G. Love & Special Sauce - Electric Mile (2001)

G. Love & Special Sauce is an American band from Philadelphia. 

They are known for their unique, "sloppy", and "laid back" blues sound that encompasses classic R&B. 

The band features Garrett Dutton, better known as G. Love, Jeffrey Clemens on drums, and Jim Prescott on bass.

Electric Mile (2001) is the fifth album by G. Love & Special Sauce, released in 2001. 

Like G. Love & Special Sauce's previous albums, The Electric Mile isn't easy to categorize. Is it alternative rock, psychedelic rock, retro-soul, funk, or hip-hop? Actually, this diverse, unpredictable album is a combination of those things -- and the group also shows its appreciation of reggae, blues, and folk. 

True to form, vocalist G. Love and his colleagues keep things unpredictable; you never know from one song to the next if they will tend to favor retro-soul ("Night of the Living Dead"), hip-hop ("Parasite," "Electric Mile"), folk-rock ("Sara's Song"), psychedelic blues-rock ("Poison"), or reggae ("Unified"). 

And the impressive thing is that G. Love can go in so many different directions and never fail to sound distinctive, which is something he has in common with Prince and David Bowie. But while The Electric Mile (which is G. Love's fifth album) has more plusses than minuses, it isn't perfect. A few of the tunes sound unfocused, and not everything that G. Love & Special Sauce try is successful -- occasionally, a song will miss its mark. But more often than not, the trio's risk-taking pays off on this generally rewarding, if imperfect, album.

Track listing

1. "Unified" (G. Love, RAS) – 3:07
2. "Praise Up" – 3:43
3. "Night of the Living Dead"  (Jeff Clemens) – 4:36
4. "Parasite"  (G. Love, Jimmy Prescott, Jasper Thomas) – 6:17
5. "Hopeless Case" – 3:43
6. "Free at Last"  (G. Love, Prescott) – 2:22
7. "Shy Girl" – 3:32
8. "Rain Jam" – 1:04
9. "Electric Mile" – 3:40
10. "Sara's Song" – 4:59
11. "100 Magic Rings" – 3:52
12. "Poison" – 4:19
13. "Free at Last (Reprise)"  (G. Love, Prescott) – 5:55

All tracks by G. Love except where noted.

Personnel

• Garrett Dutton – guitar, vocals, harmonica
• Jeffrey "Houseman" Clemens – percussion, drums, backing vocals
• Jimi "Jazz" Prescott – string bass
• Alma – vocals
• Arty – viola
• Hoch – Cello
• Dave Geller – Congas
• Jamie Janover – percussion, dulcimer
• John Medeski – organ, keyboards, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, clavenette
• Jasper Thomas – vocals
• Billy Conway – percussion
• Nancy Falkow – backing vocals
• Little Frankie – lap steel

Technical

• Michael Barbiero – producer, mixing, assistant producer
• Greg Calbi – mastering
• Chris DiBeneditto – producer, mixing
• Sean Murphy – photography
• Thomas Smith – photography
• Special Sauce – producer

Notes

Release Date: April 24, 2001 

Recording Location: Inore Studios / Longview Farms Studios 

Genre: Indie Rock

Styles: Alternative hip hop 

Duration: 51:09 

Label - Brushfire, 550, Okeh