Lee Fields & The Expressions - Faithfull Man

Back in May last year I had the opportunity to see Lee Fields & The Expressions at South Paw, Brooklyn NYC. The show was mind blowing. I wont go into details but this man's stage presence and voice complemented by The Expressions creating this fresh, new soul sound yet still drawing from the old sound(think what El Michels Affair did with 36 chambers) was nuts live. Motherfucker has them dapper boogie moves and the eye fuck on them ladies down pat too.
Anyways his new album dropped last week. Get a hardcopy or digital HERE.

"Since the late sixties Lee Fields has amassed a prolific catalog and has played and toured with such legends as Kool and the Gang, Sammy Gordon and the Hip-Huggers, O.V Wright, and many more. With a career spanning 43 years, it’s mind-blowing that the music he’s making today with Brooklyn’s Truth & Soul Records is the best of his career. While drawing comparisons to The Moments, The Delfonics, The Stylistics, and—of course—James Brown, Faithful Man is able to create a space of it’s own due to the group’s desire to interpret and further the formulas of good soul music rather then imitate them. Chalk that up to Truth & Soul producers and co-owners Jeff Silverman and Leon Michels. These are the same individuals that co-wrote, produced, and played on Aloe Blacc’s global smash I Need A Dollar, and have provided the back drop for records by Adele, GhostfaceKillah, and Jay-Z to name a few. “The older Fields becomes, the closer he gets to perfecting the sound of soul” said DJ Oliver Wang about Fields in an NPR feature. Faithful Man is the next step towards perfection. A step that will find Lee Fields & The Expressions finally being bestowed the contemporary soul music crown."

I'll leave you with this clip of Lee covering Bobby Hebb’s ‘Sunny’. This all sounds so much better a that little BK sweat box but you know where I'm comin from.


Lee Fields - Sunny from JazzReggae Festival on Vimeo.