Random Presents will continue its productive summer on Sept. 3 with a Midtown Ballroom concert by G. Love & Special Sauce.

G. Love specializes in blues, funk and quasi-hip-hop music that plays very well from a festival stage. Imagine Jack Johnson if he were a brash Philly kid rather than a laid-back Hawaiian surfer bro and you have some idea of what G. Love has been doing over the past 15+ years. He’ll spend most of his summer supporting Jason Mraz and will stop in Bend before bouncing up to The Gorge to open for the Dave Matthews Band for three nights.

When I think of G. Love, I think of the string of minor hits he had back in the mid-1990s — “Baby’s Got Sauce,” “Cold Beverage,” some song about basketball — and I’d like to show them to you, but Sony BMG doesn’t want you to see them. “Embedding disabled by request.” Harrumph.

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