Coast to Coast Motel

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Coast to Coast Motel
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 19, 1995
Genre Alternative hip hop
Label Epic B000002B5U
Producer Jim Dickinson [1]
G. Love & Special Sauce chronology
G. Love and Special Sauce
(1994)
Coast to Coast Motel
(1995)
Yeah, It's That Easy
(1997)
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Coast to Coast Motel is the second album by G. Love & Special Sauce, released in 1995. [6]

Contents

Critical reception

The Dallas Observer called Coast to Coast Motel "almost completely stripped of the hip-hop that so pleasantly tempered the straightforward blues of the first album." [6] Trouser Press wrote that the group "establishes an easy mastery of understated rhythm and harmonic economy." [1] SF Weekly called it "steeped in the feel-good blues vibe of the G. Love live experience." [7]

Track listing

All songs by G. Love, except as noted

  1. "Sweet Sugar Mama" (G. Love, J. Clemens, J. Prescott) – 4:05
  2. "Leaving the City" – 3:40
  3. "Nancy" (G. Love, J. Clemens, J. Prescott) – 3:21
  4. "Kiss and Tell" – 3:14
  5. "Chains #3" (G. Love, J. Clemens, J. Prescott) – 2:58
  6. "Sometimes" – 4:23
  7. "Everybody" – 3:40
  8. "Soda Pop" (G. Love, J. Clemens) – 3:49
  9. "Bye Bye Baby" – 4:39
  10. "Tomorrow Night" – 4:55
  11. "Small Fish" (G. Love, J. Clemens, J. Prescott) – 5:21
  12. "Coming Home" – 4:35

Personnel

Technical

Coast to Coast Motel is also an actual motel in Hinton, West Virginia, where the New and Greenbrier Rivers meet.

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