There aren’t too many artists making soul music today who had a release in 1969, back when R&B was first beginning to give the drummer some.
Lee Fields, however, is one such artist—or maybe he’s better labeled a phenomenon. Since the late sixties, the North Carolina native has amassed a prolific catalog of albums.
He has toured and played with such legends as Kool and the Gang, Sammy Gordon and the Hip-Huggers, O.V Wright, Darrell Banks, and Little Royal.
Lee Fields & The Expressions | My World Is Empty Without You
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ar3t_0gYHbE
With a career spanning 43 years, releases on twelve different record labels, and having toured the world over with his raucous-yet-tender voice, it’s mind-blowing that the music he’s making today with Brooklyn’s own Truth & Soul Records is the best of his career.
With a catalogue that ranges from James Brown-style funk to lo-fi blues to contemporary Southern soul to collaborations with French house DJ/producer Martin Solveig, Lee Fields has done it all.
Today, with The Expressions—Truth & Soul’s house band, Lee Fields continues to evolve, enmeshed into the group’s sweeping, string-laden, cinematic soul sound.
Their first full-length together, My World, released in June 2009 on Truth & Soul, was called “one smoking mother of an old-sound soul record” and a “throwback done right” by the media.
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Lee Fields & The Expressions LIVE
Thursday, 22 March 2012 | 20:00 CET
Lido | Cuvrystraße 7 | 10997 Berlin/Kreuzberg
Lee Fields | truthandsoulrecords.com | lido-berlin.de
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