The Lewis Connection - The Lewis Connection (2013)

Soul/funk Minneapolis-based band was released only one album in the Twin Cities area in 1979.
The band was composed by: Sonny Thompson (who would become a member of The New Power Generation many years later), and brothers Pierre Lewis and André Lewis.

The album contains "Got To Be Something Here", featuring Prince on background vocals and guitar, marking the first time Prince appeared on a release by another artist, on a track he did not write. Prince's contributions to "Got To Be Something Here" were recorded in late 1976 or early 1977 at Sound 80 while Prince also worked on his own tracks.

With insurance money from a recently overturned Buick Century, brothers Andre and Pierre Lewis went on a recording tear through the Twin Cities in 1978, cutting a half-dozen songs in as many studios. Combining the astrosexuality of Parliament with the sophisticated flammability of Earth, Wind & Fire, the Lewis Connection's misspelled debut captures the Minneapolis Sound's founding fathers - Prince among them - at the paradigm-shifting confluence of funk, jazz, and pop for which the Land of 10,000 Lakes is famed.