Are You Gonna Go My Way by Lenny Kravitz (CD, Mar-1993, Virgin)

Album Features
UPC:	077778698425
Artist:	Lenny Kravitz
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1993
Record Label:	Virgin
Genre:	Oldies, Rock 'N' Roll

Track Listing
1. Are You Gonna Go My Way
2. Believe
3. Come on and Love Me
4. Heaven Help
5. Just Be a Woman
6. Is There Any Love in Your Heart
7. Black Girl
8. My Love
9. Sugar
10. Sister
11. Eleutheria

Details
Playing Time:	46 min.
Contributing Artists:	Angie Stone
Producer:	Lenny Kravitz
Distributor:	EMI Music Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Lenny Kravitz (vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, Mellotron, bass, drums, chimes); Craig Ross (acoustic & electric guitars); Dave Domanich (electric guitar, drums); Eric Delente, Soye Kim, Robert Lawrence (violins); Sarah Adams, Liuh-Wen Ting (viola); Allen Whear, Frank Murphy (cello); Michael Hunter (French horn, flugelhorn); Henry Hirsch (piano, Wurlitzer organ, synthesizer, bass); Michael "Ibo" Cooper (Hammond B-3 organ, Clavinet); Carolyn Davis Fryer (acoustic bass); Tony Breit (bass); Gerry DeVeaux, Angie Stone (background vocals).Recorded at Waterfront Recording Studios, Hoboken, New Jersey.Lenny Kravitz's performance of "Are You Gonna Go My Way" was nominated for a 1994 Grammy Award as "Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo.""Are You Gonna Go My Way" (Lenny Kravitz/Craig Ross) was nominated for a 1994 Grammy Award as "Best Rock Song."Personnel: Lenny Kravitz (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, Mellotron, drums, chimes, background vocals); Craig Ross (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); David Domanich (electric guitar, drums); Eric Delente, Soye Kim, Robert Lawrence (violin); Luih-Wen Ting, Sarah Adams, Liuh-Wen Ting (viola); Frank Murphy, Allen Whear (cello); Henry Hirsch (strings, piano, organ, Wurlitzer organ, ARP synthesizer); Michael Hunter (flugelhorn, French horn); Michael "Ibo" Cooper (Clavinet); Carolyn Davis Fryer (double bass); Gerry DeVeaux, Angie Stone (background vocals).Audio Mixer: Henry Hirsch.Recording information: Waterfront Recording Studios.Photographer: Jean Baptiste Mondino.Unknown Contributor Role: Eric Delente.Lenny Kravitz comes roaring out of the gate on his third full-length release, ARE YOU GONNA GO MY WAY, with the lead-off title track--a blazing, riff-propelled rocker that proudly bears the influence of Jimi Hendrix. As evidenced by that song's homage, Kravitz's late-1960s and early-'70s fixations are still firmly in place here (especially on the Led Zeppelin-esque "Is There Any Love in Your Heart" and "My Love," which recalls SGT. PEPPER'S-era Beatles). However, the singer/multi-instrumentalist also expands his palette on this album with the contemporary R&B of "Heaven Help" and the reggae-drenched "Eleutheria."Fortunately for fans of Kravitz's tried-and-true aesthetic, he never strays far from his stomping grounds. "Believe" draws on dreamy '60s soul (complete with phased vocals and sing-along chorus), and "Come On and Love Me" works a hard funk-rock groove. Kravitz's retro-minded songwriting and rough-hewn voice (which revs on upbeat tunes and croons soulfully on ballads) conjure the spirits of rock's greatest icons, updating pop's history books in one stylish, hard-to-resist package.

Editorial Reviews
...the strongest statement yet of Kravitz's style and sensibility, an encapsulation of a '90s view of the rock-soul past bounded by neither the assumptions of Elvis or Dylan, on the one hand, nor punk on the other....fantastically alive...
Musician (19930401)

...truly inspired pop schlock.... Kravitz remains his own blissfully self-centered man....A fascinating chronicle of one man indulging himself in public... - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (19930319)

Recommended - ...his music reoccupies tiny patches of pop history in a way that delightfully fetishizes the details while abandoning all pretense of significance...
Spin (19930401)

3 Stars - Good - ...sly, confident and restlessly bold in spots, it transcends its influences without leaving them completely behind....from the sound of him, Lenny Kravitz has found a space to be himself...
Rolling Stone (19930429)