Yeah, It’s That Easy by G. Love & Special Sauce

Yeah, It's That Easy was G. Love & Special Sauce's third album, a 1997 release on Epic that picked up where Coast to Coast Motel left off. Garrett Dutton, the G. Love up front, still stirs blues, hip-hop, rock and soul into the loose, sloppy, laid-back groove that made the Philadelphia trio's name, with Jim Prescott on bass keeping the bottom easy, and Dr. John dropped by to lend a hand.

"Stepping Stones" caught a modest ride on modern rock radio. "I-76" is a goofball ode to Dutton's hometown, which Entertainment Weekly heard as closer to Ray Stevens than Ray Charles. Critics split on the rest: Trouser Press heard promise in the snapping soul groove of "Lay Down the Law" and the jazz-tinged hip-hop of the title cut, then complained that too much of it dissolved into jam-band noodling, while The Washington Post found Dutton sharpest when he let the pop hooks through. Philadelphonic came next.

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