Coast to Coast Motel by G. Love & Special Sauce

Coast to Coast Motel, the second album from Philadelphia's G. Love & Special Sauce, landed on Okeh/Epic on September 19, 1995, and it keeps the band's formula gloriously loose: front-porch blues, hip-hop cadences, a dash of soul and a whole lot of slouch. The band produced it themselves alongside Jim Dickinson and Keith Keller, and Dickinson plays on the record too, as do BroDeeva and the Rebirth Brass Band.

G. Love half-raps, half-drawls over slap-happy grooves, with Jim Prescott's bass bounce holding the whole ramshackle thing together. "Kiss And Tell" is a sly, grinning shuffle, the sound of a street-corner jam that wandered into a studio and forgot to tidy up. It didn't set the charts alight, stalling at 122 on the Billboard 200, but it made 83 in the Netherlands and 22 on the UK's hip-hop and R&B albums chart.

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