The first G. Love & Special Sauce single, "Cold Beverage" is an ode to his favorite drinks, which include lemonade, iced tea, Sprite, Kool Aid and strawberry daiquiris. G. Love (Garrett Dutton) got the idea for the song when he was at an auto repair shop getting his brakes worked on. He spotted a vending machine offering "cold beverages," and thought, I like cold beverages. He started jotting down lyrics on the magazine he was reading, thinking about the different forms of drinking.
Musically, this song is based on a Robert Johnson-style blues riff G. Love came up with. He worked out the song with his bandmates, bass player Jimi "Jazz" Prescott drummer Jeffrey "The Houseman" Clemens. It came together quickly and they were happy with the song, but they had no idea it would go over so well until they started playing it live and crowds would go crazy. "It's poetry," G. Love told Artist Waves.?The lyrics, the three instruments and the syncopation are perfect. Live, the song is great. I've tried to figure out what parts of that song work, and why it resonates, and then attempt writing something with a similar sense of composition. But, I can't do it. It's one of a kind, man."
The song got a gritty, black-and-white video that got some airplay on MTV. The band stuck to a similar style on future videos, which were never too slick.
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