Throughout the 1970s, North Carolina’s Lee Fields was better known as “Little JB,” owing to his considerable debt to James Brown’s indomitable presence both onstage and on record. Sporting a similar ...
Lee Fields & The Expressions will release their new album, Special Night, on November 4 via Big Crown Records. “When I record, I make every song like I actually mean it. I mean every word I say,” says ...
The night was indeed magical as Lee Fields and The Expressions performed selections from his latest album “Special Night,” Saturday at the 2720 Cherokee Performing Arts Center for their most recent ...
If you think you know all about funk and soul, you'd better know Lee Fields. Long compared with James Brown and Otis Redding, Fields has held fast to his love of the groove, and in recent years has ...
Veteran soul-man Lee Fields’ second album for Truth and Soul picks right up where 2009’s My World left off. Full of passionate, deeply emotive tracks fleshed out with full orchestration and driven ...
Huichica, the bicoastal music festival that stops in Sonoma, takes over Gundlach Bundschu Winery on Friday and Saturday, June 7-8, with none other than Lee Fields & the Expressions as the headliner.
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Lee Fields & the Expressions returns to St. Louis with a show On Nov. 6 at 2720 Cherokee. Also on the bill are Big Brother ...
Most of Fields' songs have been about love won, fought over and lost; it's a testament to his talent that each new one can feel like he's singing... Songs We Love: Lee Fields & The Expressions, 'Never ...
In some ways, the Lee Fields story personifies the cyclical nature of cultural appreciation: Stick with what you love long enough and, like a turntable set to 33 1/3 years per revolution, it will come ...
R&B veteran Lee Fields brings his backing band the Expressions to the Chapel in San Francisco's Mission District for two nights including a New Year's Eve celebration. Much like his fellow soul ...
Lee Fields is one the last true soul wailers. Not only has he worked with a litany of magnificent artists — from O.V. Wright and Darrell Banks to Johnny Taylor, Bobby “Blue” Bland and B.B. King — but ...
A recent spate of CD and vinyl reissues has introduced a new generation to West Side soul, a San Antonio-born sound that emerged in the early ’60s when Mexican American teens blended R&B and doo-wop ...