After a brief tumultuous career in the 1960s, soul singer Arthur Conley (Sweet Soul Music, Funky Street) settled in Ruurlo in Achterhoek, where he would live until his death in 2003. As Lee Roberts & The Sweaters (a Dutch R&B band) he gave three concerts in 1980 in the Amsterdam Bijlmer. Recordings of it were previously released on LP and have now been released on CD for the first time. This
… beautiful edition contains a DVD with the short documentary that Erik van Lieshout made for VPRO. Also on view is an episode of Traveler In Music, devoted entirely to Conley. (MS)more
