G-Love (Gareth Dutton) is the front man for G-Love and Special Sauce, a three piece from Philadelphia. This latest album,
Fixin' To Die, of which the title track can be heard here,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCPH3dPQkIc came about because of G-Love sharing the stage with the Avett Bothers. They discovered they had a shared musical heritage and decided to make an album together, a selection of rearranged traditional songs, a classic cover and some G-Love originals. So, the blurb on his MySpace page reveals, you will find on here not the hop hop blues, a genre he helped define, but a more honest collection of songs which capture the original spirit and sound he'd been looking for. "This is the most inspired I’ve ever felt making a record - let’s just put it that way. I’m still buzzing about it.”
I discovered when I dropped this track into my iTunes library I had 2 other versions of this song, one by Bukka White - the original, and one by Robert Plant. All of them different and all enjoyable. But has G-Love made a less commercial effort with this, as he claims? I'm not sure that is strictly true. It shouldn't detract from the fact that this
is a good version, though it still sounds fairly mainstream to me.
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