“Woman” by Wolfmother

"Woman" first came roaring out of Australia in 2004 on Wolfmother's debut EP, which carried the band's own name, and two years later it got a second life as the fourth single from their first full-length album, also called Wolfmother. It's pure retro thunder: a fuzz-caked riff that stomps like it was dug out of a vintage record crate, drums at a gallop, a keyboard swirl underneath, and a vocal howled straight up into the rafters.

Myles Heskett, Chris Ross and Andrew Stockdale share the writing credit, and Dave Sardy is credited as producer on the Modular release. Nobody was trying to sound modern, and that was the whole point.

Once American rock radio caught on, it reached number 7 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and 10 on Modern Rock Tracks, and in 2007 it won Best Hard Rock Performance at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards.

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