Any Other Way to Go?

Any Other Way To Go? (also titled as Live at Crystal Skates) is a live album released in 1987 by the Washington, D.C.-based go-go band Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers.[5][6] The album was recorded live at the Crystal Skate in Temple Hills, Maryland. The album consists go-go renditions of classic jazz and swing songs performed with a go-go beat.

Any Other Way To Go?
Live album by Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers
Released	1987
Venue	The Crystal Skate Temple Hills, Maryland
Studio	Sheffield Studio
Genre	Go-go jazz-funk
Length	73:17[1]
Label	Rhythm Attack Productions
Producer	Reo Edwards Stephen Meyner
Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers chronology
Go Go Swing Live (1986) Any Other Way To Go? (1987) Live '87 – D.C. Bumpin' Y'all (1988)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
ARTISTdirect	[3]
musicHound R&B	(4/5)[4]

The album is especially known for go-go rendition of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's hip-hop song "The Message", and the go-go songs "Be Bumpin' Fresh" and "Go-Go Drug Free" (which featured a cameo rap from the former Mayor of the District of Columbia Marion Barry).[5][7]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Don't Have the Go Go Swing)"	Duke Ellington Irving Mills	3:37
2.	"Midnight Sun"	Sonny Burke Lionel Hampton Johnny Mercer	3:25
3.	"Moody's Mood"	Dorothy Fields Jimmy McHugh James Moody	5:07
4.	"Woody Woodpecker"	Louis Jordan Joe Willoughby	4:46
5.	"Here We Go Again"	Chuck Brown	5:14
6.	"Harlem Nocturne"	Earle H. Hagen	5:35
7.	"The Message"	Claude Landry	4:50
8.	"Run Joe"	Louis Jordan Joe Willoughby	8:11
9.	"Stormy Monday"	T-Bone Walker	5:46
10.	"Family Affair"	Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart	7:25
11.	"Do That Stuff"	Chuck Brown	3:51
12.	"Go-Go Drug Free"	Chuck Brown	7:01
13.	"Be Bumpin' Fresh"	Chuck Brown	8:29
Total length:			73:17

Personnel

• Chuck Brown – lead vocals, electric guitar
• John M. Buchannan – keyboards, trombone
• Leroy Fleming – tenor saxophone, background vocals
• Curtis Johnson – keyboards
• Donald Tillery – trumpet, background vocals
• Ricardo D. Wellman – drums
• Rowland Smith – congas, background vocals
• Glenn Ellis – bass guitar, percussions

References

1. "Chuck Brown: Any Other Way to Go". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
2. Hanson, Amy. Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers: Any Other Way To Go? > Review at AllMusic
3. "Chuck Brown Album Releases & Reviews". ARTISTdirect. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
4. Graff, Gary; Freedom du Lac, Josh; McFarlin, Jim (1998). "A-Z Guide to R&B Acts: Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers". In Terrell, Tom (ed.). musicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide (1st ed.). Detroit: Visible Ink Press. p. 78. ISBN 1-57859-026-4.
5. Thompson, Dave (2001). "Part Four: The New School". Funk: Third Ear - The Essential Listening Companion (1st ed.). San Francisco: BackBeat Books. pp. 297–299. ISBN 0-87930-629-7.
6. Lornell, Kip; Stephenson, Jr., Charles C. (2001). The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop. Billboard Books. p. 252. ISBN 0-8230-7727-6.
7. Schaffer, Michaeel (May 16, 2012). "When Marion Barry Rapped with Chuck Brown". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 26 December 2016.

External links

• Any Other Way To Go? at Discogs