G. Love & Special Sauce will spend 2014 celebrating the 20th Anniversary of their self-titled debut with a brand new album built on the trio’s signature hip-hop blues sound. Sugar, which will be released on April 22nd via Brushfire Records, reunites original members G. Love, upright bassist James “Jimi Jazz” Prescott, and drummer Jeffrey “The Houseman” Clemens for the first time in eight years. The band has also confirmed a 45-date U.S. tour, and will perform their first album,
G. Love & Special Sauce, in it’s entirety during the first set of each show. The 1994 classic album features some favorite fan hits including “Cold Beverage” and “Baby’s Got Sauce.” The tour will include performances at Brooklyn Bowl, House of Blues in Los Angeles, and 2 nights in G. Love’s hometown of Philadelphia. A full tour itinerary is available below.
Recorded mainly at Brushfire Records’ “Solar Powered Plastic Plant” studio in Los Angeles, Sugar captures the unstoppable energy of a band who got their start in Boston bars in the early ’90s and still play up to 150 shows a year. “We wanted to take it back to the old-school vibe of the first record, those rich, warm sounds from when we were rocking small clubs and going on that acoustic feeling,” says Prescott. To deepen that dynamic and push their sound into new directions, G. Love & Special Sauce called in guest musicians including legendary vocalist and current Oscar nominee Merry Clayton (best known for her duet with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stone’s “Gimme Shelter”), Los Lobos guitarist David Hidalgo, Marc Broussard, Eric Krasno, Shamarr Allen, Kristy Lee, and others.
TOUR DATES:
February 5 Cincinnati, OH 20th Century Theatre
February 6 Detroit, MI St. Andrews Hall
February 7 Cleveland, OH House of Blues
February 8 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE
February 9 Buffalo, NY Town Ballroom
February 12 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Bowl
February 13 Uncasville, CT Wolf Den at Mohegan Sun Resort
February 14 Boston, MA House of Blues
February 15 Philadelphia, PA TLA (SOLD OUT)
February 16 Philadelphia, PA TLA
February 19 Norfolk, VA The NorVA
February 20 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
February 21 Raleigh, NC Lincoln Theatre
February 22 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
February 23 Nashville, TN 3rd & Lindsley
February 26 Charleston, SC Music Farm
February 27 Jacksonville Beach, FL Freebird Live
February 28 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room
March 1 St. Petersburg, FL Jannus Live
March 4 Orlando, FL The Social
March 5 Pensacola, FL Vinyl Music Hall
March 6 New Orleans, LA Tipitina’s
March 7 Austin, TX Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheatre
March 21 San Diego, CA House of Blues
March 22 West Hollywood, CA House of Blues
March 23 Fresno, CA Strummer’s
March 26 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
March 27 Petaluma, CA McNears Mystic Theatre
March 28 Reno, NV Grand Sierra Resort & Casino
March 29 Lincoln, CA Thunder Valley Casino
March 30 Phoenix, AZ McDowell Mountain Music Festival
April 3 Grants Pass, OR Rogue Theatre
April 4 Seattle, WA Showbox at the Market
April 5 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
April 6 Vancouver, BC Venue
April 8 Missoula, MT Top Hat Lounge
April 9 Garden City, ID Visual Arts Collective
April 10 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot
April 11 Boulder, CO Boulder Theater
April 12 Boulder, CO Boulder Theater
April 13 Steamboat Springs, CO Steamboat Springs Ski Area
April 16 St. Louis, MO Duck Room at Blueberry Hill
April 17 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
April 18 Chicago, IL Metro
April 19 Milwaukee, WI Potawatomi Casino – Northern Lights Theater
May 18 Portland, OR Tom McCall Waterfront Park
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