As with all my posts i love mp3 and not keen on flac. The Lewis Connection were a Minneapolis based soul/heavy funk band who only released the one album in the Twin Cities area in 1979. The band was composed of Sonny Thompson (who would become a member of The New Power Generation many years later), and brothers Pierre Lewis and AndrĂ© Lewis. The album was released in very limited supply (only around 200 copies are thought to have been pressed). The album contained "Got To Be Something Here", written by Sonny Thompson and featuring Prince on background vocals and guitar. The Lewis Connection is an alternate name for the band 'The Family, led by Sonny Thompson in the 1970’s (and which is unrelated to the band produced by Prince in the 1980’s The Family). Confusingly, the group released a single around the same time, Stone Lover, which also featured Prince on guitar, under the moniker MLF. Prince’s contributions to "Got To Be Something Here" were recorded in late 1976 at Sound 80, during sessions where Prince also worked on at least one other track, "Stone Lover" with basically the same musicians. Stone Lover was released as a single but not included on an album. It is not known if The Lewis Connection played live to support the album, but it is unlikely Prince would have appeared with them, as he was quite successful in his own right at the time of the album’s release in 1979. They disappeared from the music scene.
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The Funky Tasters!
14 comments:
Thanks Moxy for the prince(ly) connection.
Another interesting obscurity! Thanks for review, P.
This is group is new to me , but im a big prince fan so really looking forward to the full review , cheers Paul
Please and thank you.
THANK YOU Moxy and AMM, I`d be grateful to hear this.
Cheers!
Bill
Very nice rarity... many thanks Moxy for this review.
MP3's @320 always appreciated here :)
BigD
Thank you so much Moxy. I had never heard of this group. Thank you for letting us know and thank you AMM.
Thanks Moxy, this looks interesting.
Thank you AMM & Moxy For This Album
Hi Moxy nice share and i enjoyed reading your article, is a new artist for me and looking forward to taking a listen
thank you Reb
A new band to me, thanks for the review Moxy
Thanks Moxy great review
New one for me Moxy, thank you.
cheers,ELtel
Never heard this one before. Liking the tasters. Thanks for this great review!!!
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