Live & Learn

Live & Learn is the fourth album, released on 6 November 2006, on which Vixen took back big choruses and clear guitars. In contrast to its predecessor, the only original member here is Jan Kuehnemund, supported by Jenna Sanz-Agero (vocals), Lynn Louise Lowrey (bass) and Kathrin Kraft (drums), whom she had gathered during the 2001 Voices of Metal tour. It was the first studio album with Kuehnemund since Rev It Up, sixteen years earlier — and it turned out to be her last. Dennis MacKay produced, engineered and mixed; he had been the engineer on Rev It Up. It was recorded at the Bull Dog Den in Eagle Rock, California, from 2005 to May of the following year. Eleven new songs are joined at track eleven by a cover of David Bowie's “Suffragette City,” coloured by Paulie Cerra's saxophone, and the closing “Give Me Away” rings with Robert Lear's bagpipes. “I Try” won Best Hard Rock/Metal Song in the Independent Music Awards' Vox Pop vote. Kuehnemund died on 10 October 2013, aged 59.