Electric Mile

Electric Mile
Studio album by G. Love & Special Sauce
Released	April 24, 2001 (2001-04-24)
Studio	Long View Farm Studios (North Brookfield, MA)
Length	51:09
Label	Okeh Epic
Producer	Chris DiBeneditto G. Love & Special Sauce
G. Love & Special Sauce chronology
Philadelphonic (1999) Electric Mile (2001) The Hustle (2004)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	70/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Michigan Daily	B+ [3]

Electric Mile is the fifth studio album by American rock band G. Love & Special Sauce. It was released on April 24, 2001, via Epic Records. Recorded at Long View Farm Studios in North Brookfield, it was produced by the band themselves with Chris DiBeneditto and co-producer Michael Barbiero. The album debuted at number 138 on the Billboard 200 in the United States.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Unified"	Garrett Dutton Richard Arthur Smith	3:07
2.	"Praise Up"	Dutton	3:43
3.	"Night of the Living Dead"	Jeffrey Clemens	4:36
4.	"Parasite"	Dutton Jasper Thomas Jim Prescott	6:17
5.	"Hopeless Case"	Dutton	3:43
6.	"Free at Last"	Dutton Prescott	2:22
7.	"Shy Girl"	Dutton	3:32
8.	"Rain Jam"	Dutton	1:04
9.	"Electric Mile"	Dutton	3:40
10.	"Sara's Song"	Dutton	4:59
11.	"100 Magic Rings"	Dutton	3:52
12.	"Poison"	Dutton	4:19
13.	"Free at Last (Reprise)"	Dutton Prescott	5:55
Total length:			51:09

Personnel

• Garrett "G. Love" Dutton – vocals (tracks: 1–7, 9–13), guitar, harmonica (tracks: 1, 10–12), producer
• Jim Prescott – vocals (tracks: 1–7, 9–13), drums, producer
• Jeffrey Clemens – string bass, producer
• Alma – vocals (tracks: 2–4), backing vocals (track 7)
• Jasper Thomas – vocals (track 4)
• Nancy Falkow – backing vocals (track 7)
• Dave Geller – congas (tracks: 2, 3, 9)
• Jamie Janover – percussion (tracks: 2, 3), hammered dulcimer (track 9)
• Arty – viola (tracks: 3, 5)
• Hoch – cello (tracks: 3, 5)
• John Medeski – organ (tracks: 4, 6, 13), Wurlitzer (tracks: 4, 13), clavenette (track 4), Moog (track 9), Rhodes (track 13)
• Billy Conway – percussion (tracks: 8, 13)
• Little Frankie – lap steel (track 10)
• Chris DiBeneditto – producer, mixing (track 12)
• Michael Barbiero – co-producer, mixing (tracks: 1–11, 13)
• Walt Bass – mixing assistant
• Paul Conway – engineering assistant
• Greg Calbi – mastering
• Sean Murphy – photography
• Thomas Smith – photography

Charts

Chart (2001)	Peak position
US Billboard 200 [4]	138

References

1. "Critic Reviews for The Electric Mile - Metacritic". Metacritic . Retrieved May 20, 2025.
2. Henderson, Alex. "The Electric Mile - G. Love & Special Sauce". AllMusic . Retrieved May 20, 2025.
3. Spindler, Adam (April 9, 2001). "The Electric Mile, G. Love & Special Sauce Epic Records". The Michigan Daily . Retrieved May 20, 2025.
4. "G Love Special Sauce Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved May 20, 2025.

External links

• G. Love & Special Sauce – Electric Mile at Discogs (list of releases)