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it wasn't so much massive popularity that led to artistic freedom, but
changes in the music business. Several years ago, Love signed to
Brushfire Records, a label founded by singer Jack Johnson. Being on a
small label meant a little more creative elbow room. After two albums
for Brushfire that focused on a bigger production, Love was ready for
something else.
“The last album” — 2008's “Superhero Brother” —
“was hip-hop stewed in some blues and rock ‘n' roll,” he said. “This
time I wanted to take it back to the stuff that made me want to step
into hip-hop, get into music to begin with.”
When Love discovered
the blues, he said he “isolated himself in that. There's so much
romance. It's real and raw. But when I found that other people were
doing the blues, I figured I had to do something different.”
That
something different came from his native environment. Just as the
original bluesmen were shaped by the culture of the Mississippi Delta,
Love was molded by the city of Philadelphia. Growing up in Philly in the
1980s and early '90s, Love was surrounded by hip-hop. One day, in his
back yard, strumming his guitar, a rhythm came out that crossed the
lines between blues and hip-hop.
“I made a melting pot of those two cultures, and that became that G. Love sound,” he said.
Those
looking for that G. Love/rag-mop sound won't find it on “Fixin to Die.”
What they will find, though, is not really reminiscent of those earlier
roots album by Love, which he refers to as “bootlegs.” The album,
produced by Scott and Seth Avett, of the folk-rock group the Avett
Brothers, was made quickly, but carefully.
“Those were projects I
did back in the day when I could do 200 shows a year, get off the road,
spend five days in the studio, and do an album the record label didn't
want me to do in the first place,” Love said of the earlier roots
records. “This one is a complete record. The bootlegs were an outlet.
They were like a demo — if I ever found those reels again, I'd want to
change them.”
It might turn out that “Fixin to Die” represents
not just a chance to release his inner bluesman for a spell, but becomes
the next evolutionary phase in the G. Love continuum. Love said that he
wants his next record to be produced by either Jack White, of the White
Stripes, or the Black Keys — both known to favor gritty, blues-based
sounds.
“Katie Miss” borrows an age-old melody most often associated with the
song “Louis Collins.” The opening song, “Milk and Sugar,” kicks off with
no-doubt-about-it blues guitar riffs, but also uses metaphor to thinly
disguise the salacious thoughts on the singer's mind — a trick that
likely dates to the birth of the blues. “Get Going” is reminiscent of
the twisted blues of “Highway 61 Revisited”-era Bob Dylan, with a touch
of Allman Brothers thrown in.
“Fixin to Die,” which is set for a
Feb. 22 release, “is the kind of record I've been meaning to make for a
lot of years,” Love said. He explained that, after an early fascination
with the Beatles and Bob Dylan, he went into a musical phase that was
filled with the bluesman John Hammond and other blues greats.
In
fact, Love has made records before in the vein of “Fixin to Die.” His
first album, made independently, was the solo, acoustic “Street Side
Blues.” After G. Love & Special Sauce began to establish itself with
their 1994 eponymous debut, Love would occasionally put out underground
releases that were far more roots than rag-mop. “In the King's Court”
was super stripped down; Love describes “G. Love Has Gone Country,”
which prominently featured pedal steel guitar, as his “Johnny Cash/Bob
Dylan country album.”
But the various Sony-affiliated labels that
Love recorded his first handful of albums with wanted to push the
stripped-down Love to the background. “The label would say, ‘Let's make
the big hit record first' — they always want a record that will sell a
lot of copies — ‘and then you can make some blues records,'” Love said.
Love
said it wasn't just the label suppressing his inner bluesman. He had a
hand in it, too. When he'd come up with a song that felt like it had
potential to be a hit, Love would want to dress it up as much as
possible; a modestly blues tune with modest production probably wasn't
going to get much attention from radio programmers.
“When I was
in that songwriting machine, I put a lot of pressure on myself. I was
always struggling to get to that commercial success that would lead to
the artistic freedom,” the 38-year-old Love said from his home in
Boston.
Love has had tastes of commercial success. The debut “G.
Love & Special Sauce” was a hit; the single “Cold Beverage” cracked
into MTV's rotation. The band, whose original lineup featured Jimi
Prescott on stand-up bass and drummer Jeffrey Clemens, became a force on
the concert circuit; following tonight's headlining gig at Belly Up,
the group (now a quartet of Love, Clemens, bassist Timo Shanko and
keyboardist Mark Boyce) heads to Denver to open two shows at the Pepsi
Center for Widespread Panic.
Although the rain switched to snow for a period on Tuesday, by the
end of the day temperatures rose and the rain returned. Wednesday, Dec.
22, the forecast calls for a cold front to combine with the warm air
from the south bringing thundershowers but a lower snow level, down to
5,500 feet. The resorts have received as much as 17 inches of new snow
on the higher slopes, with more expected as the snow levels drop.
Rock
and mudslides caused Highway 18 to close in several areas. The area
between Green Valley Lake and Big Bear Dam is closed indefinitely due to
erosion undermining of the road, according to Teri Kasinga of Caltrans.
An emergency work order is being issued to begin repairs.
Highway
38 is open with chains required on all vehicles except those with
four-wheel-drive and snow tires. Highway 18 from the high desert area
through Lucerne Valley is also open with no chain restrictions at this
time. All motorists are required to carry chains. As snow levels drop,
Caltrans will put chain controls in place. Keep in mind that the weather
and road conditions are in a constant state of flux. Use caution when
traveling to and from the mountain area.
Bear Mountain is open today, but Snow Summit remains closed at
least until Thursday, Dec. 23, weather permitting. There is a 6-12 inch
base of wet pack. Bear Mountain offers a number of features throughout
the park. Dress in water resistant gear for a great time on the slopes.
The
relentless rain is causing flooding in some area of the Valley. Use
caution when navigating the roadways. If you are stuck in water, stay in
your vehicle and call 9-1-1 for help. When G. Love & Special Sauce first emerged, Love, the
singer-guitarist who leads the band, needed to come up with a name for
the trio's style, which blended elements of hip-hop and folk-blues.
He
coined it rag-mop, a name (possibly taken from a 1950 novelty song by
the Ames Brothers) that was not only catchy in itself, but which
captured the flavor — slightly dirty, slightly retro — of the music.
For
his new album, Love has an easier time describing the style: the blues.
Yes, there are elements of folk, country and gospel, but boiled down to
its essence, the album, “Fixin to Die” (which emphatically takes its
name from the Bukka White song of the same name), is the blues in
emotion, language, sound and the structure of the songs.
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