Download: Lee Fields – “You’re The Kind Of Girl”
There aren’t many artists who keep their cool well into their fifth decade in the business, but R&B veteran Lee Fields is one. With a career spanning 43 years and having toured the world over with his raucous-yet-tender voice, the music he’s making today is the best of his career. He will release new albumA Faithful Man March 13, 2012 on Brooklyn’s Truth & Soul Records. Listen now to the album version of debut single “You’re The Kind Of Girl” which premiered on RollingStone.com.
Faithful Man is Fields’ follow-up to the well-received 2009 album My World, and his second album for Truth & Soul–a label reinventing the Motown-style soul factory for a brand new era. The album interprets and then pushes the formulas of good soul thanks to Truth & Soul producers and co-owners JeffSilverman and Leon Michels, as well as the high level of musicianship of everyone involved. 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 backdrop for records by El Michels Affair, Adele, Liam Bailey, Ghostface Killah and Jay-Z, to name a few.
Born and raised in the small town of Wilson, North Carolina, Fields spent his teenage years singing in church and listening to the classic sound of ’60s Memphis. By the late sixties, Lee was touring with the bands who would lay the foundation for funk music, including Kool and the Gang, Sammy Gordon and the Hip-Huggers, and Little Royal. And back in the 1970s, Fields was nicknamed Little JB for his similarity to James Brown. These days, he’s got a sound that’s all his own.
With a catalog that ranges from funk to lo-fi blues to contemporary Southern soul and collaborations with French house DJ/producer Martin Solveig, Lee Fields has done it all. With A Faithful Man, he takes it right back to the old school, with a modern take on a vintage sound. The songs tell tales of love, heartbreak and blues in the time-honored way.
If there were any doubt at all, take heed of Lee’s own words: “Take it from me,” he says on one track, “I still got it.”
Faithful Man Track Listing:
- Faithful Man
- I Still Got It
- You’re The Kind Of Girl
- I’m Still Hanging On
- Intermission
- Wish You Were Here
- Who Do You Love
- Moonlight Mile
- It’s All Over But The Crying
- Walk On Through That Door
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