Lee Fields - Let's Get A Groove On (Vinyl Desco DSLP004 EX)
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Lee Fields - Let's Get A Groove On (vinyl)
Desco Records DSLP-004 1998
Lee Fields spent most of the '90s on the Ace label, recording soul-blues albums whose funkiness was often dampened by cheap-sounding, partly synthesized backing tracks. Judging by his performance on his Desco Records debut full-length Let's Get a Groove On, Fields' move to the pioneering old-school funk-revival label freed him to do the kind of gritty, authentic funk album he'd been itching to record for quite some time. Laying out his principle of "rough...nasty...genuine" funk in a spoken intro, Fields positively smokes through the whole record, capturing all the fire of late-'60s James Brown (whom he strongly and unashamedly resembles, vocally) with the help of the Desco house band, the Soul Providers, who lay down a richly organic set of guitar-and-organ-dominated funk backings. Let's Get a Groove On is blatantly derivative of its influences, but the simple act of returning wholeheartedly to those influences -- in a musical climate which has assimilated and moved away from them -- could in itself be considered an innovation. Regardless, it's a stunning performance from Fields and the record that fulfills Desco's promise -- quite possibly one of 1999's best, and definitely one of its most overlooked.
A1
Intro By Mr Fields
A2
Let's Get A Groove On
A3
Watch That Man
A4
Hey Sallie Mae (Get Off My Feet)
A5
Let A Man Do What He Wanna Do
A6
All By Myself
B1
Put It On Me
B2
Take It Or Leave It
B3
Steam Train
B4
I'm A Millionaire
B5
Bad, Bad, Bad
COVER/SLEEVE - EX
VINYL - EX
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