Lee Moses born 13 March 1941

Vincent Lee Moses (March 13, 1941 – January 26, 1998), known as Lee Moses, was an American R&B and soul singer and guitarist. His recordings in the late 1960s as well as his 1971 LP Time and Place, are highly regarded within the deep soul genre. 

Lee Moses was born on March 13, 1941, in Atlanta, and he attended Booker T. Washington High School, where he sang in talent shows and learned to play guitar. Moses formed his first band, the Showstoppers, in the 1950s, and the group became a major draw in the Atlanta area. They were at one time the house band at the Royal Peacock club. In the mid-'60s, Moses relocated to New York City and began working as a session guitarist, primarily working with producer and behind-the-scenes man Johnny Brantley, who had roots in Georgia. Moses' tough but expressive guitar style and gritty, impassioned vocals became one of the hallmarks of Brantley's productions. He managed to release one single in 1965 on the Lee John Records label, “Diana (from NYC)” b/w “My Adorable One”. 

                                    

In 1967, Brantley helped Moses land a record deal with Musicor Records, and that year he released three singles for the label: "Reach Out, I'll Be There" b/w "Day Tripper," "Bad Girl (Part I)" b/w "Bad Girl (Part II)," and "I'm Sad About It" b/w "How Much Longer (Must I Wait)." Despite the strength of the material, Moses' Musicor sides did little business, and other 45s he issued that year for Dynamo fared no better. Moses' guitar style has been described as "funky" and likened to that of Jimi Hendrix, a contemporary of his on the club scene of the mid-1960s. He has also been praised for his "rough and powerful deep soul singing style". 

In 1970, Moses released a single, "Time and Place", on the Maple label, a subsidiary of All Platinum Records. This was followed by a nine-track LP of the same name - also produced by Brantley - that included his versions of several classic songs of the period including "Hey Joe" and "California Dreaming". The album featured several members of The Ohio Players, as well as Moses' own band, the Diciples. Although the album has since been described as "a revered and highly sought-after lost treasure for deep soul fans and collectors," it was a commercial failure at the time. 

After cutting a 1973 single for Gates Records -- a powerful version of "The Dark End of the Street" b/w "She's a Bad Girl" -- Moses decided he'd had enough of Brantley and the music business. He returned to the Atlanta area, where he played occasional club dates, but he never recorded again. Moses died in 1997 at the age of 56. 

While Lee Moses enjoyed little recognition during his lifetime, after his death the Time and Place album was discovered by crate diggers and soul music obsessives, and original copies started to fetch high prices among collectors. In 2007, the British label Castle Music gave Time and Place a reissue on both vinyl and CD, with many of Moses' single sides added as a bonus. In 2016, the American archival label Future Days Records brought out a new edition of Time and Place that restored the album's original sequence, and three years later the same label issued How Much Longer Must I Wait? Singles & Rarities 1965-1972, which collected all of Moses' non-LP singles, adding three unreleased tracks to the mix. 

(Edited from Wikipedia & AllMusic)