G. Love & Special Sauce Philadelphia Mississippi (LP)

(Philadelphonic, Records) 12 tracks, gatefold cover.

The follow-up to 2020's Grammy-nominated album The Juice boasts features from Alvin Youngblood Hart, Christone Kingfish Ingram, Schooly D and Speech.

Nominated for Best Contemporary Blues, G. Love's electrifying new album Philadelphia Mississippi blends old-school blues and folk with new-school hip-hop and funk, uniting both sides of the genre-bending pioneer's eclectic career in a wildly innovative and deeply reverent acoustic pilgrimage into the heart of the Southern states. Produced by Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi All-Stars, this song collection is loose and spontaneous, full of joyous, improvised songs and freewheeling collaborations with a host of special guests, including blues torchbearers like Alvin Youngblood Hart and Christone Kingfish Ingram and rap icons like Schooly D and Speech of Arrested Development.

It would have been easy for G. Love to play it safe after his GRAMMY-nominated 2020 release The Juice, but Philadelphia Mississippi is perhaps his most adventurous production to date, one that throws out all the rules while experimenting with form and function in an ecstatic ode to the power of music that always manages to connect genres and generations.