As you may or may not know, every big-name musician has a publicist, and one of the publicist’s jobs is to write a bio for the artist and/or the artist’s new album.

Whoever wrote the bio for Grace Potter’s new album “Mother Road” did a great job. The opening sentence sets the scene quite nicely, so let’s just reprint it here:

“Back in summer 2021, Grace Potter took off on a solo cross-country road trip that would soon bring a life-saving reconnection with her most unbridled self. Heading out on Route 66 from her home in Topanga Canyon, the Vermont-born artist spent the coming weeks crashing in roadside motels and taking time each night to deliriously transcribe the song ideas she’d dreamed up behind the wheel, often scrawling those notes onto the backs of postcards and motel notepads.

“After completing two more trips across the U.S. on her own — and partly navigating her way with the help of hand-drawn maps from self-styled historians of Route 66 — Potter flew to Nashville for a series of recording sessions that quickly gave way to her most magnificently unfettered collection of songs to date.”

Don’t you want to know — and hear — more? Well, you can at your favorite streaming service, but I can tell you that “Mother Road” is a punchy, passionate blend of country, rock, pop, folk, soul and blues that may or may not be Potter’s “most magnificently unfettered” album, but it one hell of a roll-down-the-windows road-trip record. Sing along, and loud!

Grace Potter: 6:30 p.m. Monday, $35, Midtown Ballroom, 51 NW Greenwood Ave., Bend, midtownballroom.com.