| Go Go Harlem Baby | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Flat Duo Jets |
| Cover: | Go Go Harlem Baby.jpg |
| Released: | 1991 |
| Recorded: | Easley-McCain (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| Genre: | Punkabilly |
| Length: | 39:47 |
| Label: | Sky |
| Producer: | Jim Dickinson |
Go Go Harlem Baby is an album by the American punkabilly band Flat Duo Jets.[1] [2] It was released via Sky in 1991.[3] The band supported the album with a North American tour.[4]
The album was reissued by Third Man Records in 2011; it was for a time one of Jack White's favorite albums.[5] [6]
Recorded at Easley McCain Recording, the album was produced by Jim Dickinson.[7] [8] The majority of Go Go Harlem Baby was recorded in three days.[9] "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.[10] "Wild Trip" is a cover of the Ventures instrumental.[11]
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."[13]
The Orlando Sentinel thought that "for a rock 'n' roll animal, Romweber has an amazingly pretty voice." The Washington Post opined that "wild-eyed, gravel-voiced singer/songwriter/guitarist Dexter Romweber remains an original, his genius and his preposterousness inextricably linked."[14] The Tampa Tribune said that Romweber's guitar "can screech with icy feedback or sing in a warm rush of echo."
AllMusic wrote that the band's "deliciously dirty and rough brand of rockabilly is unrivaled, and this disc is perhaps their finest."