◇ image via WikipediaG. Love & Special Sauce
G. Love & Special Sauce is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Dr. John, 311, Matt Costa, Xavier Rudd and Merry Clayton. Those roots explain a lot about how G. Love & Special Sauce arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Donavon Frankenreiter, The John Butler Trio and Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Citizen Cope, Donavon Frankenreiter and Jack Johnson, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 32 connections around G. Love & Special Sauce, reaching back through Dr. John and forward to Citizen Cope. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
G. Love & Special Sauce is an American rock band from Philadelphia. They are known for their unique, "sloppy", and "laid back" sound that encompasses blues, hip hop, rock, and soul. The band features Garrett Dutton, better known as G. Love; Chuck Treece on drums; and Jim Prescott on bass.
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G. Love & Special Sauce connections
G. Love & Special Sauce grew out of Dr. John, 311, Matt Costa and Xavier Rudd, shares an orbit with Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Donavon Frankenreiter and The John Butler Trio, went on to shape Citizen Cope, Donavon Frankenreiter and Jack Johnson. 32 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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