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Summer Tour

philadelphonic May 09, 2008

Greetings! I'm out here in LA now getting ready to make the video for Peace, Love and Happiness. The new record Superhero Brother drops June 24th and you know what that means right?!? That's right we will be hitting the road hard all summer.

We are honored to announce Australia's own The John Butler Trio as our very special guests for the summer. We will also be adding another guest in the next few weeks so stay tuned for that. The tour is going coast to coast and will most definitely be coming to a theater near you. Stay tuned to find out how you can get backstage, get a copy of "Superhero Brother" and meet the band. Also we got something special for those of you that purchase your tickets at the presale. Not only will you save money and time by getting your tickets directly online but there are going to be some cool stuff to be had so check it out. The presale will begin on May 6th - OH YEAH!

See you soon!

Thanks a lot- G

July 31, 2008 Thursday	Kansas City	MO
August 01, 2008 Friday	Council Bluffs	IA
August 02, 2008 Saturday	Madison	WI
August 03, 2008 Sunday	Chicago	IL
August 06, 2008 Wednesday	Indianapolis	IN
August 07, 2008 Thursday	Columbus	OH
August 08, 2008 Friday	Detroit	MI
August 09, 2008 Saturday	Seven Springs	PA
August 13, 2008 Wednesday	New York	NY
August 14, 2008 Thursday	Boston	MA
August 15, 2008 Friday	Vienna	VA
August 16, 2008 Saturday	Philadelphia	PA
August 17, 2008 Sunday	Baltimore	MD
August 20, 2008 Wednesday	Myrtle Beach	SC
August 21, 2008 Thursday	Cary	NC
August 22, 2008 Friday	Atlanta	GA
August 23, 2008 Saturday	Pompano Beach	FL
August 24, 2008 Sunday	Saint Augustine	FL
August 26, 2008 Tuesday	Fayetteville	AR
August 28, 2008 Thursday	Flagstaff	AZ
August 29, 2008 Friday	Las Vegas	NV
August 30, 2008 Saturday	Reno	NV
August 31, 2008 Sunday	San Francisco	CA
September 03, 2008 Wednesday	Vancouver	BC
September 05, 2008 Friday	Jacksonville	OR
September 06, 2008 Saturday	Portland	OR
September 07, 2008 Sunday	Seattle	WA
September 11, 2008 Thursday	Salt Lake City	UT
September 12, 2008 Friday	Morrison	CO
September 13, 2008 Saturday	Telluride	CO
September 17, 2008 Wednesday	Los Angeles	CA
September 19, 2008 Friday	Santa Barbara	CA

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G. Love & Special Sauce

Rock / Blues / Hip Hop
Santa Barbara CA, US
http://www.philadelphonic.com

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Label: Brushfire Records
Label Type: indie
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Tart, Tangy, Smooth, and oh so lip-smacking Sweet! Aaah yes, time to praise the almighty summer sippin’ thirst quencher, being served straight up G. Love and Special Sauce style, ice cool and always refreshing. On their second release for Brushfire Records, the Philly boys offer up "Lemonade", a series of soul drenched tracks pouring out their blues infused hip-hop, which people have been trying to label for years. The best advice - dont try to tame it or claim it; its simply their sonic trademark, instantly recognizable and addictively delicious.

"The whole thing about lemonade for me was when I first set out from Philly to make it in the music world I went up to Boston, and I would just sit on the front porch of my place after playing the streets or practicing and make myself a big pitcher of lemonade. It just symbolized old time porch loungin’ for that’s where I did a lot of my shedding and writing. It was so simple and great, I said, if I ever get a record deal I’m going to get Lemonade tattooed on my arm."

It’s there all right, and seven albums, thirteen years, and over a million worldwide units later, "Lemonade" is the most cohesive and rewarding album Garrett Dutton - a.k.a. G. Love (guitar, vocals, harmonica, sweat and tears) has ever delivered. Produced and engineered in the womb of Philadelphonic Studios by Chris DiBeneditto (Electric Mile & Philadelphonic) and faithfully anchored by the Sauce, Jimi "Jazz" Prescott (acoustic bass), and Jeffrey "Thunderhouse" Clemens (drums, percussion), G. pairs up with some of the best players in the game including Ben Harper, Donovan Frankenreiter, Jasper, Dave Hidalgo (Los Lobos), Blackalicious, Marc Broussard, Tristan Prettyman and Jack Johnson on a fourteen song celebration of his iconic career.

The tradition of the hip-hop blues has always been to rip open the heart and bare the soul. Tell the listener what they want to hear and you’ll have a fair weather friend; tell them the way it is and you’ll have true love. Thankfully, the Love is Alive, for G. delivers his loping lilt with bone humming honesty and he’s never sounded so clear. From the swarming infectious grooves of "Ride", "Ain’t That Right", and "Holla!" to the laid down easy of "Breakin Up", "Still Hanging Around", and "Missing My Baby" G. and The Sauce dance with the muses of their mentors, John Hammond, Bob Dylan, Jimmy Reed, De La Soul without ever missing the beat of their own signature time.

Pepper this with the mercury simmer of "Hot Cookin’" with Frankenreiter, the idyllic warmth of "Rainbow" with Johnson, the aching duet of "Beautiful" with Prettyman and the handclapping hallelujah of "Let the Music Play" with Harper and Broussard you’re left with the pure sound of summer ringing in your ear.

As G. says of all the collaborations, "We just reached out to a lot of our friends who just happen to be incredible musicians, and everyone was pretty enthusiastic about coming into the studio with us. So while the record maintains a real G. Love feel, it was a real group effort. Especially on "Let the Music Play", I mean Ben and Marc just came down and demolished this track. We cut the rhythm track but left it wide open. So Bens comes through town and he’s just on fire. He wrote his verse on the spot, whipped up this tight Wurlitzer part and played a crazy slide guitar solo throughout the whole thing. I already had a chorus together, but he added this gospel style by stacking his vocals a bit which caught the vibe. To top it off I wanted to have Broussard sing some harmony on it, but once in the studio he wanted to try out one of the verses. I asked him if he thought he could do it and he says in his real New Orleans gruff voice, you think I came down here to suck, man? Well okay. Watch out, I mean I never appreciated what an incredible vocalist he is until he just went in, put his church on it and crushed it. To have Ben and Marc, who both come at music from such a soulful way, on the same track was simply epic."

Even though G. is an insatiable musical omnivore when it comes to feeding off influences, "Lemonade" is his most stylistically cohesive and focused album yet. Grown out of the somewhat dark tension of "The Electric Mile" (2001) and the ass bumping smorgasbord of "The Hustle" (2004), "Lemonade’s" overall kickback beat begs the listener to blow out the speakers in musical reaffirmation. "Free" perhaps its deepest and most powerful track pulls the continuity string through it all, for its positive examination of the cycle of rebirth through a persons life backed with a "Fixin’ to Die" blues beat perfectly captures the sweat your funk out, soul searchin, dust ridden road warriors G. Love and Special Sauce have come to embody.

"I’m in a real comfortable place musically and in my life; I’m cruisin right now and it feels good. So when I set out to make this record, I wanted to take my sound, base it on the groove and really get into a deeper pocket. Lyrically, I wanted to talk about what I always talk about finding love, making love, losing love, life and lemonade."

Yes indeed, what you hold in your hands is pure, fresh, organic, summer sound. So go ahead, scratch it, sniff it, squeeze it, bite it until its juices slide down your elbows and leave you satisfied.
Members:
G. Love - vox/guitar/harp
Jimi Jazz - bass
Houseman - drums
Mark Boyce - keys
Member Since: 2008-02-26

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