“Always On The Run” by Lenny Kravitz with Slash

"Always on the Run" was the song Lenny Kravitz sent out first from his second album, Mama Said, in March 1991, and he brought company. The music started with Slash of Guns N' Roses, who had written it for a record by his own band; when Guns N' Roses' former drummer Steven Adler had trouble playing it, Slash held on to it until he and Kravitz got together.

Kravitz sings lead, plays guitar, bass and drums, wrote the words and produced it, with Slash sitting in on guitar and sharing the music credit. The horn players are guests too: Karl Denson and Butch Tomas on saxophone and Mike Hunter on trumpet. Henry Hirsch engineered it with David Domanich and mixed it for Virgin Records. It's funk rock that struts and sweats, loose in the hips and hard in the chest.

Jesse Dylan directed the video. On June 6, 1992, when Guns N' Roses brought their Use Your Illusion Tour to Paris, Kravitz joined them onstage to play guitar and sing it.

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