April 27, 2012 12:22 pm by: Reid O'Conor
Brooklyn based soul artist
Lee Fields is a soul artist in the truest sense. Today, it's easy to throw something in the music industry and have it land on an artist or band that plays "soul/______ fusion." That is not the case with Lee Fields. Lee Fields and his band The Expressions play soul. They play soul and they do it well, frequently inviting comparisons to James Brown. In fact, some might say he's tread too close to James Brown territory in the past. But no one would say that his most recent release,
Faithful Man, is anything but Lee Fields' own style. Tonight, Lee Fields & the Expressions will be playing at the Continental Club. You can also hear them
RIGHT HERE, when they played live in Studio 1a....
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