Time to talk soul once again. Summer soul. How could anyone not love this? Lee Fields is described as a “pure, gut-bucket soul singer”. Having released limited 7″s and one album in the ’70s, the New York production team Truth & Soul decided to do some Al Green/Questlove shit and get him to record a brand new album of nostalgia-tinged modern soul ballads. The result is superb – you can hear a man who maybe hasn’t belted it out quite as hard in quite a long time.
The press release for My World also notes the cross-generation/genre twist going on here – “hip hop-reared record collectors come full circle to produce an album of beautiful soul music with one of the progenitors who made it all possible.” Nice. This is beautiful stuff.
Lee Fields and the Expressions – Honey Dove
Lee Fields and the Expressions – My World is Empty Without You
My World is released on June 1st. Record Label page.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
real, real nice
one of the reviewers on that guardian music podcast was going on about not liking emotion in his signers (e.g. otis reading) the other week, don’t really understand that, when the emotion is real/raw. Love Otis, and this here Mr. Fields hits very strong. On the basis of those tracks will definitely be purchasing
singers even
great, great stuffmate.
nice one.
cheers