Finally! The show that Mel and I have been waiting for. G. Love & Special Sauce live! Neither of us have ever seen him and we jumped at the tickets when we saw that he was coming to town. I’ve been a fan for 10+ years, and Mel had no choice but to dig his music since I play it constantly. I really wanted to sneak my Canon point-and-shoot into the show, but it would have been tough. I didn’t bring my phone (w/camera) with me so no camera phone shots either.

Marc Broussard opened up the show. We got there late and only saw the last 3 or 4 songs of his… but, we enjoyed his stuff a lot. We’ve only heard a few of his songs here and there. But, we’ll be checking more of his stuff out for sure. This guy has got soul!

We made our way down to the main floor and waited for the curtains to re-open. He opened with “Can’t Go Back To Jersey” and immediately got the crowd going. I must say that we noticed that the fans farther back with us, and in the back were waaay more into the show than the people up front. The show was full of energy and everyone around us was groovin’.

Here’s a list of songs I remember from the show. I’m sure that I’m missing some, and they aren’t exactly in proper order… so, let’s not call this a set list.

Main set
Can’t Go Back To Jersey
Missing My Baby
Don’t Drop It
Back Of The Bus
Booty Call
This Ain’t Living
Waiting
Dreamin’
Rock And Roll
Let The Music Play

Encore set
Still Hangin’ Around
Rainbow
Beautiful
Blues Music
Lou Reed’s Walk On The Wildside
WAR’s Low Rider (Money Mark joined on keyboards)
Cold Beverage (medley with Snoop Dogg’s Gin And Juice / A Tribe Called Quest’s Can I Kick It)
Astronaut
Instrumental jam with G. Love on harmonica

Highlights of the show for me: The crowd sing-a-long on “Rainbow”… almost made up for Jack Johnson not sitting in. All the covers in the encore set. We both were hoping for Ben Harper to sing on “Let The Music Play”, but only Marc Broussard came out. The song was great live!

After the show, we went back inside to get a t-shirt and a hat. We walked around upstairs a bit and as we passed the bar, Mel said to me “um, don’t you want to go meet him?”. I said “huh, who, what?” and turned around to see Garrett leaning up against the bar… girls hangin all over him. I waited patiently until all the girls finished taking photos with him. He saw that I was hangin out waiting. He was on his way outside but stopped to shake my hand and accept my compliments on the fun show. I thanked him for all of his fun music and the fantastic show. Sure, he’s not going to remember me, but I’ll remember him stopping to say hello.

We left on a high for sure.