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Track Listing
1. Astronaut
2. Don't Drop It
3. Love
4. Booty Call
5. Give It to You
6. Hustle, The
7. Front Porch Lounger
8. Loving Me
9. Waiting
10. Fishing Song
11. Back of the Bus
12. Two Birds - (French)
13. Stone Me
14. Sunshine
Album Notes
Personnel include: G. Love (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Jeffrey "Houseman" Clemens (vocals, drums); Money Mark (keyboards); Jimi "Jazz" Prescott (double bass); Chuck Treece, Jack Johnson, Jason Yates, Kool G. Murder, Pete Kuzma.
Recording information: 2004.
On THE HUSTLE, troubadour G. Love delivers more of his Bob Dylan/Curtis Mayfield/Beastie Boys amalgam. Although he's dropped the Special Sauce (the moniker for his backing band on previous releases) in name, bassist Jimi Prescott and drummer Jeffery Clemens (who comprised that combo) appear on THE HUSTLE, adding their loose, jazzy groove to G. Love's singer/songwriter antics. Love's wailing harmonica and chunky blues/funk guitar chords flesh out songs that incorporate elements of folk, classic R&B, and rap.
Though not a quantum leap forward, THE HUSTLE makes good on the appealing hybrid pioneered on Love's self-titled 1994 debut and developed on subsequent albums. As on those records, what most impresses about THE HUSTLE is G. Love's ability to move fluidly between genres. There's '60s garage pop ("Love"), country-folk picking ("Loving Me"), old-school reggae ("Give It to You"), bossa nova groove ("Two Birds"), and breezy, laid-back jams that evoke a summer afternoon ("Front Porch Lounger"), all unified by G. Love's literate rhymes and cheeky, street-wise style.
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