THE RIGHT NOW - CARRY ME HOME (LP)

The Right Now Carry Me Home on LP

Chicago's The Right Now has soul fans' heads spinning with their 2010 CD release, Carry Me Home. The disc made airplay on Chicago's WXRT, got notices in USA Today, and has fueled non-stop touring nationwide. Along the way the band has performed with kindred spirits Otis Clay, Betty Lavette, Orgone, Nas & Damian Marley, and Mayer Hawthorne. Given the band's devotion to authentic soul music it was inevitable that the road eventually led to Stax Records in Memphis. Legendary Stax engineer Larry Nix (Issac Hayes, Al Green, The Bar-Kays, Alex Chilton) mastered Carry Me Home for vinyl.

Listen to "Ain't Going Back," the first track, and you'll know that composer/arranger Brendan O'Connell and The Right Now make aggressively authentic soul. Lead guitarist Chris Corsale alternates muscle car rhythms with sublime conterpoints to O'Connell's hooks. The horns are fountain pen strikes on fresh paper. O'Connell's organ is an asylum of emotion. These are all platforms for Stefanie Berecz's vocals, a voice that balances restraint and full out leaps from the rooftop. These are songs written the way the greatest soul music has always been written, now mastered the very same way.

The Right Now Carry Me Home Track Listing:

1. Ain't Going Back
2. Nobody
3. You Will Know
4. I Could Really Hold On
5. I'll Get Down
6. Before I Know Your Name
7. Better Way To Live
8. Doing Nothing
9. Carry Me Home