But his output is so formidable he also has to have outlets outside of G. Love & Special Sauce, to give some of the material life. He records acoustic based songs as a solo artist under his given name, and then there is his latest creation — a band called Lottery in which he teams up with former Bad Brains/The Goats drummer, Chuck Trese. It's a simple, stripped down format of guitar and drums. That's it. But, he says it won't in anyway interfere with G. Love & Special Sauce who is currently on tour with 311, and doing one off shows on there own along the way.

"I'll always be doing Special Sauce. I'm really prolific. I write a lot of songs. I also have such a broad range of stuff that I listen to that a lot of the time I write in a lot of different styles as well. So, sometimes, maybe, I have a tendency to put that stuff out with Special Sauce. I mean, we can play anything. But, Lottery is a lot more straight up rock and roll stuff and Hip Hop, whereas, Special Sauce is a lot of Hip Hop, and more of a Roots type of thing."

Yes, G. Love & Special Sauce is Hip-Hop and Roots. But, to be more specific, the band's music is a sonic collage of Blues, Folk, lush loops and samples, breezy Reggae, simmering jazz riffs, and pulsating funk. And they were successfully experimenting with this cross-genre mishmash long before the likes of Jack Johnson's brushfire fairytale ever started.

In fact, it was G. Love & Special Sauce that helped open the door for Johnson's career.

"I did one of Jack's songs on Philadelphonic called, 'Rodeo Clowns,'" explains Dutton. "He was on the track with me. That was the thing that got him out there, and gave him his start. His first album and his second album have done very well. The first one has sold over Platinum, and the new one will go Platinum by the end of the year."

And Johnson may be repaying the favor soon. After the release of the release of Electric Mile in 2001, G. Love & Special Sauce was dropped from their label, Epic/Okey Records. Dutton says it was time for the band to leave the label, but the split stung just the same. Enter Johnson to the rescue.

"It's a little early to confirm, but it's a good chance we'll be signing with Universal Records under Jack Johnson's new label," says Dutton. Johnson owns a boutique label named, Moonshine Conspiracy Records, and, if the deal goes through, the band will begin recording their new album this fall.

Dutton says the new material will head into a different direction than that of their previous albums. "There's a song called, 'Booty Call,' which is a fun song," he points out. "This album will have more rapping this time than there will be singing. I'm sure Jack (Johnson) will be on it. I want to have some female vocalists, but I don't know who yet. If we go Universal, I would like to maybe have India Arie. I don't know if that's a possibility or not. All that will have to be worked out later."

The new material is also being informed by a major event that happened in Dutton's life recently. When the topic arises his voice immediately tightens, taking on a tone that is at once angry, strafed, and deeply bruised.

"The new album will have a lot of songs about my (ex)-girlfriend. This song, 'Chicago,' is about how I busted her cheating on me when she went on a trip with her friends to Chicago. Just stuff like that. It's only been about two months ago. We were together for six years. I have so much material. I have enough material about that for two records. But I'll but the best of that material on the album."

But for fans that can't hold out until next year to sate their G. Love jones, the band is slated to release a five-song teaser EP due out soon.

"We did one session over the Christmas holidays," says Dutton. "A couple of the songs from those sessions are coming out on this EP that will be in Surfer magazine next month. It's the Redsand EP called, "Kickin' Back." Redsand Clothing sponsored it, and we did five songs for it."

The fact that the EP will come wrapped in an issue of Surfer magazine is a bonus for Dutton.

"I'm a surfer," he says. "I've been surfing as long as I've been playing guitar. I spent my summers on the Jersey Shore." And, at the moment he looks to be set to catch yet another wave of good fortune.