Time and Place

Moses came up in 1960s Atlanta, singing and playing guitar on the R&B circuit. After he moved to New York and connected with producer Johnny Brantley, he started cutting singles, mostly covers (“Day Tripper,” for instance). Time and Place is the only full Moses album, and it’s a burner. The backing band is partly his own (called The Disciples) and partly members of the Ohio Players. Moses is a growler and a shouter, three degrees more gutbucket than Otis Redding, whose template he is pretty much copping here. The title track is sort of breakbeat classic, between Moses’ own hopped up Steve Cropper licks and the dumpster-sized back beat. Just raw feelings and clean sounds and dead-center early Seventies soul. More from the unbeatable year of 1971.