Lee Moses

A powerful but enigmatic figure in soul, funk, and R&B (little is known about his life, especially from the mid-'70s onward), Lee Moses was a vocalist and guitarist who gained his largest audience more than a decade after his death. While most of his material was cut in New York City, Moses' vocal style was very much in the manner of Southern soul of the '60s, raw and passionate and unafraid to push the emotional boundaries of a song, while his guitar work was elemental and scratchy but full of fire, twisting blues, rock, and funk into a sound all his own. Moses' early singles...