Street Faërie

Infobox Album |
Name = Street Faërie
Type = Album
Artist = Cree Summer


Background = orange
Released = April 20 1999
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 59:10
Label = Work/SME Records
OK 68749
Producer = Lenny Kravitz
Reviews =

Last album =
This album = "Street Faërie"
(1999)
Next album =

"Street Faërie" was the first full-length album recorded by Cree Summer. It was released in 1999 on The Work Group, a now-defunct imprint of Sony Music. Summer, who is Neo-Pagan, and a political and human rights activist, wove themes of racism, romantic liaisons, and spirituality into the lyrics of guitar-heavy pop and folk songs. "Miss Moon" is an ode to lovemaking while a woman is menstruating. "Fall," a fully orchestral jazz ballad, reads like the breakup of a relationship but is in fact the literal interpretation of the wilting and decay of a leaf: "Black stemmed, orange trimmed/with the slighest wind I'm fallen from you." "Naheo" is a tribute to Summer's Native American roots, while "Curious White Boy" is a Black woman's response to her white lover after she realizes he has become involved with her out of some sense of racial guilt: "Another housekeeper fantasy?/Coffee-colored remedy for your hangover from history."

Track listing

#"Revelation Sunshine" (Greg Bell, C.S. Francks) – 4:55
#"Miss Moon" (Francks, Lenny Kravitz) – 4:30
#"Still Heart"(Francks, Kravitz, Torrel Ruffin) – 2:51
#"Deliciously Down" (Francks, Van Hunt) – 4:51
#"Mean Sleep" (Francks, Hunt) – 4:35
#"Life Goes On" (Bell, Francks) – 3:29
#"Fall" (Francks, Ruffin) – 5:55
#"Angry Boy" (Francks, Ruffin) – 4:56
#"Sweet Pain" (Francks, Hunt) – 4:22
#"Smoothing My Heart" (Francks, D.R. Harris) – 5:30
#"Naheo" (Francks, Ruffin) – 4:06
#"Soul Sister" (Bell, Francks) – 4:16
#"Curious White Boy" (Francks, Ruffin) – 4:54
#"Revelation Club Sunshine" (Greg Bell, C.S. Franks)

Credits

*Kimberly Evans - background vocals
*Lenny Kravitz - bass, guitar, percussion, arranger, drums, harpsichord, organ, programming, tambourine, vocals, background vocals, clavinet, producer, mellotron, cowbell, horn arrangements, mixing, finger cymbals, drum loop, cabasa
*Terry Manning - drums, programming, engineer, mixing
*Craig Ross - acoustic guitar, mandolin, electric guitar
*Cree Summer - vocals, background vocals
*Harold Todd - flute, saxophone
*CeCe White - background vocals