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This session was not released until five years after it was recorded. Imagine the tapes smoking in their boxes, that's how hot this music is - sorry, but there's really nothing wrong with this blues album. Otis Rush was a great explorer of the blues, a man whose guitar playing was pure blues in every molecule. In his solos on this album, he breaks down the idea of the blues to very simple gestures (for example, a stretched string, but stretched so subtly that even the experienced blues listener will be amazed). As a blues musician, he expands the blues form with his chord progressions as well as the use of horn sections, again using this instrumentation in a wonderfully free way, so that famous painters come to mind as they work parts of their canvas in certain ways to bring more luminosity to the painting.
Blues fans who are tired of the same old song structures, riffs and rhythms will probably be delighted with most of what Rush has produced, and this is among the best of what he has brought to the air. Sometimes what he does to make a song sound completely different from anything you've ever heard in the blues consists of just a little something - a higher chord where you expected a lower one, for example. "Right Place Wrong Time" is an exceptional LP, and the fact that Capitol Records discarded this session after they originally produced it can only be rationally accepted if you put it in context with other decisions that label has made, such as rejecting the Doors because singer Jim Morrison would have "no charisma."
This is a record without circumlocution, the first track gets going like the man you shoot out of a cannon at the end of a circus show, so that you perceive as the climax, but ultimately this is only the beginning. Some of the best tracks are the ones that last longer than five minutes, they give the musicians room to show off their skills. This, of course, means more of Rush's great guitar. On the closing track, he leaves the blues behind completely in favor of a touching cover of "Rainy Night in Georgia" by Tony Joe White.
Otis Rush (voc, g); Doug Killmer, John Kahn (b); Hart McNee (as); John Wilmeth (tp); Ron Stallings (ts); Fred Burton (g); Mark Naftalin (p); Ira Kamin (org); Bob Jones (dr)
Side A
1. Tore Up
2. Right Place, Wrong Time
3. Easy Go
4. Three Times A Fool
5. Rainy Night In Georgia
Side B
1. Natural Ball
2. I Wonder Why
3. Your Turn To Cry
4. Lonely Man
5. Take A Look Behind