Lee Moses was an accomplished sideman in Atlanta, and yet his solo debut from 1971, a mix of growling Southern soul and slow funk, was somehow released and ignored at the time. This Light in the Attic reissue will rectify that. Moses, who died in 1997 at the age of 56, obviously thought he was about to hit the big time—the theme of which is the thrust of “Got That Will.” And, having worked with a young Jimi Hendrix and Gladys Knight, Moses had reason to believe that he was headed to stardom. He had a voice that could lurk in warm and low regions, or leap up to falsetto heights or feverish howls. With a sense of poise and restrained pacing, he offers one of the most emotional and lucid readings of the oft-covered “Hey Joe.” Infidelity and illicit affairs are themes on many of these tracks, with the remarkable “Free at Last” taking what sounds like a twist on a snippet of the famous MLK speech and turning it into an anthem of romantic liberty. Fans of Percy Sledge and Otis Redding will want to absorb Moses’ smoldering, yet sensitive, soul. In addition to his energetic delivery, horns, lush backing vocals and warm vibraphone give Time and Place a depth—further cementing Atlanta’s reputation as another epicenter of African-American popular music, separate and distinct from Detroit, Memphis and New York.