How do you make special sauce? Well first you get a big pot, drop in a hefty serving of blues, a handful of rock, a splash of hip hop, a pinch if folk and a dash of soul, then get a guy named G. Love to mix it up with some spices and Bam! You got Special Sauce ready to serve with any listening experience. Even without listening to the song “Blues Music”; an ode to the great soul and blues players of the past you can tell that G. Love and his backing band Special Sauce have definitely done their homework. Their vintage all-American sound harkens back to the days when recordings were still raw and sounded beautiful unpolished. But unlike all the other newer nostalgic blues bands out there, G. Love adds refreshing new twist with many of the songs containing soulful hip hop stylized rhyme patterns for the verses. His voice is also unique as well, a kind of laid-back, bluesy sound which slurs across the tracks. Definitely check out the songs “Eyes Have Miles”, “Baby’s Got Sauce”, and “This Ain’t Living”. I first was introduced to this album by a friend during the middle of a long, hot summer and it instantly became the soundtrack for the summer. If you are trying to mellow out or just get in the groove, pop in G. Love and Special Sauce’s self titled debut album and you won’t be disappointed.
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