At just seven tracks, LA-based songwriter Lee Lewis packs a decade’s worth of frustration, pain, and, ultimately, learning into his long-gestating debut project, the recently released Something Burning. Landing somewhere between an EP and a full-length project, the release is a fully formed statement about queer Black identity and the inevitable existential episodes such a marginalized spot in our society might lead to, as Lewis’ falsetto remains wholly collected as it bursts through a variety of R&B instrumentals.
With the project out now via Bright Antenna Records, Lewis recently performed the track “Willing & Able” for a “Neighborhoods” set. With a full band set up outside the historic nonprofit African-American women’s organization Wilfandel House in his hometown of Los Angeles, the performance harnesses all of the power of the original recording even in its subdued live interpretation. Check it out below.
