American Woman

Artist: Lenny Kravitz
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music

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Format: CD-single
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724389603125
EAN: 0724389603125
ASIN: B00000JLI9

Release Date: 1999-06-24

American Woman

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Tracks:

American Woman(Single Version)
Straight Cold Palyer(Live)
Thinking Of You(Hexum Dancehall Remix)
Fields Of Joy(Live)

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Album Description

Single for Lenny's contribution to the 'Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me' soundtrack. A cover of the Guess Who's old classic hit, it's backed with 'Thinking Of You' (Hexum Dancehall Mix) and two tracks recorded live at Brixton Academy on December 7th, 1998, 'Straight Cold Player' & 'Fields Of Joy'. Slimline jewel case. 1999 release.

Album Details

German 4-track single contains Two live tracks from Brixton Academy: 'Straight Cold Player' & 'Fields of Joy', plus 'Thinking of You' (Nick Hexam's Dancehall mix).

Customer Reviews:

<3 Lenny's #1 Fan!!! <3.......2006-10-17

I own every full length CD ever released by Lenny Kravitz, but I had to be talked into buying this single. Only because I assumed all of the songs sounded the same as on the original CD... but I was wrong. The songs are remixed so it adds a special twist. My Favorite is 'Thinking Of You(Hexum Dancehall Remix)' This was definately worth the money. I highly recommend it for all Lenny fans ;)

Karaoke Kravitz.......2006-03-27

It's not that this is a bad song, it's that Lenny simply mimics the original and leaves me wondering, "Why is this version necessary?" I've always been of the opinion that a cover song should cast a new light on a song. It should reveal a different artist's interpretation by playing the song in their style. But Kravitz gives us what we've already heard. I think, perhaps, that he doesn't have a real style to bring to the song. He simply goes through the motions.

Money replaced the music.......2001-09-27

Why doing it to the Canadian band "Guess who"? Why doing it to rockers around the world who liked the original "American woman"? Why making a 'whiter shade of pale' cover version to a classic? I tell you why. Money. Since his last good album "Circus", Lenny Kravitz looks to me like a musician that cares more about his shows in the MTV and his fashion style, then the music he does. So somewhere on the way to the bank, Kravitz lost his music. So 0 stars for "American woman", and 1 star for the whole single, because of the live version of "Fields of joy", that reminds us, that there is another Lenny Kravitz, who deals with music.

Kravitz' cover of American Woman is INCREDIBLE!.......2000-09-08

I have to underscore the other reviewer's comment...AMERICAN WOMAN IS THE BOMB! I have even ordered the old CD track of American Woman by The Guess Who because it inspired me so when I heard it again last summer (time of the release of the Austin Power's movie).

It is a classic rock-n-roll song and if you don't like this song, you just must not be a fan of that rock era! It brought back the early 70's to me, bell bottoms and army jackets. But Kravitz executed the recording of this cover with his own signature style, and the result is sexy and rockin'...

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