Lenny Kravitz's Invitation To Fly Away Positively Spellbinding

Soar with me into my salute to Amelia Earhart Day. Taking the helm as musical pilot for this trip is Lenny Kravitz. If he walked away from the music scene right now he'd have a pretty damned impressive legacy of indelible tunes to show for his efforts. Among the gems on this string of pearls is "Fly Away". Buckle your seat belts. This plane's going airborne really fast. Just dig right into the attitude copping guitar and you know the sky truly is meant to be the limit here. Toss some whip crack percussion in for good measure. Lenny has one of those magnificent soul voices that embodies what genuine means. You don't have to peel back studio production, marketing tactics, slick overdubbing, or an excess of ego to learn the true essence of the man. When he tells you he wants to fly above the trees you know he's elevating to a higher spiritual conscience. He's a man who wants to visit the Milky Way and you don't doubt he, with the strength of his compelling mind, could very easily make that happen. There's a heavy emphasis on rock guitar the same way he employed it in the remake of "American Woman" or his skull thumping jam "Are You Gonna Go My Way". Throughout his career he's done an amazing job of straddling rock, soul, and R & B. It pays rich dividends on "Fly Away". The video displays no shortage of a standing room only party personality. That's smart photography at work. Lenny is so totally caught up in the moment, and that's an enviable place to find him. He's the real deal and I suspect always will be. The more he sings about wanting to get away, the more excited you are by the prospect of seeing just where he transports himself. He's triumphant in the utterance of that exultant "Yeah!!" as the "I want to get away" chorus repetition multiplies towards the end. You're excited for him because you know not only does he want to get away, you believe deep in your heart that he's more than halfway to succeeding. More often that not his songs contain a male/female dynamic. In this instance he wants to share the cosmos with this woman. He wants her spirit to fly. He encourages them to become one. At no point does he present himself as anything other than approachable. In a lesser artist's hands these lyrics might come off as being strictly the trappings of a trip to Fantasyland that no sane female would dare think possible. Authenticity knows no shelf life. Lenny has his own corner of that market nailed. "Fly Away" is a stellar aircraft right from that first push off the tarmac.