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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]

Go Go Harlem Baby
Studio album by Flat Duo Jets
Released	1991
Recorded	Easley McCain Recording
Genre	Punkabilly[1]
Label	Sky
Producer	Jim Dickinson

The album was reissued by Third Man Records in 2011.[6]

Production

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][11]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[12]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	[13]
Orlando Sentinel	[14]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[1]

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'."[10] 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."[15]

The Orlando Sentinel thought that "for a rock 'n' roll animal, Romweber has an amazingly pretty voice."[14] The Washington Post opined that "wild-eyed, gravel-voiced singer/songwriter/guitarist Dexter Romweber remains an original, his genius and his preposterousness inextricably linked."[16]

AllMusic wrote that the band's "deliciously dirty and rough brand of rockabilly is unrivaled, and this disc is perhaps their finest."[12]

Track listing

Personnel

• Dexter Romweber - guitar, vocals
• Chris "Crow" Smith - drums

References

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