Lee Fields - Sentimental Fool

Lee Fields - Sentimental Fool

Tracklisting
1. Forever
2. I Should Have Let You Be
3. Sentimental Fool
4. Two Jobs
5. Just Give Me Your Time
6. Save Your Tears For Someone New
7. The Door
8. What Did I Do?
9. Without A Heart
10. Ordinary Lives
11. Your Face Before My Eyes
12. Extraordinary Man

In early 2022, Lee reunited with Daptone Records and producer Gabriel Roth to record
Sentimental Fool, a deep, blues-tinged, wholly-conceived soul album. From his first line to his final plaintive lyric, the beauty, power, and raw humanity of Leeʼs voice is on full display here; the culmination of an astounding career that has seemed to defy gravity, rising to only greater and greater heights.

Soul music pours out of Lee Fields, as free and unstinting as God's love.
It was ever since the 1960's, when he was a teenager in North Carolina sweating it out
on juke joint stages, crumpled dollars hailing at his feet. It continues now that the
living legend is in his late sixties, ushering in the most successful and fruitful period of
his career. 

Like any living legend worth their salt, Fields has suffered despair, obscurity, defeat.
Although he now tours stages around the world, and although he helped fellow soul
legends like Sharon Jones (who was once Fields backup singer) and Charles Bradley
(whom Fields took on his first tour) get their first break, he did not always have this
position. There were years—they were known as "the 1980's—when Fields nearly gave up. His success these days, then has a bittersweet tinge: His dear friends Bradley and Jones have both passed, leaving Fields to outlive them and carry their legacy forth.

With all these years, and all this life, comes a sort of divine wisdom, and Fields has it
in spades. "I am a sinner, just like everybody else," he says gravely. He is no & holier—than—thou guy he adds. He just believes in people's ability to love and be loved, and he understands that music is the divine bridge to these places.
Produced By Gabriel Roth (Thee Sacred Souls, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings)