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Little Richard - Right Now! (CD)
Little Richard - Right Now! (CD)
Right Now!

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PRODUCT DETAILS
FORMAT: New CD • UPC: 810075113761
GENRE: Rock • RECORD LABEL: Omnivore Recordings
RELEASE DATE: 04/26/24

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Little Richard - Right Now! (CD)

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Little Richard - Right Now! (CD)

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Details: The Architect of Rock and Roll's 1973 release returns on CD/Digital for the first time • Sunflare colored Vinyl available for Record Store Day • Newly restored and remastered, the updated artwork contains new liner notes from Bill Dahl With this reissue, Right Now! Can belatedly assume it's 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!, it's 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-for the first time on CD and Digital, plus a sunflare colored vinyl release for Record Store Day. With updated artwork and a new essay from Bill Dahl, the time for Right Now! #is right now!

TRACK LIST

Tracklist:

  1. In The Name
  2. Mississippi
  3. Don't You Know I
  4. Chain Chain Chain (Chain Of Fools)
  5. Gerald Jones
  6. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
  7. Chains Of Love
  8. Hot Nuts

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