Grace Potter to Finally Release Shelved Album She Recorded With T Bone Burnett 18 Years Ago, ‘Medicine’: ‘It’s Like Treasure That’s Been Sitting at the Bottom of the Ocean’ (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Grace Potter has a “new” T Bone Burnett-produced release coming out, “Medicine,” and it’s something that her label put out a press release announcing and she even did interviews touting… in the late 2000s.

Fans didn’t forget this would-have-been, should-have-been album from early in her recording career, but it seemed destined to remain in the land of lore, until now.

Hollywood Records, her former label, will finally issue the lost album May 30, and a first single, “Before the Sky Falls,” arrives as a teaser today.

Potter told Variety the story of how the project came to be — or, for 18 years, not to be — amid shooting a video for the title track at her California home, admitting that it might set some kind of record for time elapsed between the recording of a song and its music video. “This whole thing is basically just a Richard Linklater movie, you know,” she laughs, likening it to one of the filmmaker’s projects that is filmed over a period of many years. “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.