The survivor

Incredible story as Lee Fields, 100% black artist who began his career in the late 60s, which is still several years in the shadow of the biggest earning the nickname "Little JB" ("Little James Brown") then sinking into oblivion, only to be reborn like a phoenix at the dawn of the 21st century, first with his performance from Martin Solveig for the song "Jealousy", some featuring on albums by Joss Stone, before recording three albums as exhumed 60s and 70s, then they are perfectly Recent!
This third opus, certainly the most ambitious albums of Lee Fields, the result of an impressive production purist, an extreme vintage spirit. I regularly amused to listen to samples from this album to people who do not know this artist, asking them to date it, and it works every time: 1970!
One thinks, and for many reasons, the great Al Green. Already compared to his album Lay It Down 2008: Similarly, the author of Let's Stay Together we went out a timeless nugget, which would easily have been recorded 35 years earlier. Another point of comparison, Fields bashes out blues accents and aligns the ballads, in the purest spirit "Greenien" where the blues and soul come together in the purest magic. And I finally found that the interpretation of Lee Fields is as much as James Brown Al Green.
The cover of the album, originally designed for the vinyl market, which shows the singer looking through a lighted window as if he contemplated the future from an inner yesterday, plays on stereotypes and albums typography of yesteryear. Just check out these references to be convinced: Lets Stay Together, Muddy Waters "Live" What's Going On, All Directions, Curtis ...
Listen Lee Fields is indulging in a classic unspoilt soul forty years later!

The first album, Problems (2002), is a rehash of the "James Brown style," which clearly think Maceo Parker, with the same wanderings and the same approximations, entries very impactful materials but in terms of melodies and arrangements could use some work ... We can not say it is really great product.
The second, My World (2009), is a gem of a warm and sincere groove. Enjoying this time a brilliant production Lee offers a classy and soft proofing of his illustrious model, with beautiful arrangements, with superb instrumentals and compositions to fall.
Yet it is still below what the bomb "Faithfull Man"! This third installment is clearly the most inspired, the most heavenly and the most magical of all.
Both say nothing is to throw in these ten tracks. a meteoric material input with the title "Faithful Man", which immediately displays the leached but powerful voice of the singer, the sumptuous and inspired "Wish You Were Here", which convenes choirs, violins and brass of the great time, until the final "Walk On Thru That Door" and the dampness of the atmosphere, through a "Intermission" instrumental (story recalled that Lee Fields album, it also is music ... ), a "I Still Got It" with hints of "It's a man's man's man's world" and "You're The Kind Of Girl" funkier, it is all the work of craftsmanship of this artist outside of time who is reaching for an impossible disc stop as soon as it is launched, and is likely to heat up your turntables wear.
Beautiful, classy, ​​precious and miraculous, especially in these times of musical soup where the added share of black artists, inventors formerly of modern music, no longer seem to indulge today, through hip hop and so incomprehensible to the bling bling vulgar and sensationalist. Far from me the idea reactionary to claim that "it was better before." But I admit that the debilitating excess of the current variety masquerade this artist to lifesaving survivor. God lent him life!