Jawel, hij komt weer naar Dordrecht! Toen Lee Fields in 2006 samen met The Sugarman 3 het Dolhuis bezocht, ging het dak eraf. Inmiddels zit dat er na een verbouwing weer stevig op dus hoogste tijd voor een tweede bezoekje, dit maal vergezeld door The Expressions. Op 23 oktober 2012 presenteert The Beatclub in samenwerking met Het Dolhuis met trots: Lee Fields & The Expressions.
Laat duidelijk zijn dat soul voor Lee Fields geen modegril is. Fields was al volop actief in de jaren zeventig en zijn singletjes uit die tijd worden gezocht door fanatieke aanhangers van het genre. Zijn looks en muzikale stijl deden in die tijd aan James Brown denken, wat er voor zorgde dat Fields de bijnaam Little J.B. in de schoot geworpen kreeg. Eind jaren negentig werd de muziek van Fields opgepikt door een nieuwe generatie funk- en soulfans van het Desco label – waaruit later ook o.a. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Charles Bradley, The Budos Band, The Menahan Streetband ea uit voortkwamen. Sindsdien maakte Lee Fields alweer vijf nieuwe albums, waarvan ‘Faithful Man’ uit maart 2012 de nieuwste is.
- Dinsdag 23 oktober 2012
- Dolhuis – Dordrecht
- deur 20:00u
- tickets 15 euro voorverkoop, (bij oa Velvet Music Dordrecht), 17,50 euro aan de deur
- Koop je digitale ticket hier (klik)
Biografie Lee Fields
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 and 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. 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 Pitchfork.
While drawing comparisons to groups like The Moments, The Delfonics, The Stylistics, and–of course–James Brown, My World has been 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 parrot and imitate them. Chalk that up to Truth & Soul producers and co-owners Jeff Silverman and Leon Michels, as well as the high level of musicianship of everyone involved. These are the same individuals that wrote, produced, and played on Aloe Blacc’s global smash hit LP Good Things for Stones Throw Records, and have provided the back drop for records by El Michels Affair, Adele, Liam Bailey, Ghostface Killah, and Jay-Z to name a few.
“In a curious case of musical evolution, the older Fields becomes, the closer he gets to perfecting the sound of soul that he grew up with as a young man,” so said music writer, scholar, and DJ Oliver Wang about Fields in a piece for NPR in July 2009. The latest LP from Lee Fields and The Expressions, titled Faithful Man, is the next step towards this perfection. A step that may find Fields, The Expressions, and Truth & Soul as a label, finally being bestowed the contemporary soul music crown.