Right Now is a greatly expanded reissue of an LP that Barry Brown cut for Jah Screw’s Time imprint in 1984. Brown—along with contemporary singers like Linval Thompson, Rod Taylor, and Barrington Levy—helped define the rough-edged, street-corner singing style that gained prominence during the dancehall era. While classic roots vocalists like Cornell Campbell and Max Romeo favored a sophisticated, soul-influenced approach, Brown and his contemporaries favored a less polished vocal style that made up in impassioned sincerity what it lacked in subtlety. Brown’s recordings with producers like Joseph Hoo Kim, Scientist, and Bunny Lee are among the most indelible of early dancehall efforts. Right Now is a comparatively obscure outing, but it has all the power of Brown’s better-known releases. The propulsive “Mafia"—a grim portrait of the violence-riddled world of Kingston’s street-corner politics—is easily as good as anything else Brown recorded during this period. Greensleeves’ 2012 re-release of Right Now adds a set of cavernous dub versions to supplement the album’s original 11 tracks.