G. Love

G. Love & Special Sauce – Love Saves The Day (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:26 minutes | 919 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Philadelphonic Records

For his 10th studio album, G. Love invited friends to help him create Love Saves The Day releasing on 10/30. The album features guest artists Lucinda Williams, Citizen Cope, David Hildago of Los Lobos, Ozomatli, DJ Logic, Money Mark, Zach Gill and Adam Topol. Producer Robert Carranza (Jack Johnson, Beastie Boys) recorded the group live to capture the raw electricity of the tracks.

Love Saves The Day features the down and dirty “trashcan blues” sound of G. Love and his long-term Special Sauce rhythm section – upright bassist James “Jimi Jazz” Prescott and drummer Jeffrey “The Houseman” Clemens. Engineer and producer Robert Carranza (Jack Johnson, Beastie Boys, Mars Volta) recorded the group live with few edits to capture the raw and unfiltered electricity of the tracks. “The music,” G. Love enthuses, “jumped off the tape.”

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G. Love – Coming Home For Christmas (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 33:45 minutes | 424 MB | Genre: Pop, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brushfire Records – Universal

Today I’m proud to release my first-ever holiday album, Coming Home For Christmas. This record has ten original Christmas anthems I wrote earlier this year. I holed up in Orleans, Massachusetts for six days in November and wrote one song per day. Within two days, I tracked the entire album alongside my producer Jon Evans at Brickhill Studios with Jon handling upright bass and Mathias Bossi on drums. In my family, we’ve always had a strong tradition of caroling and sharing songs on Christmas. My Uncle Bob and I used to lead the family through all of the traditional carols as well as rock ‘n’ roll hits like ‘Summertime Blues’ and ‘Steamroller Blues’. After my Uncle Bob passed, my brother-in-law Juan and I have continued the tradition. There was one of those Christmases back in the day when I got the flu or something and missed the family gathering, so I was home alone and wrote a couple of Christmas carols. ‘Christmas Blues’ and ‘Christmas Cookies’. It was then that I decided I would like to complete a full album of homegrown Christmas carols. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it. You can grab it HERE, on Brushfire/Republic Records.

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G. Love & Special Sauce – Philadelphia Mississippi (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:52 minutes | 980 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Philadelphonic Records

G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE, funny name, come from Philadelphia. With singer G. LOVE aka Garrett Dutton, Jeffrey Clemens on drums and Jim Prescott, the bassist, it’s all about Philadelphia (or in the nickname Philly), the title of the album, the record company. This is evidence of local patriotism. Since 1992, the three musicians have been active in a constant line-up with interruptions, mixing blues, country and rap and actually quite a lot of other styles. Is that possible? Yes, definitely. Sounds a bit strange at the beginning (well, not just at the beginning), but it makes sense somehow. But, be warned, it is also quite exhausting, because G. LOVE indicates this time to make the song structures more open. That’s right, a little trip on spotify (yes I take my task seriously) and I can testify to that. “Open” is definitely appropriate. “We’d have no idea, what was going to happen, before we started playing, but by the end, we’d have a song.”

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