Fields, Lee
Let's Get A Groove On
Rare & Collectible Vinyl Records

Sealed 2020 Remastered Reissue. First Remaster Since Its Original Release In 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." AMG Review By Steve Huey.