Lee Fields Exhibits Preternatural Power (The FADER) on New Album It Rains Love, Out Now | Shore Fire Media

8 April, 2019Print

Lee Fields Exhibits "Preternatural Power" (The FADER) on New Album It Rains Love, Out Now

Celebrating 50 Years in Music, Fields Shows Legendary Suit Collection to Vanity Fair, Talks Love, Life and God's Everlasting Dream with The FADER
 
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50 years into an illustrious career that's taken him from grade school talent shows in Civil Rights-era North Carolina to venues across the world, Lee Fields has released new album It Rains Love (Big Crown Records). With contagious verve and trademark compassion, the soul survivor's fifth LP backed by the Expressions extols his doctrines of love, life, and God in times that need them most.

Read more about the record and Fields' "preternatural power" at The FADER, where the living legend discusses performing at Carnegie Hall last month, being sampled by Travis Scott and J. Cole, fake news, five decades of marriage, traveling through our galactic sea, and how "we're all part of an everlasting dream": https://bit.ly/2FWyXR7  

And check out Vanity Fair's look into Fields' collection of a hundred-plus suits, each one a signature of his mission to embody the future: https://bit.ly/2KhR0GP  

Fields made It Rains Love with producer Leon Michels (Lana Del Rey, Adele, Beyonce & Jay Z) in Queens' Diamond Mine Studio and a converted post and beam barn upstate, combining analog oddities, generations of tape saturation, and sometimes six consecutive hours of vocal takes to achieve the sound that's made Fields the godfather of New York City's soul revival. 

Lee Fields and The Expressions begin a tour headlining some of their biggest stages ever this week – full dates below. 

 

Praise for Lee Fields & It Rains Love

"A celebration of love and the endurance of love despite everything in the world against it"

NPR Music

 

"Unerringly classic"

Rolling Stone

 

"Still making old school sound fresh"

Billboard

 

"The Soul Legend You Need to Know"

Garden & Gun

 

"Exactly what you need in your life"

Nerdist

 

"An album that feels at once familiar and exhilarating"

Paste

 

"Chivalrous, jubilant and gushing...delightful listening for all ears"

Cool Hunting

 

"Lee Fields is seizing his moment"

American Songwriter

 

"Another batch of could-be classics"

BrooklynVegan

 

"A rock-solid set of old-school soul combining warm horns, guitars, and keyboards with his fiery vocals and lyrics of love lost and found"

KEXP

 

"A master class in the art of modern soul music"

AllMusic

 

Lee Fields & The Expressions Tour Dates

04/11 – Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig

04/12 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall

04/25 – Utrecht, NE @ Tivoli

04/26 – Berlin, DE @ Columbia Theater

04/28 – Antwerp, BE @ De Roma

04/29 – Paris, FR @ St. Eustache

04/30 – Lille, FR @ Aeronef

05/02 – Cambridge, UK @ The Junction

05/03 – Manchester, UK @ Academy 3

05/04 – London, UK @ 02 Shepherds Bush

05/11 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel

05/12 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall

05/16 – Madrid, ES @ Joy Eslava

05/17 – Barcelona, ES @ La Castanya

05/19 – Brighton, UK @ Soul & Funk Weekender

05/23 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Hall

05/31 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger

06/01 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk

06/02 – Dallas, TX @ Curtain Club

06/06 – Santa Ana, CA @ La Santa

06/07 – Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theater

06/08 – Sonoma, CA @ Huichica Music Festival

06/14 – Bergen, NO @ Bergenfest 2019

06/22 – Dover, DE @ Firefly Music Festival

06/28 – Rothbury, MI @ Electric Forest Festival

07/21 – San Francisco, CA @ Stern Grove Festival

08/02 – Heerlen, NE @ Nieuwe Nor

08/03 – Luhmuhlen, DE @ Summer’s Tale Festival

08/17 – Crickhowell, UK @ Green Man Festival

08/18 – Abbot’s Ripton, UK @ We Out Here Festival

10/03 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega

10/04 – Oslo, NO @ Cosmopolite Scene

10/07 – Dusseldorf, DE @ Zakk

10/09 – Munich, DE @ Technikum

10/10 – Basel, CH @ Atlantis

 

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