When did Grace Potter’s Medicine release? Details explored as Grammy-nominated singer performs live at CBS ‘Saturday Morning’

Grace Potter has fans swooning with her live performance of Before the Sky Falls from her new album, Medicine, at CBS' Saturday Morning.

The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter dropped her latest album on May 30, 2025. It includes a 12-track setlist and was produced by T Bone Burnett. Variety has reported that the project was shelved 18 years ago, prompting the songstress to tout it over the years.

Fans can now get a taste of what should have been, seeing as, according to CBS News, Grace Potter managed to convince her label to drop the project last month. Speaking with Variety recently, she reflected on how the long overdue project finally came to be when she shot the music video for the title track at her home in California:

“This whole thing is basically just a Richard Linklater movie, you know,” she quipped. “Or I feel like it’s like putting an inscription in a yearbook for somebody you haven’t seen in, I don’t know, 17, 18 years, and they come to you and they’re like, ‘Look at this book. Can you finally write me like a little note so I can have something to remember you by?’ It feels very good to reinscribe it with, like, a nice calligraphy pen.”

Grace Potter continued,

“When I hear the music now, it really just stands up to all of the things I’ve always done. I’ve always aimed to be timeless, but I’ve grown more immature over the years, so this brings back some of that maturity, I think.”

Grace Potter recalls feeling "gutted" upon learning that Medicine was going to be shelved 18 years ago: Read more

Grace Potter joined Burnett, as well as heavyweight musicians like drummer Jim Keltner, keyboard player Keefus Ciancia, Marc Ribot on the guitar, and bassist Dennis Crouch, as they crafted the solo album in Los Angeles back in 2008, long before she earned Grammys and hit the road for sold-out tours.

Following her pit stops in Chicago for a tour in support of her 2023 album Mother Road, she spoke to Forbes via a call about what it's like to perform for her.

“That is who I really am. And I really loved and appreciated the audience and how willing they were to partake in the experience of going into the wormholes of my mind. And creating something new - on the spot, together! Because it’ll never happen that way again,” she said. “And, in that same way, I think that this record is just such an interesting moment in my life,” she added, referencing Medicine.

Grace Potter went on,

“Up until that point, I was under the impression that a song is a song is a song. ‘Here it is on my guitar. But now I’ll play it on the keyboard.’ That shouldn’t change much for people - but it does. It really does! And I think allowing in the artistry of people who’ve done this a lot - who have the history and the trust with a producer like T Bone - I think it revealed truths within the lyrics of the song, and even within the vocal performances, that I didn’t even know existed. Until I listened back with fresh ears.”

Speaking with Variety, she admitted to feeling hurt when she learned that the album was going to be shelved nearly 2 decades ago. She was excited for it to come out until her old manager informed her of the news, adding that she would have to record most of the songs with a different producer.

"That was a complete gut punch to me — mostly because of how fun it was to make. … It just all felt like the adults were weighing in, and I wasn’t blaming them for seeing that I wasn’t an adult. And I think they saw my charisma and my s*xuality and my youthful energy as something that would go away — and they were wrong. It’s still there. But at the time, there was a lot of gauging and shaping and sort of forming the brand," she said.

Variety has reported that Grace Potter eventually went on to record about two-thirds of the album's tracks for her next album, which ended up being 2010's Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. Mark Batson served as its producer, and her then-partner served as its drummer.

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