“Costa Rica or Hawaii or the Jersey Shore. Anytime I was on vacation and ended up in certain places like Nantucket or Dewey Beach, I’d book a little solo gig to pay for the trip,” said Garrett Dutton this week. He’sbetter known as blues musician G. Love.

“So I had built a pretty good little string of venues up and down the East Coast when I was off the road and not supposed to be playing.