LEE FIELDS -Let's Talk it Over LP on Angle 3 FUNK NM

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Lee Fields -"Let's Talk it Over" in stereo on Angle 3 4-28-79. Gorgeous condition, cover and record. Awesome funk and soul album, one of the best of the 1970's. This one is from the end of the decade, 1979, but includes some tracks recorded several years earlier.

Record Grade: Near Mint, a 9, side 2 is just about perfect, side 1 has a couple of faint surface marks that do not effect play. This record has been play-graded and plays at or better than visual grade.
Cover Grade: Mint-, shrink wrap, the shrink is coming undone somewhat in the back.
Labels: The red and black labels are flawless.

First pressing original, not a reissue.

Tracks:

• Wanna Dance
• Let's Talk it Over
• Mighty Mighty Love
• Fim Flam
• She's a Lovemaker
• You're My Weakness
• Everybody Gonna Give Their Thing Away (Pts. 1 & 2)

  About the Artist: by Steve Huey

  Lee Fields initially made his name among die-hard funk fans with a series of hard-hitting singles recorded for various small labels during the '70s. Everything about Fields -- his look, his vocals, the grooves on his records -- was so indebted to James Brown that he earned the nickname "Little J.B." Fields never hit it big, but his rough-and-tumble singles went on to become popular collectors' items. After a lengthy hiatus, Fields returned in the '90s as a soul-blues belter playing to female-heavy audiences on the Southern circuit. Thanks to sample-obsessed hip-hoppers and British rare-groove aficionados, interest in obscure vintage funk reached a peak in the late '90s, and Fields was fortunate enough to have remained active when new recordings in the style became a viable proposition. Energized by his return to raw, heavy, James Brown-style funk, Fields emerged as the leading light of the so-called deep funk movement with a series of recordings that often equaled, and sometimes outdid, his early work. Fields released his first single on the Bedford label in 1969, "Bewildered" b/w "Tell Her I Love Her." After the 1973 one-off "Gonna Make Love" on London, Fields caught on at Norfolk Sound; 1973 also saw the release of one of his most enduringly popular 45s, "Let's Talk It Over" b/w "She's a Love Maker" (though it wasn't a big seller at the time). Another prized item was 1975's "Everybody Gonna Give Their Thing Away to Somebody (Sometime)" b/w "East Coast Rapper," issued on SoundPlus. Fields spent most of the latter half of the '70s cutting sides for Angle 3, including perhaps his most sought-after single of all, "The Bull Is Coming" b/w "Funky Screw" (credited to Lee Fields & the Devil's Personal Band, which only heightened its surface appeal). His last single with Angle 3 came in 1981, by which time he'd finally released a full-length album, Let's Talk It Over; naturally, it also went on to become a rare and pricey collector's item. Fields was quiet for most of the '80s, but mounted a comeback in the early '90s, signing with the modern-day incarnation of the Mississippi-based Ace label. Debuting in 1992 with Enough Is Enough, Fields plied his trade on the Southern soul and blues circuit, wearing the glitzy costumes of old and crooning love songs and come-ons to largely female audiences who'd never lost their taste for his style of music. Fields also played keyboards and synthesizers on his Ace albums, which included 1995's Coming to Tear the Roof Down and 1996's Dreaming Big Time; he switched to Avanti in 1998 for It's Hard to Go Back After Loving You. By that time, Fields had already hooked up with the New York-based Desco Records, a trailblazing label devoted to releasing new material designed to appeal to old-school funk collectors. Fields guested on one track on the debut album by the label's house band the Soul Providers, 1997's Gimmie the Paw. He subsequently began performing live with the Soul Providers at Desco's showcase gigs in New York, and released several limited-edition 45-rpm singles. In 1999, he became the first Desco artist to release a full-length album, the smoking Let's Get a Groove On. Its strict adherence to organic, classic-style James Brown funk -- with no synthesizers or drum machines -- won admiring reviews and helped put Desco on the map with a hip underground audience that previously never would have paid attention to new Fields material. Desco subsequently broke apart into two labels, Daptone and Soul Fire, and when the dust settled, Fields recorded for both of them. He issued two 7" singles on Daptone over 2001-2002 ("Give Me a Chance" and "Shot Down") and then released his next full album, Problems, on Soul Fire in late 2002. Problems again won high praise from the funk community. By the time of the powerful My World, released seven years later (for the Truth & Soul label), Fields had yet to lose a step.

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  MY GRADING SYSTEMS: I’ve been told that I grade conservatively. My NM (near mint) is my highest grade for opened records (which would also include unplayed records). It’s a 9 or 10 on a 1-10 scale. M- would be equivalent to an 8; VG++ to a 7; VG+ to a 6; VG to a 5; VG- to a 4; G to a 3; F to a 2 and P to a 1. The same scale applies when I grade covers (jackets). Significant defects are specifically noted and taken into consideration in the grade.

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  • Sealed = store stock new
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  • Good = not actually good at all but probably will play through but with much in the way of surface noise, pops, crackles, etc. Still, will have no cracks, chips or the like
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  • Poor = the sky’s the limit, generally I will discard a record this bad (and sell the cover, jacket or sleeve alone) unless the label holds some particular interest

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    • No cover with a cut out hole or saw mark will be graded Near Mint even if it is still in factory shrink and there is no other wear
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    • A saw mark is a narrow cut in the perimeter of the cover, could be anywhere and vary in length from 1/2” to 2” at the most.
    • The overall grade takes into consideration any stated defects. For example, if I grade a cover VG+ and then state it has 6” top and bottom seam splits - I’ve already reduced the grade because of the seam splits. If the seams weren’t split, the cover would be graded higher such as VG++ or Mint-.

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