Live at the Cafe

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Live at the Cafe
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Studio album by
Little Benny
ReleasedSeptember 26, 2000
Genre Go-go
Length71:21
Label
  • Hoop-Tee
  • Liaison
Producer Mark Lawson
Little Benny chronology
Gett Your Drink On
(1997)		Live at the Cafe
(2000)

Live at the Cafe (also titled as Live at the Cafe: Back in the Day) is a 2000 live album by the Washington, D.C.-based musician Little Benny. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Lay It on Down" – 2:55
  2. "What's My Name?" – 3:15
  3. "Ladies Go Bop Bop" – 6:03
  4. "Ten for Ten" – 0:46
  5. "Whoa" – 5:12
  6. "Camay – 6:29
  7. "Take Me Out to the Go Go" – 6:53
  8. "Roll Call" – 4:54
  9. "Benny's Socket" – 0:43
  10. "What You Want Me to Do" – 7:21
  11. "Bojak" – 1:46
  12. "Hit Me With the 1, 2" – 2:19
  13. "Thong Song (Go Go Thongs) – 7:18
  14. "Practice Makes Perfect" – 4:51
  15. "It's So Hard" – 10:36

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Live at the Cafe - Little Benny". AllMusic . Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
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