Little Richard - Right Now! (Remastered) (2025) 1973

Исполнитель: Little Richard
Альбом: Right Now! (Remastered)
Жанр: Rock & Roll, Rhythm & Blues
Год: (2025) 1973
Страна: USA
Лейбл: Good Time Records
Формат: FLAC (tracks)
Official DR value: DR10
Разрядность: 24bit / 96kHz Stereo
Размер: 739 MB
Инфо: wiki
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Newly restored and remastered! Right Now! is a studio album by Little Richard, released in 1974. It was released without much publicity on the United Records label. The album features "Chain Chain Chain", more commonly known under the title "Chain of Fools".

"With this reissue, Right Now! can belatedly assume its proper place in the seminal recorded legacy of Little Richard." (Bill Dahl, from his liner notes)

After his incredible run on Specialty Records in the late 1950s, Little Richard released records sporadically throughout the 1960s for a number of established, and not so established, labels. His signing to Warner Bros. in 1970 proved a comeback with three stellar releases for the label: The Rill Thing (1970), The King Of Rock And Roll (1971), and The Second Coming (1972). Those three releases, along with 1986’s Lifetime Friend were expanded and reissued by Omnivore Recordings in 2021. in 1973, he returned with a new single,” In The Name,” on Kent Records. Then, an album appeared on a Kent subsidiary, United Records: Right Now!

Right Now!, its genesis, and recording are relatively mysterious. Per Richard’s autobiography, the set was cut in one night with Robert “Bumps” Blackwell in order to secure funds for an upcoming tour. Other than “In The Name” carrying a recording date of January, 1973, that’s all of the information we have. No songwriters are listed on the artwork, and while “Dock Of The Bay” and “Chains Of Love” looked (and are) familiar, the track “Chain Chain Chain” was in fact the Aretha Franklin classic “Chain Of Fools.” While Richard calls out musicians’ names in the recordings, who they actually are is speculation.

What is known is that the album is a scorcher. Richard’s barrelhouse keyboards set the tracks jumping—running in length from under three to over eight minutes. There are soul ballads (“Don’t You Know I”), stompers (“Geraldine Jones”), and slow blues. Had Richard and Blackwell known that the release would come out as unadorned and poorly distributed as it did, they might have had reservations. But, out it came on a budget label, and was relegated to the cutout bins and never reissued until now. Restored and Remastered, Right Now! returns after 50 years.

Трэклист:

01. In the Name
02. Mississippi
03. Don't You Know
04. Chain, Chain, Chain (Chain of Fools)
05. Gerald Jones
06. (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
07. Chains of Love
08. Hot Nuts

Little Richard, vocals, piano

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