LEE FIELDS and the EXPRESSIONS live in New Zealand for the first time
There aren’t too many artists making soul music today who had a release in 1969; Lee Fields, however, is one such
artist—or maybe he’s better labelled a phenomenon.
Since the late sixties, the North Carolina native has amassed a prolific catalogue of albums and has toured and played
with such legends asKool and the Gang,Sammy Gordon and the Hip-Huggers,O.V Wright, Darrell Banks, andLittle 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 ownTruth & Soul Records is the best of his career.
With a catalogue that ranges fromJames Brown-style funk to lo-fi blues to contemporary Southern soul to collaborations with French house DJ/producerMartin 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" byPitchfork.
While drawing comparisons to groups likeThe Moments,The Delfonics, TheStylistics, and--of course--James Brown, My World has been able to create a space of its own due to the group's desire to
interpret and further the formulas of good soul music rather than parrot and imitate them.
"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, andDJ 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, finally being bestowed the contemporary soul music crown.
Don’t miss out on what is sure to be an extraordinary tour of both contemporary and throwback soul, as Lee Fields& The Expressions play NZ for the first time.
Saturday 11th January 2014
The Powerstation – Auckland
Presale tickets on sale Tuesday 5th November from
General tickets on sale Thursday 7th November from Ticketmaster
For all show & ticketing info go to www.muchmoremusic.co.nz
Click here forYOU’RE THE KIND OF GIRL VIDEO http://bit.ly/1bB2FE8
Click here forFAITHFUL MAN VIDEO (acoustic) http://bit.ly/17X6Urm
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