Artist · chart history
G. Love & Special Sauce
Band Philadelphia United States Formed 1992
G. Love & Special Sauce formed in 1992 in Philadelphia, United States. G. Love & Special Sauce has 60 chart appearances on 50 radio countdowns from 25 stations on RockLists, spanning 1994–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Rodeo Clowns”, which appears on 15 lists with a best position of #4. The station that charted G. Love & Special Sauce most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 22 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2008.
G. Love & Special Sauce came out of Philadelphia in the early '90s with a sound that shouldn't have worked and did: blues, hip-hop, rock and soul stirred into one loose-limbed, laid-back drawl, all of it played sloppy on purpose. Garrett Dutton, better known as G. Love, leads the way, with Jim Prescott on bass.
The 1994 debut, G. Love and Special Sauce, set out the stall with "Cold Beverage", "Blues Music" and "Baby's Got Sauce", a lazy summer afternoon of a record, and Coast to Coast Motel followed a year later with "Kiss and Tell". By Yeah, It's That Easy in 1997 the grooves were tighter, with "Stepping Stones" and "I-76" leading the way. Philadelphonic, in 1999, wore its hometown in its title and brought "Rodeo Clowns" and "Dreamin'".
They kept the sauce simmering long after the '90s, with Love Saves the Day in 2015 and "Muse" proving the laid-back formula still had some kick in it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by G. Love & Special Sauce on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rodeo Clowns | 15 | #4 | – | 1999 | |
| 2 | Stepping Stones | 15 | #94 | – | 1997 | |
| 3 | Peace, Love & Happiness | 5 | #34 | – | 2008 | |
| 4 | Cold Beverage | 7 | #43 | – | – | |
| 5 | I-76 | 1 | #89 | – | – | |
| 6 | Baby's Got Sauce | 3 | #397 | – | – | |
| 7 | Unified | 2 | #71 | – | 2001 | |
| 8 | Free At Last | 1 | #76 | – | 2001 | |
| 9 | Nothing Else Quite Like Home | 1 | #67 | – | 2014 | |
| 10 | Astronaut | 1 | #127 | – | 2004 | |
| 11 | Saturday Night | 1 | #68 | – | 2014 | |
| 12 | Kiss And Tell | 1 | #78 | – | 1995 | |
| 13 | Muse | 2 | #85 | – | 2015 | |
| 14 | Nothing Quite Like Home | 1 | #80 | – | 2014 | |
| 15 | Blues Music | 2 | #85 | – | 1994 | |
| 16 | Dreamin' | 1 | #78 | – | 2000 | |
| 17 | Soft and Sweet | 1 | #94 | – | 2009 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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