Gett Your Drink On

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Gett Your Drink On
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 15, 1997
Genre Go-go
Length56:44
Label Hoop-Tee
Producer
  • Anthony Harley (exec.)
  • Warren Robinson (exec.)
  • Milton Freeman
Lil Benny & the Masters chronology
Cat In the Hat
(1987)
Gett Your Drink On
(1997)
Live at the Cafe
(2000)

Gett Your Drink On is a studio album originally released on July 15, 1997 by the Washington, D.C.-based go-go band Lil' Benny and the Masters. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "I Never Seen a Man Cry" (Jesse Johnson/Brad Jordan) – 5:13
  2. "Brother to Brother" (Anthony Harley/William "Ju-Ju" House) – 7:23
  3. "Hope" (Anthony Harley/William "Ju-Ju" House) – 2:54
  4. "Hit and Run" – 1:46
  5. "Let Me Show You/The Message" – 7:13
  6. "How You Going to Carry It" – 6:20
  7. "Gett on the Wagon" – 6:48
  8. "Bellow-Meso-Bardo" (Chuck Brown) – 5:06
  9. "Hello" (Chuck Brown) – 3:53
  10. "Gett Your Drink On" (Greg Ellis/Louie Oxley) – 6:54
  11. "Can I Get Down" – 4:37
  12. "Walk" (Anthony Harley/Mark Lawson) – 5:50

Personnel

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References

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  2. "Gett Your Drink On". ARTISTdirect . Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  3. Lornell, Kip; Stephenson, Jr., Charles C. (2001). The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop . Billboard Books. pp.  206, 223. ISBN   0-8230-7727-6.
  4. Lornell, Kip; Stephenson, Jr., Charles C. (2009). The Beat! Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 221–224. ISBN   978-1-60473-241-2.