{"product_id":"coast-to-coast-motel","title":"Coast To Coast Motel","description":"Amazon.com\n\nModern-day bluesman G. Love, known to more skeptical ears as 23-year-old blue-eyed devil Garrett Dutton, shone briefly as hip-hop's great white hope when he released a debut record that paired blues-based playing with vocals that approximated rap. Though he was initially grouped with acts like Beck and Soul Coughing--pale faces who flirted with hip-hop but stuck to rock esthetics--we know now that young Master Dutton has far less in common with those inventive postmodernists than he does with, say, Jamie Walters, the pretty-boy pop dullard of Beverly Hills 90210 fame.\nCoast to Coast Motel, the singer\/guitarist's second shot with his bass and drums ensemble Special Sauce, does not even grant us the minor pleasures of his debut's \"blues rap\" novelty. This time, Mr. G focuses primarily on the R\u0026amp;B sounds of New Orleans, where the band recorded the album. That G. Love counts John Hammond Jr. an inspiration is telling: What Coast to Coast Motel offers is bratty suburban recreations of Hammond's competent but uninspired blueblood appropriations of classic blues music. New Special Sauce tunes like \"Kiss \u0026amp; Tell\" and \"Bye Bye Baby\" are absolutely fine but inauthentic and unnecessary given the breadth of great blues already available to motivated listeners. And any college-educated kid, like Garrett, who insists on singing with the slurred drawl of elderly sharecroppers needs to be slapped silly. --Roni Sarig\n\nProduct description\n\nG. Love \u0026amp; Special Sauce - Coast To Coast Motel - CD\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B000002B5U\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B000002B5U.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:G. Love \u0026amp; Special Sauce\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Audio cd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41431646634042,"sku":"DBV.B000002B5U.G","price":5.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/B000002B5U-0.jpg?v=1779730467","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/coast-to-coast-motel","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}