their first for a major, landed on Hollywood Records in August 2007. The title tips its hat to Neil Young's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, and the band earned the reference the hard way, grinding out gig after gig on the jam-band and festival circuit before the label came calling.
Potter is the engine, singing lead and switching between guitar and keys, with a voice that has the blues grit of Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt. Scott Tournet adds guitar and lap steel, Bryan Dondero holds down bass and Matt Burr drums, and the songs lean folk rock with a rootsy swagger. "Ah Mary" and "Stop The Bus" found their way to the countdowns, "Apologies" turned up on One Tree Hill and Brothers & Sisters, and "Falling or Flying" on Grey's Anatomy and ER. It opened at number one on Billboard's Heatseekers chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from This Is Somewhere on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ah Mary | 8 | #12 | – | 2007–2023 | |
| 2 | Apologies | 1 | #446 | – | 2013 | |
| 3 | Stop The Bus | 3 | #97 | – | 2007–2013 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.