Live & Learn (Vixen album)

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Live & Learn
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Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 6, 2006
Recorded2005 – May 2006
StudioBull Dog Den Studio, Eagle Rock, California [1]
Genre Hard rock
Length43:47
Label Demolition
Producer Dennis MacKay
Vixen chronology
The Best of Vixen – Full Throttle
(1999)
Live & Learn
(2006)
Extended Versions (Live in Sweden)
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Live & Learn is the fourth studio album by American hard rock band Vixen, released on November 6, 2006, in Europe and on January 30, 2007, in the United States. [1] The band's line-up performing on this album was formed in 2001 with the only original member guitarist Jan Kuehnemund. [1]

Contents

This is the last studio album featuring Kuehnemund, who died in 2013, and the only studio album for this line-up as returning members Janet Gardner, Roxy Petrucci, Share Ross, and Gina Stile took on the Vixen name after the remaining members negotiated the best step to take after Kuehnemund's death, which was to allow the surviving classic members to reunite.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jan Kuehnemund and Jenna Sanz-Agero, except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Anyway" 3:34
2."Live and Learn" 3:12
3."I Try" 3:53
4."Little Voice" 3:47
5."Pacifist"Eden Stollman, Kuehnemund, Liz Larin 3:50
6."Don't Want It Anymore" 3:55
7."Love Song" 3:27
8."Angry"Kuehnemund, Sanz-Agero, Lynn Louise Lowrey3:14
9."I'm Sorry" 3:04
10."You Wish"Kuehnemund, Lowrey3:44
11."Suffragette City" David Bowie 3:25
12."Give Me Away" 4:36

Personnel

Vixen
Additional musicians
Production

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