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- Date Released: May 15, 1999
- Genre: Hip-Hop/R&B
- Style: Soul, R&B, Acid Jazz, Funk
- Label: Desco / RoyaltyShare
Neo-soul as it should be — rough, tough and raucous
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We Say...
Like many of the '70s-era stylists whose sound and approach Lee Fields mirrors, his raw, gritty delivery works perfectly in a host of idioms. This 1999 gem features him operating in hard funk mode, shouting and soaring over flaring beats and accelerating his pace and intensity while moving through each piece. Fields can be confrontational ("Bad, Bad, Bad," "Let a Man Do What He Wanna Do"), funny ("Hey Sallie Mae (Get Off My Feet)") and occasionally even outrageous ("I'm A Millionaire"), but he's always in vocal command of every situation. His strongest singing comes on "Take It or Leave It," a five-minute-plus manifesto where he demonstrates the bravado and authority that often surfaced on the better tracks from his '90s Ace releases. Unfortunately, neither contemporary urban radio nor the classic soul stations have any interest in this music, despite its vitality.
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They Say...
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.
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| 01. |  |
Intro By Mr. Fields |
1:36 |
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| 02. | |
Let's Get A Groove On |
2:54 |
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| 03. | |
Watch That Man |
4:18 |
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| 04. | |
Hey Sallie Mae (Get Off My Feet) |
3:10 |
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| 05. | |
Let A Man Do What He Wanna Do |
2:50 |
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| 06. | |
All By Myself |
3:32 |
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| 07. | |
Put It On Me |
3:56 |
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| 08. | |
Take It Or Leave It |
5:30 |
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| 09. | |
Steam Train |
3:12 |
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| 10. | |
I'm A Millionaire |
3:47 |
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| 11. | |
Bad, Bad, Bad |
3:10 |
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11 Total Tracks, 37:55 Total Length
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