Twenty-one years ago, the 21-year-old Nellie McKay released her debut album Get Away from Me to much critical acclaim. Reviewers from the New York Times to Pitchfork and PopMatters praised its eclectic mix of musical styles from Tin Pan Alley to hip-hop, cabaret jazz to spoken word, blues to Broadway, singer-songwriter to rock, and its unclassifiable singularity.
McKay was compared to everyone from Doris Day to Frank Zappa, Eminem to Green Day, and Tom Waits to Randy Newman. While the album made Billboard‘s Top 200 chart and McKay appeared on network television shows, it was never a big financial success. At the same time, McKay squabbled over creative differences with her record company and was soon dropped by her label.

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