The recording career of Lee Fields extends at least as far back as 1969, but he was considered little more than a footnote in R&B history until the late 1990s and early 2000s, when he emerged as a latter-day roots-soul celebrity. Cast initially as a James Brown-style funk artist, Fields landed his sole chart hit, “Stop Watch,” in 1986, and though he enjoyed moderate success on the 90s southern soul-blues circuit, he was scuffling in semi-anonymity a few years later when the retro-soul crowd caught up with him.…
The recording career of Lee Fields extends at least as far back as 1969, but he was considered little more than a footnote in R&B history until the late 1990s and early 2000s, when he emerged as a latter-day roots-soul celebrity. Cast initially as a James Brown-style funk artist, Fields landed his sole chart hit, “Stop Watch,” in 1986, and though he enjoyed moderate success on the 90s southern soul-blues circuit, he was scuffling in semi-anonymity a few years later when the retro-soul crowd caught up with him.…