{"id":2442265,"date":"2019-03-28T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=302550"},"modified":"2019-03-28T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T22:00:00","slug":"two-nights-of-g-love-special-sauce-at-belly-up-aspen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/two-nights-of-g-love-special-sauce-at-belly-up-aspen\/","title":{"rendered":"Two nights of G. Love & Special Sauce at Belly Up Aspen"},"content":{"rendered":"
G. Love & Special Sauce photographed during a a sold-out show at Belly Up in February 2016. The band returns to the club on Friday and Saturday night.<\/strong>
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G. Love and Special Sauce\u2019s<\/a> 25th anniversary tour has been going well enough that it\u2019s extended well into the band\u2019s 26th year and is now making its second stop in Aspen.<\/p>\n

The beloved Philadelphia-based blues and hip-hop trio brings its \u201cSauce Tour\u201d to Belly Up tonight and Saturday. It will be among the last chances for G. Love\u2019s devoted fan-base to see him with the band for a while, however, as the two-show Aspen run is among their final performances before G. (Garrett Dutton) heads out on a summer-long solo tour with Blues Traveler and Moe.<\/p>\n

G. Love and Special Sauce have been regulars in Aspen for nearly its entire quarter-century existence, with early gigs at the old Howling Wolf, then at Jazz Aspen festivals and, over the past 12 years, Belly Up has regularly hosted solo spots from G. Love and sets from the full band.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a great place,\u201d Dutton said during one of those recent stops. \u201cIt feels like home, it\u2019s a great crowd and Belly Up is an intimate room, a great room \u2014 a perfect room for us. People like to party there and we like to party there, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to imagine as the anniversary tour rolls on, but not so long ago G. Love spent eight years without Special Sauce.<\/p>\n

The band that produced the genre-smashing and enduring 1990s hits \u201cCold Beverage,\u201d \u201cBaby\u2019s Got Sauce\u201d and \u201cStepping Stones\u201d split from recording together as Dutton focused on a string of solo discs and tours. They reunited for 2014\u2019s \u201cSugar\u201d and soon after made \u201cLove Saves the Day\u201d to showcase the band\u2019s grittier, harder rocking side of its trademark blues sound and working with guest collaborators on six of the 12 tracks \u2014 highlights include Citizen Cope (on \u201cMuse\u201d), Lucinda Williams (on a cover of Leadbelly\u2019s \u201cNew York City\u201d) and Los Lobos guitarist David Hidalgo (on the roaring title track).<\/p>\n

\u201cOur music is rooted in the Delta blues,\u201d G. Love said during one of the band\u2019s regular stops in Aspen. \u201cAnd if you keep pushing the blues, you\u2019re going to end up on the rock \u2018n\u2019 roll side of town, and I feel like this is our most rocking record.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beginning their career during the recording industry\u2019s boom time and weathering its digital reckoning in the new millennium, G. Love said the band works smarter and cheaper now. And maybe, he suggested, with better results.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the \u201990s, we\u2019d get a budget for like $300,000 and the record company would want you to spend it all,\u201d he recalled. \u201cNow we have a much smaller budget, more like $30,000, and instead of six months we have six days or 10 days.\u201d<\/p>\n

For a record like \u201cLove Saves the Day,\u201d the band still puts in months of rehearsal so they can be efficient in the studio.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly I feel like we make records better this way,\u201d he said. \u201cI wish we\u2019d done it all along because I would be a millionaire with all the money we saved.\u201d<\/p>\n

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G. Love & Special Sauce photographed during a a sold-out show at Belly Up in February 2016. The band returns to the club on Friday and Saturday night.Aspen Times file G. Love and Special Sauce\u2019s 25th anniversary tour has been going well enough that it\u2019s extended well into the band\u2019s 26th year and is now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 21:52:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}