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Yeah Its That Easy [Enhanced]

G. Love and Special Sauce (Artist) | Format: Audio CD
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1. Stepping Stones
2. I-76
3. Lay Down The Law
4. Slipped Away (The Ballad Of Lauretha Vaird)
5. You Shall See
6. Take You There
7. Willow Tree
8. Yeah, It's That Easy
9. Recipe
10. 200 Years
11. Making Amends
12. Pull The Wool
13. When We Meet Again

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Love & Special Sauce released their debut album in 1994, the same year Beck made his major-label debut with a similar blend of folk-blues roots and slacker-rap. Though he has never quite matched Beck's aesthetic or commercial success, Love continues to tinker with the formula in interesting ways and has come up with his best album yet in 1997's Yeah, It's That Easy. Like Beck, Love is at his best when he allows pop pleasures to shine through the montage of archival roots and hip-hop experiments. This album, for example, kicks off with "Stepping Stone," which, for all its blues motifs and street-wise beats, is at its best when it reaches its irresistible, sing-along chorus.

Yeah, It's That Easy is an unusual hip-hop album in that it includes a powerful pro-police, anti-gangster number, but it also takes time to make fun of Larry Bird. The latter insult comes on "I-76," a funny, funky number about Love's boyhood hoops team, the Philadelphia 76ers. Less persuasive are the mumbling, monotonous rap numbers such as the title track, but when Love pulls together hip-hop beats, blues guitar licks, and pop hooks, as he does on "Lay Down the Law," an elegy for a street-life victim, he finally lives up to all the great claims made for him at his debut. --Geoffrey Himes

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Includes One Bonus Track: 'cookin with G Love'.

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4.7 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars This Album is an Essential July 13 2003
By Daniel J. Beck
Format:Audio CD
Listen, we all know that reviews are nothing more than personal opinions, so let me cut right to the chase. I love this album. If I were stranded on the proverbial desert island, this is without a doubt one I'd want with me. It's a great album from beginning to end. It's great for: the car, parties, housework, just relaxing, you get the point. I'm a huge fan of G. and I dig all of his albums, but if I had to pick just one this would be it. Oh yeah... drummers don't get much funkier than the Houseman...
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5.0 out of 5 stars They've got the recipe May 24 2003
By Blackberries
Format:Audio CD
Philly born and bred, G. Love (Garret Dutton) and Special Sauce pour out all their emotion and talent into an enticing amalgam of hip-hop, blues, folk, and funk. The band's talent shines forth the brightest on this cd, their third effort. Here's a brief overview of the tracks:

1. Stepping Stones - 5 stars - The hook "you keep using me just like a stepping stone" will be stuck in your head for weeks.

2. I-76 - 4 1/2 stars - This one is a funky tune about hoops, particularly G's team, the 76ers.

3. Lay Down the Law - 5 stars - The surprisingly simple and beautiful prelude to the bulk of this track is exquisite.

4. Slipped Away - 2 1/2 stars - A dark tune about someone deceased in G's family, possibly his mother. Too dreary for me, doesn't fit well with the rest of the tracks on here.

5. You Shall See - 3 stars - Nothing really special on this one, just an average track.

6. Take You There - 5 stars - Awesome, laid-back summer tune with a sweet cowbell.

7. Willow Tree - 5 stars - Another great song for lounging in the sun, good stuff.

8. Yeah, It's That Easy - 4 stars - Nice piano backed up by G's sweet rhymes.

9. Recipe - 5 stars - Very funky and soulful, great track

10. 200 Years - 3 stars - A little bit dull, not bad though.

11. Making Amends - 3 1/2 stars - Fun and upbeat number.

12. Pull the Wool - 10 stars - Absolutely amazing. This song is one of the most beautiful tracks I've ever heard. 9 minutes and 26 seconds of sheer bliss.

13. When We Meet Again - 4 stars - G's standard acoustic, folky last number.

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5.0 out of 5 stars If you like their grooves, then buy this one April 9 2002
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
The lazy blues and rap/rock& roll that G. Love sells is really smooth and relaxed. Never has he collected a better collection than this one here. In other albums, some tracks would rock and others would be soft, and the rest of them would be kinda groovy, well this one is almost all groove. The lone exception being 'Pull the Wool' which is a ballad, but allowed because it's a good message, it just happens to be too repetitive. My theory as to why this is such a consistent record is that the majority of the songs for this album were written by the members of the band while they were broken up and in other bands. So they channel all of the groovy feeling of all the bands combined on this CD. The other bands even guest on the album giving them a bigger sound. If it's the groove you're looking for, you won't be disappointed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 2 words:Slackn' Groove
I picked this up after a friend told me I should get it since I thought that Philadolphonic was a bit disapointing(with the exception of Numbers, which is a great song). Read more
Published on Nov 20 2001 by eightpointagenda
5.0 out of 5 stars His Best Album!
Buy It...Listen to it....Bottom line...
Published on Jun 10 2001 by SEAN FLANSBAUM
5.0 out of 5 stars This is their best so far
G-Love is the product of a generation passed...

They have a sound all their own.

This CD demonstrates that. Its good if you want something bluesy, rocky, and rappy... Read more

Published on April 13 2001
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this one!!
I heared Yeah it's that easy.. the first time I was chilling in a coffeeshop with my friends and after a couple of numbers I asked the bartender what the name of the CD was. Read more
Published on Nov 4 2000 by bas
1.0 out of 5 stars truly disappointing...
i saw g. love live a while back, and thought that they were okay...however...the cd disappointed me greatly...it was unimaginative, puerile nonsense...let's hope g. Read more
Published on July 27 2000
5.0 out of 5 stars Get This CD, It's That Easy
G. Love & Special Sauce came back with an attack with this CD. This album probably helped draw in a wider variety of listeners. The sound makes you wanna sit back and chill. Read more
Published on Jan 30 2000 by "jahsh_concurz"
4.0 out of 5 stars G. Love Succeeds Where Others Fail
I've been hearing comparisons of G. Love and the Special Sauce to Beck and I'd like to dispute them. Read more
Published on Jan 6 2000 by Eclectic Listener
5.0 out of 5 stars G. Love at his best
All of G. Love's albums are great and hold a place in my heart, but this one is the best, and the one i would reccommend to people just getting into this incredible talent. Read more
Published on Jan 4 2000 by J. Mitchell
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome CD!!
I just bought this cd a few days ago, and I think I've listened to it at least ten times! The best song is I-76, but all the songs are worth listening to. G. Read more
Published on Jan 23 1999
5.0 out of 5 stars g.love deserves more air play...
i have been a g.love & special sauce fan from day one, from his days with the "kings court" and the "philly cartel", he's always known how to lay down the... Read more
Published on Nov 28 1998
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