Lenny Kravitz

"It Ain't Over Till It's Over" is worth the price of admission alone. It's such an authentically executed homage to early '70s Soul, you'll be hard pressed to believe Kravitz wrote it himself. Beyond that, Mama Said is the strongest set of Kravitz' songs to date, with little filler and a close ear to getting that perfect sound.

New artists often flaunt their influences, but few do so with the intensity that Lenny Kravitz
displayed on his 1989 debut, Let Love Rule. Drawing on the legacies of artists ranging from
John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix to Sly Stone, Kravitz offered a sound and a message that
evoked the guitar-drenched, peace-loving psychedelia of the late Sixties so unabashedly
that it approached fixation. The good news, then, is that Kravitz has discovered... More >

Don't think Hendrix-Beatles, think Prince-George Michael ("Fields of Joy," "Stand by My Woman," "Stop Draggin' Around") (Grade - **)