The Lewis Connection - The Lewis Connection - LP (1979) Self released - CD (2022) P-Vine - Rare Funk/Soul (MP3)

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 André 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.

Moxy

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