Premiere: Lee Fields and Sugarman & Co., “Stand Up” MP3
- story Peter Macia
On November 24th Daptone Records will release Daptone Gold, a collection of some of the label’s rarest and most favorite singles and deep cuts on CD and a lovingly packaged double LP, which includes a poster, a sticker and some amount of gold foil. The recession is over! YAYYYY!! The always fiery Lee Fields appears three times: once on a duet with Sharon Jones, again on his own “Could Have Been” (Daptone founder Gabe Roth’s all-time fave), and on “Stand Up,” previously only available as a 45 RPM single. But since Thanksgiving is still a few weeks away and today is off-year election day in many cities around America, Daptone gave us the latter mpfree to get you in the proper state of mind for both voting and purchasing. Keep your eye on the Daptone store for pre-orders or wait until the 24th to buy in a dusty old vinyl shop.
Download: Lee Fields and Sugarman & Co., “Stand Up”
Freeload: Lee Fields, “Ladies” MP3
- story THE FADER
For the first time in a long time, we recently heard Donny Hathaway. It was at a fancy concert, waiting for the headliners, and we couldn’t place the music piped in. We knew some preppy dude was singing along with his arm around his girlfriend, looking like he didn’t have a choice, ventriloquist lips. Longtime soul singer Lee Fields has that same gentle push of soul music: He makes you miss it when it’s gone and cherish it when it’s around. And then you fuck up and forget about it and just listen to Jim Jones and Neutral Milk Hotel for months on end until something reminds you. Well, this is your reminder. Fields’ new album, My World, was released this past Tuesday, and his summer tribute to women, “Ladies,” is from the record. They could be from 1975 and we would not know the difference, which is probably a good thing.
Download: Lee Fields, “Ladies”
