Right Now!

Newly restored and remastered, the updated artwork contains new liner notes from Bill Dahl. 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!" 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