Throughout the 1970s, North Carolina’s Lee Fields was better known as “Little JB,” owing to his considerable debt to James Brown’s indomitable presence both onstage and on record. Sporting a similar ...

Lee Fields & The Expressions will release their new album, Special Night, on November 4 via Big Crown Records. “When I record, I make every song like I actually mean it. I mean every word I say,” says ...

If you think you know all about funk and soul, you'd better know Lee Fields. Long compared with James Brown and Otis Redding, Fields has held fast to his love of the groove, and in recent years has ...

While these weekly music picks are here for us to let our readers know (or remind them) of what these bands sound like, sometimes we get lost in trying to describe the sounds of these bands more than ...

The night was indeed magical as Lee Fields and The Expressions performed selections from his latest album “Special Night,” Saturday at the 2720 Cherokee Performing Arts Center for their most recent ...

There are many flavors of contemporary soul music. But when it comes to neo soul, timeless R&B that would have sounded as good on a turntable in the 1960s as it does now, there are really only two ...

Very few contemporary soul artists have managed to build as lasting a career as Lee Fields. Since his first single in 1969, the bluesy crooner has weathered every trend imaginable. Part of his ...

Huichica, the bicoastal music festival that stops in Sonoma, takes over Gundlach Bundschu Winery on Friday and Saturday, June 7-8, with none other than Lee Fields & the Expressions as the headliner.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Lee Fields & the Expressions returns to St. Louis with a show On Nov. 6 at 2720 Cherokee. Also on the bill are Big Brother ...

In some ways, the Lee Fields story personifies the cyclical nature of cultural appreciation: Stick with what you love long enough and, like a turntable set to 33 1/3 years per revolution, it will come ...

While James Brown was the hardest-working man in soul music, Lee Fields is the hardest-feeling, dishing out emotional exorcisms with every hoot, holler, and wail. Even the name of his backing band — ...

SOUL MAN: Attending a show by Lee Fields & The Expressions is about as close as a person comes, in this day and age, to the experience of standing in a club in 1960s Memphis, having your mind blown ...