★★★★★
The cover of G. Love & Special Sauce's eponymous major label debut album showed the three members of the band sitting at the counter of a diner. Garrett Dutton prepared to blow a loose straw wrapper towards the camera. 20 years on, Dutton, bassist Jimi Prescott and drummer Jeffrey Clemens have regrouped to record Sugar. The video for the song "Nothing Else Quite Like Home" and footage of the three members pow-wowing over the good old days are both shot from inside a diner. Have G...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-04-23
★★★★★
Combining their branded hip-hop blues sound and a raw live recording process, the original members of G. Love & Special Sauce returned to the studio for the first time in almost a decade to make their newest album, Sugar . Vocalist/guitarist/harmonica player Garrett Dutton, upright bassist James "Jimi Jazz" Prescott and drummer Jeffrey "The Houseman" Clemens are back with grit and swagger, and they get some help from guest musicians like Los Lobos guitarist David Hidalgo (on three racks),...
- www.relix.com
2014-04-21
★★★★★
Snobs may hate on G. Love and Special Sauce, but over a 15-year career, Garrett Dutton and Jimi Prescott haven't needed any smarmy validation to keep on keepin' on. True, since signing to Brushfire, G...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
G. Love and Special Sauce come of age with Yeah, It's That Easy. As good as their first two albums were in their respective grooves, neither had as much personality as Easy, and neither had as much potential to appeal to a wide variety of audiences. The young Philly guitarist's third album with longtime rhythm section Special Sauce is his most disparate and yet most complete effort to date...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
Sixteen years and ten albums old, Philadelphia's G. Love & Special Sauce are festival mainstays over in the US, winning fans amongst crowds who like their music technically proficient, heavy in 'good vibes', and pleasant to listen to while under the influence of a marijuana cigarette...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2009-06-12
★★★★★
G. Love's blend of junkyard blues and hip-hop swagger made a lot more sense in alterna-riffic 1994, and now the challenge is to make the songs stick as his approach begins to sound more and more like shtick. The Hustle is a near miss because it's as annoyingly unfocused as it is tunefully sincere.
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
The "Love" in G. Love takes on a new meaning on Philadelphonic. This isn't just the funky-groovy love of his past three albums -- the love of old-school rhymes and blues riffs and rock shout-outs that this Philly kid has been touting since 1994. No, this is a special love -- a joyful love -- a Christian love. "Praise God," G. Love mumbles at the start of "Numbers," a slow-jamming ode to the book in the Bible. "Amazing" isn't a cover of the Aerosmith song -- it's how G...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
G. Love has always had his hands in the cookie jar of black culture. Yet he and his band Special Sauce have always done their plundering with taste, style and a deep affinity for the holy groove. So what are the boys "feelin'" these days? Soul, blues, reggae, hip-hop and a little country -- same as always. Electric Mile grooves along like one big outdoor party, where everyone is meant to have a funky good time...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
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