Artist.......: Lee Fields And The Expressions
Album........: Live de la Semaine
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Soul
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2010-03-10
Str.date.....: 2010-03-05
Quality......: 162kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.myspace.com/leefields
track title time
1. Stéphane Saunier - Intro 1:30
2. Lee Fields And The Expressions - Ohio Players 3:45
3. Lee Fields And The Expressions - Love Comes 3:02
And Goes
4. Lee Fields And The Expressions - Money Is 3:46
King
5. Lee Fields And The Expressions - Let's Talk 3:32
It Over
6. Lee Fields And The Expressions - Ladies 3:45
7. Lee Fields And The Expressions - Honey Dove 4:33
8. Lee Fields And The Expressions - My World 3:16
9. Lee Fields And The Expressions - Do You Love 3:15
Me (Like You Say You Do)
10. Stéphane Saunier - Ending 0:38
Runtime 31:02
Size 36.12
Release Notes:
Lee Fields initially made his name among die-hard funk
fans with a series of hard-hitting singles recorded for
various small labels during the '70s. Everything about
Fields -- his look, his vocals, the grooves on his records
-- was so indebted to James Brown that he earned the
nickname "Little J.B." Fields never hit it big, but his
rough-and-tumble singles went on to become popular
collectors' items. After a lengthy hiatus, Fields returned
in the '90s as a soul-blues belter playing to female-heavy
audiences on the Southern circuit. Thanks to
sample-obsessed hip-hoppers and British rare-groove
aficionados, interest in obscure vintage funk reached a
peak in the late '90s, and Fields was fortunate enough to
have remained active when new recordings in the style
became a viable proposition. Energized by his return to
raw, heavy, James Brown-style funk, Fields emerged as the
leading light of the so-called deep funk movement with a
series of recordings that often equaled, and sometimes
outdid, his early work.
Fields released his first single on the Bedford label in
1969, "Bewildered" b/w "Tell Her I Love Her." After the
1973 one-off "Gonna Make Love" on London, Fields caught on
at Norfolk Sound; 1973 also saw the release of one of his
most enduringly popular 45s, "Let's Talk It Over" b/w
"She's a Love Maker" (though it wasn't a big seller at the
time). Another prized item was 1975's "Everybody Gonna
Give Their Thing Away to Somebody (Sometime)" b/w "East
Coast Rapper," issued on SoundPlus. Fields spent most of
the latter half of the '70s cutting sides for Angle 3,
including perhaps his most sought-after single of all,
"The Bull Is Coming" b/w "Funky Screw" (credited to Lee
Fields & the Devil's Personal Band, which only heightened
its surface appeal). His last single with Angle 3 came in
1981, by which time he'd finally released a full-length
album, Let's Talk It Over; naturally, it also went on to
become a rare and pricey collector's item.
Fields was quiet for most of the '80s, but mounted a
comeback in the early '90s, signing with the modern-day
incarnation of the Mississippi-based Ace label. Debuting
in 1992 with Enough Is Enough, Fields plied his trade on
the Southern soul and blues circuit, wearing the glitzy
costumes of old and crooning love songs and come-ons to
largely female audiences who'd never lost their taste for
his style of music. Fields also played keyboards and
synthesizers on his Ace albums, which included 1995's
Coming to Tear the Roof Down and 1996's Dreaming Big Time;
he switched to Avanti in 1998 for It's Hard to Go Back
After Loving You.
By that time, Fields had already hooked up with the New
York-based Desco Records, a trailblazing label devoted to
releasing new material designed to appeal to old-school
funk collectors. Fields guested on one track on the debut
album by the label's house band the Soul Providers, 1997's
Gimmie the Paw. He subsequently began performing live with
the Soul Providers at Desco's showcase gigs in New York,
and released several limited-edition 45-rpm singles. In
1999, he became the first Desco artist to release a
full-length album, the smoking Let's Get a Groove On. Its
strict adherence to organic, classic-style James Brown
funk -- with no synthesizers or drum machines -- won
admiring reviews and helped put Desco on the map with a
hip underground audience that previously never would have
paid attention to new Fields material. Desco subsequently
broke apart into two labels, Daptone and Soul Fire, and
when the dust settled, Fields recorded for both of them.
He issued two 7" singles on Daptone over 2001-2002 ("Give
Me a Chance" and "Shot Down") and then released his next
full album, Problems, on Soul Fire in late 2002. Problems
again won high praise from the funk community. By the time
of the powerful My World, released seven years later (for
the Truth & Soul label), Fields had yet to lose a step.
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