Lee Fields - Sentimental Fool Tracklisting1. Forever2. I Should Have Let You Be3. Sentimental Fool4. Two Jobs5. Just Give Me Your Time6. Save Your Tears For Someone New7. The Door8. What Did I Do?9. Without A Heart10. Ordinary Lives11. Your Face Before My Eyes12. Extraordinary Man In early 2022, Lee reunited with Daptone Records and producer Gabriel Roth to recordSentimental 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 outon juke joint stages, crumpled dollars hailing at his feet. It continues now that theliving legend is in his late sixties, ushering in the most successful and fruitful period ofhis 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 soullegends 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 thisposition. 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 itin 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)
