| Go Go Harlem Baby | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Studio album by | |
| Released | 1991 |
| Recorded | Easley McCain Recording |
| Genre | Punkabilly [1] |
| Label | Sky |
| Producer | Jim Dickinson |
Go Go Harlem Baby is an album by the American punkabilly band Flat Duo Jets. [2] [3] It was released via Sky in 1991. [4] [5] The band supported the album with a North American tour. [6]
The album was reissued by Third Man Records in 2011; it was for a time one of Jack White's favorite albums. [7] [8]
Recorded at Easley McCain Recording, the album was produced by Jim Dickinson. [9] [10] The majority of Go Go Harlem Baby was recorded in three days. [11] "You Belong to Me" is a cover of the Duprees' song; "Apple Blossom Time" is a cover of the standard made popular by the Andrews Sisters. [12] [13] "Wild Trip" is a cover of the Ventures instrumental. [14]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [15] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [4] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [16] |
| Orlando Sentinel | [17] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [1] |
| The Tampa Tribune | [18] |
Trouser Press wrote that "the ultra-live sound of the speedballs renders some of them generic, although [Dexter] Romweber continues to excel on the slower cuts, offering an atmospheric reading of the instrumental classic 'Harlem Nocturne'." [12] Spin called Romweber "the Crispin Glover of rock'n'roll singers," writing that he emotes "with a creepy edge that Jerry Lee Lewis himself would be hard-pressed to match." [19]
The Orlando Sentinel thought that "for a rock 'n' roll animal, Romweber has an amazingly pretty voice." [17] The Washington Post opined that "wild-eyed, gravel-voiced singer/songwriter/guitarist Dexter Romweber remains an original, his genius and his preposterousness inextricably linked." [20] The Tampa Tribune said that Romweber's guitar "can screech with icy feedback or sing in a warm rush of echo." [18]
AllMusic wrote that the band's "deliciously dirty and rough brand of rockabilly is unrivaled, and this disc is perhaps their finest." [15]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Flat Duo Jets Anthem" | |
| 2. | "The Dainty Song" | |
| 3. | "Go Go Harlem Baby" | |
| 4. | "You Belong to Me" | |
| 5. | "Frog Went a Courtin'" | |
| 6. | "No Greater Love" | |
| 7. | "I Don't Know" | |
| 8. | "Harlem Nocturne" | |
| 9. | "Wild Trip" | |
| 10. | "Rock House" | |
| 11. | "Stalkin'" | |
| 12. | "Don't Blame Me" | |
| 13. | "Love Has Its Joke Sometimes" | |
| 14. | "TV Mama" | |
| 15. | "Apple Blossom Time" | |
| 16. | "Ask Me How I Live" |
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