G. Love 'Oh Yeah' album

Oh Yeah is G. Love’s first record, an early demo made during his days busking on the streets of Boston. Now, 15 years after it was recorded, the album is again seeing the light of day as a digital-only release. The album has been available in all other digital stores since January 23rd.

Before signing to Epic Records for his gold-selling debut G. Love & Special Sauce, G. Love [born Garrett Dutton] hustled this demo on the streets of Philadelphia & Boston. Recorded in '92, “Oh Yeah” contains funky solo acoustic renditions of "Baby's Got Sauce" [aka "Sauce"], "Shootin' Hoops," "Rhyme for the Summertime," and others that were re-recorded for his debut. This digital-only release, not available in any CD store, follows G. Love's star-studded studio album Lemonade [Ben Harper and Blackalicious guest], released in August 2006 on jam-band kinfolk Jack Johnson's Brushfire / Universal label. To date, Lemonade has scanned over half a million copies, including 20K in digital sales.

Oh Yeah TRACKLISTING AND NOTES
1. SAUCE - The original version of "baby’s got sauce… the version I used to play on the streets of Boston … the original hip hop blues
2. WHAT’S GOING ON - This is a sweet romancing song written when I couldn't get a date. Front porch style.
3. WRITING ON THE WALLS - When blues and hip hop city streets meet. A glorification of my graffiti writing days.
4. GIRLS AT THE LAUNDROMAT - Another day dream about meeting the perfect girl at the Laundromat.
5. RUN FOR ME - This is a cool tune about trying to get served as a minor all about finding yourself in a strange town.
6. MOTHER - A dope rap about saving Mother Nature. The chorus was inspired by the Robert Johnson tune "breakin’ down"
7. RHYME FOR THE SUMMERTIME - This is the first rap I wrote. Slide guitar and chicken scratch.
8. LEAVING THE CITY - One of my best blues. A city kid dreaming of the country.
9. THE FAT ONE - Nothing wrong with the fat one.
10. SHOOTIN’ HOOPS - The original version of a G. Love classic. No frills straight streetside.

A PERSONAL NOTE FROM G. LOVE

I want to tell you all about an exciting new G. Love release. In January Philadelphonic Records will be releasing my "first" record, G. Love "Oh Yeah". This record was recorded in 1992 in a number of different studios including Skidmore College and Temple University studios. This record was the first documentation of Hip-Hop Blues and includes the original recordings of "Baby's Got Sauce", "Shooting Hoops" and "Rhyme for the Summertime." I originally pressed up 250 cassette tapes of “Oh Yeah” and sold them on the streets of Boston while I was busking.

I call “Oh Yeah” my first record and 15 years later it finally hits the digital stores. Pretty cool. I still can't figure out exactly how I played all of these songs. It’s as easy to hear the John Hammond and Lightening Hopkins influence as it is to hear the De La Soul. It’s definitely a cool record and is 100 percent acoustic solo foot-stomping-streetside-blues.

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