In Brief
* 1/2 Etta James, “The Right Time,” Elektra. In terms of tunes, James makes the right choices. Just the thought of this bawdy belter tearing into Al Green’s “Love and Happiness” or Z.Z. Hill’s “Down Home Blues” is enough to make a true blues lover salivate. So how did this record end up so dry and dull? Producer Jerry Wexler fails to coax James into having much fun. The right time? Just marking time is more like it.
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