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Love Saves the Day kicks off with a title track that lurches like prime Black Keys, but this isn't a sign that G. Love & Special Sauce are scrambling to keep up with the times, nor is it an indication that they're aching for their past. Instead, the band -- which, as on 2014's Sugar, is a reconstituted version of their original lineup featuring guitarist/vocalist G. Love, drummer Jeffrey Clemens, and bassist Jim Prescott, who returned in 2014 after a five-year hiatus -- feel as if they're pulling together all their interests, both past and present, to engage with a perpetual now. For G. Love & Special Sauce, they live in a world where soul-jazz is filtered through hip-hop and co-exists happily with greasy electric blues; a world where rap, R&B, and rock are traditions to be played with, not treated with respectful distance. Appropriately, all the invited guests -- and there are a lot of them -- share this sensibility and all these musicians underscore the group's wide-ranging interests. Roots rock stalwarts David Hidalgo and Lucinda Williams stand alongside the funkier Ozomatli, Money Mark, and DJ Logic, plus there's a feint toward pop via a duet with Citizen Cope. It's aggressively eclectic but it's not showy: it doesn't draw attention to its cornucopia of sounds, it simply slides from one jam to another. If the songs don't necessarily stick, that's fine -- this is all about vibe, the idea of creating a never-ending party where everybody is welcome and, in that regard, G. Love & Special Sauce succeed.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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David Hidalgo, Electric Guitar, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - James Prescott, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist, Bass (Vocal) - Robert Carranza, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Garrett Dutton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - G. Love & Special Sauce, MainArtist - Jeffrey Clemens, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2015 Brushfire Records
David Hidalgo, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - James Prescott, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist, Bass (Vocal) - Robert Carranza, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Garrett Dutton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - G. Love & Special Sauce, MainArtist - Jeffrey Clemens, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2015 Brushfire Records
David Hidalgo, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - James Prescott, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Sam Hollander, ComposerLyricist - Robert Carranza, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Garrett Dutton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - G. Love & Special Sauce, MainArtist - Jeffrey Clemens, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Josh Edmondson, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2015 Brushfire Records
James Prescott, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Mark Hammond, Hammond B3, AssociatedPerformer - Robert Carranza, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Garrett Dutton, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - G. Love & Special Sauce, MainArtist - Jeffrey Clemens, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Brushfire Records
James Prescott, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Lucinda Williams, Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leadbelly, ComposerLyricist - Robert Carranza, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Garrett Dutton, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Zach Gill, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - G. Love & Special Sauce, MainArtist - Jeffrey Clemens, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Brushfire Records
James Prescott, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Mark Hammond, Hammond B3, AssociatedPerformer - Adam Topol, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Robert Carranza, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Garrett Dutton, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - G. Love & Special Sauce, MainArtist - Jeffrey Clemens, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Brushfire Records
James Prescott, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Citizen Cope, FeaturedArtist - Clarence Greenwood, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Money Mark, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Robert Carranza, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Garrett Dutton, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - G. Love & Special Sauce, MainArtist - Jeffrey Clemens, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ulysses Baya, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Asdrubal P. Sierra, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Brushfire Records
James Prescott, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - DJ Logic, FeaturedArtist - Jon Evans, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Robert Carranza, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Garrett Dutton, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - G. Love & Special Sauce, MainArtist - Jeffrey Clemens, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Mark Boyce, Hammond B3, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Brushfire Records
James Prescott, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist, Bass (Vocal) - Ozomatli, FeaturedArtist - Robert Carranza, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Justin Poree, Tambourine, AssociatedPerformer - Raul Pacheco, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Garrett Dutton, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - G. Love & Special Sauce, MainArtist - Jeffrey Clemens, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ulysses Baya, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Asdrubal P. Sierra, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Brushfire Records
James Prescott, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Sam Hollander, ComposerLyricist - Adam Topol, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Robert Carranza, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Garrett Dutton, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - G. Love & Special Sauce, MainArtist - Jeffrey Clemens, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Boyce, Hammond B3, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2015 Brushfire Records
James Prescott, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist, Bass (Vocal) - Jon Evans, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Robert Carranza, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Garrett Dutton, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - G. Love & Special Sauce, MainArtist - Kristy Lee, Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jeffrey Clemens, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2015 Brushfire Records
Robert Carranza, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Garrett Dutton, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - G. Love & Special Sauce, MainArtist
℗ 2015 Brushfire Records
Album review
Love Saves the Day kicks off with a title track that lurches like prime Black Keys, but this isn't a sign that G. Love & Special Sauce are scrambling to keep up with the times, nor is it an indication that they're aching for their past. Instead, the band -- which, as on 2014's Sugar, is a reconstituted version of their original lineup featuring guitarist/vocalist G. Love, drummer Jeffrey Clemens, and bassist Jim Prescott, who returned in 2014 after a five-year hiatus -- feel as if they're pulling together all their interests, both past and present, to engage with a perpetual now. For G. Love & Special Sauce, they live in a world where soul-jazz is filtered through hip-hop and co-exists happily with greasy electric blues; a world where rap, R&B, and rock are traditions to be played with, not treated with respectful distance. Appropriately, all the invited guests -- and there are a lot of them -- share this sensibility and all these musicians underscore the group's wide-ranging interests. Roots rock stalwarts David Hidalgo and Lucinda Williams stand alongside the funkier Ozomatli, Money Mark, and DJ Logic, plus there's a feint toward pop via a duet with Citizen Cope. It's aggressively eclectic but it's not showy: it doesn't draw attention to its cornucopia of sounds, it simply slides from one jam to another. If the songs don't necessarily stick, that's fine -- this is all about vibe, the idea of creating a never-ending party where everybody is welcome and, in that regard, G. Love & Special Sauce succeed.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:41:20
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: G. Love & Special Sauce
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Brushfire Records - Universal
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2015 Brushfire Records ℗ 2015 Brushfire Records
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