Go Go Harlem Baby
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| Go Go Harlem Baby | |
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| Studio album by | |
| Released | 1991 |
| Recorded | Easley-McCain (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| Genre | Punkabilly[1] |
| Length | 39:47 |
| 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]
Critical reception
| Review scores | |
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| 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]
