LABEL: MOTHER ROAD RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: 08/21/2026
VARIANT: Black Vinyl LP

With her new album Trespasser, Grace Potter introduces a beautifully unruly cast of characters who step into forbidden spaces with absolute abandon. As the spiritual sequel to 2023s Mother Road, the four-time Grammy nominees seventh studio LP continues the kaleidoscopic storyline shaped by her many road trips from her Topanga Canyon home to her part-time residence in her native Vermont (a journey shes made eight times in the last five years, usually on her own). But while Mother Road was born from a desperate need for solace in the midst of emotional freefall, Trespasser reveals an artist firmly anchored in her singular vision. The latest chapter in a career marked by endless transformation and elite recognitionincluding sharing stages with rock & roll icons like the Rolling Stones & Robert Plant and earning praise from legends like Bob Dylan and Bonnie RaittTrespasser ultimately lights the way toward a more unbound and expansive means of moving through the world.

Produced by her husband and frequent collaborator Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer, Slash) and recorded in a cross-country journey beginning at her home in Topanga with Benmont Tench, continuing in Nashville with Mother Road session players (members of Cage the Elephant, Kings of Leon, and Train), and completed in Vermont with members of her longtime live band, the album echoes its origins with a wayward sound that spans from stripped-bare soul to cosmic country to hellraising rock & rollall while orbiting Potters force-of-nature voice and lavishly imagined storytelling.

Weve always been taught that the trespassers are the bad guys, but to me its not about reckless rebellion, says Potter. Its about exploring, physically and mentally and emotionally, and being willing to step outside the narratives weve accepted. Because in my experience, the places were told not to go are exactly the ones that show us who we really are.

TRACKLIST

Main Street U.S.A.
Ride or Die
Love Me Not
Gasoline
Run Baby Run
Lost Cafe
Trespasser
The Voice
War on the Mountain
Belong