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In anticipation of G. Love & Special Sauce’s show at Music Farm, music editor Stanfield Gray catches up with frontman Garrett Dutton III.
SG: Where do you buy your hats?
G. Love: I don’t—I wait for people to throw things on stage, then wash and wear! On a more serious note, the hat I wear most is the custom G. Love Fedora available at www.adventurehat.com or
www.philadelphonic.com.
Malaria No More receives 100 percent of the profits from these hats.
SG: Does the Charleston crowd always show you the love when you pass through town?
G. Love: Big time! Charleston’s been giving us the vibe since ’94, a vibe thick as soup, hot and sweaty, with plenty of crazy nights. I wrote “Stepping Stones” about a girl I dated from there. We were almost arrested for skinny dipping at Folly Beach.
SG: Do you sense a different vibe from Southern audiences in particular?
G. Love: I feel they really throw down. And that makes us throwing down all the more feisty.
SG: I heard you visited Charleston Fashion Week?
G. Love: We rolled through last year. I’m friends with a girl who was in the show, and I met Wayne Newton (who my dad worked for briefly) backstage.
SG: What makes a rock band fashionable?
G. Love: Well, I’ve always tried to dress sharp onstage like the great bluesmen who inspired me.
SG: Charleston’s known for its fine fare and, particularly, special sauces. Do you and the Special Sauce members have a favorite local dining spot?
G. Love: I love seafood and Southern, soul, hot cookin’, so C-town’s where it is at. There are some amazing restaurants close to the Farm. I can’t remember the names, but I always eat well there.
SG: The South is full of musicians with a distinctive groove. Do you have a connection to any artists from our neck of the woods?
G. Love: We are PHamily with your boys The Movement. I collaborated with them on the track “Another Man’s Shoes” on their record Set Sail.
Music Farm
32 Ann St.
Friday, 7:30pm. $25; $20 advance.
(843)722-8904
