THE SECOND COMING
The Second Coming was Little Richard’s third album for Reprise Records, and saw him reunited with Robert “Bumps” Blackwell from his Specialty days, with them co-writing the majority of the album together. However, the album again failed to chart. (More from Wikipedia)
Not long ago, I picked up the above LP, Second Coming that reunited Little Richard with many of the original musicians on the 1950’s classics as well as the man who masterminded those recordings, R. A. ‘Bumps’ Blackwell. I’m not sure how sales were this time, but the recordings are thrilling without being as over-the-top as his original songs. A second LP came out later, along with a 2-CD collection. These records are a reminder of what we lost when Little Richard abandoned rock and roll for a higher calling, and what we gained when he made the return.
(June 2013/1)
