muzycy:
Lee Fields-vocals
The Del-Larks-backing vocals
Leon Michels-guitar, keys, saxophone
Thomas Brenneck-guitar, bass
Quincy Bright-bass
Nick Movshon-drums, bass
Homer Steinweiss-drums
Toby Pazner-vibraphone, keys
Micahel Leonhart-trumpet, mellophone
Aaron Johnson-trombone
Garo Yellin-cello
Rachel Garb-violin
Rico Reese-violin
Amy Adams-viola
Yoshi-congas, percussion

Lee Fields story:
Lee was born and raised in the small town of Wilson, North Carolina,one of 4 children. He spent his adolescence years singing in church and listening to R&B Artists such as James Brown, The Temptations, Eddie Floyd, Otis Redding and the classic sound of 60's Memphis. He joined a few racial balance groups in the South and began playing college circuits that included East Carolina University, Duke University and Georgia Tech. By the late sixties, Lee began his singing career, working with bands which would lay the foundation for funk music including Kool and the Gang, Sammy Gordon and the Hip-Huggers, and Little Royal.

Renowned throughout the global Funk community, Lee Fields has poured his grunts and screams over a legacy of funk and soul hits from the early seventies, including such 45 rpm classics as She�s a Lovemaker, The Bullis Coming, and The Funky Screw, not to mention his well sought after Let�s Talk It Over LP. This LP draws four digit bids from collectors worldwide. His recordings with the hard funk purists at TRUTH & SOUL, Desco, and Daptone Records in recent years has solidified his place as the King of contemporary funk music as well.

When Truth & Soul started as a record label in 2004, the first mission of label owners Jeff Silverman and Leon Michels, was to record a sweet soul record that would be modeled after the near perfect formula that bands like The Moments, The Delfonics, and The Stylistics had created. Music that was both tough as nails and sweet as honey. Music with laced with lush strings and smooth vocal harmonies layered over hard-hitting rhythms. Michels and Silverman called in a few trusty associates, which included singer Lee Fields, and recorded the single "Do You Love Me" b/w "Honey Dove". What happened in the studio was pure magic and thus, The Expressions were born.

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Lee Fields kompletnie ignoruje współczesne trendy i dlatego jego comeback po latach wydaje się szczery, podobnie jak wrzucane tu i tam zamiast fucków teksty w rodzaju "A man is incomplete without a lady in his life" - taki stosunek do kobiet jest równie obcy dzisiejszym gwiazdom soulu, co maniery przy stole. Jego comebackowy album jest pokryty patyną i ma w sobie naturalną elegancję i szyk, którego brakuje współczesnym wykonawcom. Zero plastiku. W wywiadach Fields przyznaje się do fascynacji Jayem-Z a nagrywa z muzykami The Budos Band i Antibalas � brzmieniem nie odstaje wiele od klasyków z Motown, i ma porównywalny ogień.