Lenny Kredshitz

Ok, I said I would get back to Lenny. Ok, the guy is extremely talanted, he's got a fantastic voice both for rock and soul, and plays guitar good enouh to play with most rock bands. He also writes really good songs (not always), as well as some real crappy ones.

Anyhow, his problem is on the cred side. He is not really sincere it seems, most of what he does is a pose. He is like the guy in Roxette, Per Gessle, who can steal and borrow stuff, and put it together really well in a new but tretro way.

So, ok, Per Gessle is lame and is not a good comparison. Take Jay Kay from Jamiroquai, kind of the same deal as Lenny, has delivered insanely good tracks, has an incredible voice also, but all is retro, done before.

So is this ok? Well, in a way, since they both are so talented, and takes such good care of the heritage where they work within.

Will they ever be cool? Not with the cred crowd.

Back to Lenny, it's more than once I have been to chicks' 40 years parties, and the records they have is usually lots of 70's disco, some hit collections,  quite mainstream. Then suddenly, at the bottom of the pile is tha Lenny Kravitz Greatest Hits, and then you realize the guy's done a bunch of really smokin' songs, like "Are you gonna go my way", "I wanna Fly Away" and "American Woman" to name a few. "It ain't over till it's over" is just an amazingly good song, within the Al Green/Marvin Gaye context. It is actually even a tad bit better than those artists best songs, if you ask me.

So, what can you say about Lenny? What should he do? Is he too handsome? Too much the sexy dark tropical island umbrella drink ladies dream?

I don't know, but on his last album, he's got a marriage proposal song, "Will you marry me" Kind of like a song for guys to play while proposing. Well Lenny, stop churning out theme songs like that, and you might have a chance to get some cred, some day.