Right Now: Atlantic Club Soul & Deep Cuts/ Variou - Right Now: Atlantic Club Soul & Deep Cuts / Various

2014 86-track 3 CD set collection of Atlantic and it's subsidiary Atco (founded in 1955) recordings from the forties, fifties and early sixties; years which saw the evolution of rhythm & blues into soul. The diversity of Atlantic's roster is represented by the presence of early Atlantic hit-makers Stick McGhee and Joe Morris, consummate soul singers Solomon Burke, Ben E. King, Bettye LaVette and Barbara Lewis, a pre-Motown Isley Brothers, New Orleans piano man Professor Longhair, saxophonists Willis "Gator" Jackson and King Curtis, blues guitar pioneer T-Bone Walker, Louisiana rock 'n' roller Dale Hawkins, jazz singer Mel Torme, and the vocal group sound of the Clovers, the Coasters and the Falcons (then including Wilson Pickett and Mack Rice in their ranks). Some of these recordings were acknowledged successes from their initial release; others have acquired popularity among collectors and on the club scene over the intervening decades.