| The Get-Go | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Paul Cebar |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | 1997 |
| Studio: | The Junkyard, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Genre: | R&B, soul |
| Label: | Don't[1] |
| Producer: | Jeff Hamilton, Paul Cebar, the Milwaukeeans |
| Prev Title: | I Can't Dance for You EP |
| Prev Year: | 1996 |
| Next Title: | Suchamuch |
| Next Year: | 2001 |
The Get-Go is an album by the American musician Paul Cebar, released in 1997.[2] [3] Although not credited on the album cover, Cebar was backed by his band, the Milwaukeeans.[4] The first single was "She Found a Fool".[5] It was a hit on adult album alternative radio.[6]
The album was produced by Jeff Hamilton, Cebar, and the Milwaukeeans. It was recorded at The Junkyard, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The studio was located next to a junkyard; the musicians took some auto parts for added percussion.[7] A musicologist, Cebar incorporated many different musical styles in to the album's sound; Cebar considered it to be dance music.[8]
The Washington Post thought that, "for all the obvious delight [Cebar] takes in celebrating older pop traditions, he never cheapens the music with false emotion."[9] The Orlando Sentinel called "She Found a Fool" "a classic horn-fueled, Memphis-style soul tune, with glistening guitar lines that show an African pop influence." The Philadelphia Daily News labeled Cebar "Southside Johnny with more finesse, or a male equivalent of Bonnie Raitt."
Billboard stated that The Get-Go "explores an almost bewildering variety of styles: Motown soul, Memphis RB, gutbucket blues, New Orleans funk, Jamaican reggae, even Brazilian samba."[4] The Star Tribune concluded that "the low-key, atypical tunes—the love-lorn reggae song 'Trying', the Delta-flavored blues groove 'Keep You' or the oddly romantic cantina ballad 'Spacelab Girls from Huntsville'—cut the deepest."[10] The Daily Herald opined that the album's "encyclopedic range of soul burners, Cajun numbers, R&B stomps and reggae is breathtaking."[11] The Dallas Observer listed The Get-Go as one of the best "obscure" albums of 1997.[12]
AllMusic wrote: "Dabbling in flavors of brassy R&B, calypso, reggae, ragtime and blue-eyed soul, Cebar delivers an album filled with winning original tunes."