Play album Buy Loading. Scrobble Stats? What is scrobbling? Artist images 26 more. Formed in , the group Garrett Dutton, better known as G. Love , Jeffrey Clemens on drums, Mark Boyce on keyboards, and Timo Shanko on bass are known for their unique "laid back" blues sound. On the strength of the single " Cold Beverage ", in part due to MTV rotation, the album nearly went gold. After which, trying to capitalize on the success of the album, the group toured… read more.
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From G's mushmouth scat style of sing-rapping he's dubbed "ragmop" to the silky smooth and fluid pre-bop jazz bass lines of Jimmy "Jazz" natch Prescott and the sparsely effective rimshot-laden rhythms of Jeffrey "Houseman" Clemens, G. Love and Special Sauce have pioneered a niche that by now is as familiar as the smell of gym socks to a basketball player.
But when it debuted in , the radio was not saturated with the likes of Everlast, Sugar Ray or Sublime, all of whom have had mainstream success in part by following in G. Love's sonic footsteps as if they were a road map to Shangri-La. In the face of this anemic radio support, it did what any respect-worthy hardworking band would do--toured and toured and toured.
And then it toured. It has paid off, both in the evolution of Special Sauce's music, and in the building of a fan base the grassroots way. Still, what business does a private-school white boy have aping neglected blues artists like Blind Lemon Jefferson for the edification of a largely white, mostly middle-class audience of college kids?
Worse yet, why is it that a significant portion of G. Love and Special Sauce's following consists of that most annoying class of music fan: tape-tradin', patchouli-wearin', Phish-worshippin', Jerry's death-lamentin' hair farmers, whose only distinguishing characteristic is their remarkable vapidity? On paper, it can all seem like blasphemy, a cultural fraud perpetrated on gullible suburban know-nothings at the expense of the real progenitors of all the music from which G.
Love borrows. In some ways, especially earlier in his career, it was valid to say G. Love was merely engaging in a barely concealed form of minstrelsy, especially on the first record where his patois was, charitably speaking, overdone.
But like the Beastie Boys, who early on were derided by black rappers as obnoxious punks who were "stealing the soul" before they demonstrated their chops, G. Love and the Special Sauce, fronted by Garrett Dutton, has seen its material mature after almost 20 years in the business. Love born Oct. He met his Special Sauce in Boston-area bars in What exactly was this special sauce? We tracked down Love via email.
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