MUSIC NEWS - Kinks frontman RAY DAVIES has announced the release of a new album, the imaginative "Kinks Choral Collection" (November 10 release via Decca; re-released in the UK with extra bonus track November 23) and that he will briefly tour the USA to promote the release. The tour will start up on November 12 in San Francisco at the Warfield, while ending on November 24 in Montclair, NJ.Th
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After a massively successful career spanning more than 40 years, Ray Davies, the legendary lead singer of The Kinks, is back with creative and unusual interpretations of songs from his extensive catalogue. These are not merely re-recordings of the originals but whole new choral adaptations. Often referred to as “almost indisputably rock’s most literate, [...]
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MUSIC NEWS - Now that his London musical , Come Dancing , based on the Kinks tunes, has opened, RAY DAVIES has announced a return to the states to promote his latest set, "Working Man's Cafe ." The former Kinks leader and veteran singer/songwriter will kick off the tour on November 28 in Tampa, FL, and hit eleven cities on the run, which goes through mid-December. Itinerary is listed ...
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Ray Davies just announced a handful of live shows in the US (+1 in Toronto) this Spring. The Kinks frontman will tour in support of his second solo album, Working Man's Cafe from March 28 to April 8th. The dates according to NME.com are:Ray Davies North American solo tour:San Francisco, CA The Warfield (March 28)Los Angeles, CA Wiltern Theatre (29)Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre (April 1)Toronto,...
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Ray Davies new album Workman Man's Cafe will be released in the US on February 19th via the New West/Ammal label. The album, Davies' second solo effort, was released in the UK this past October.Davies had much success from his recent solo career. His 2006 solo album, Other People's Lives, saw Davies creep back onto the Top 30 chart for the first time since his days with the British classic rock...
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I've never really gotten deeply into The Kinks. That's not that I don't enjoy their music. The problem is there's so damn much of it, and the vast majority seems so good that I find it daunting trying to come up with a n obvious entry point.Head Kink Ray Davies may have just provided that to me with the release of The Kinks Choral Collection. The album sees Davies re-record fifteen classic
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Because the more thoughtful songs outnumber the straight-forward rockers, and the harder songs are camped up, the album works as a whole.The idea of Ray Davies re-recording more than a dozen classic Kinks’ songs with choral accompaniment suggests two contrasting ideas simultaneously. On the one hand, he wrote great tunes. To have new renditions of some of rock’s most enduring compositions recr
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Wasn't sure what to expect from Ray Davies as I discovered the Kinks late in life and was only familiar with his past two CDs. To accommodate the older crowd they smashed tons of chairs into narrow long rows into the unusual shaped room of the Crystal Ballroom. The narrow rows made for interesting close and bonding experiences whenever anyone needed to exit for restrooms or more beer so then l...
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It's been nearly a year since it's release, but I've found myself listening to Ray Davies' Other People's Lives quite a bit lately. I gave it numerous listens upon its release, but it somehow got lost in the shuffle of all the music released last year. I'm glad I've rediscovered it. It is great to hear new material from Davies, and his songwriting is as sharp as ever. Certainly an under-rated s...
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All of us over here in the US are getting ready for Thanksgiving Day tomorrow. I love the holiday because I get to eat and there doesn't seem to be a huge commercialization of the holiday. We don't get presents for each other--our present is our presence. Here is a great song off Ray Davies' solo album, Other People Live's. A tear is welling up...I love Ray Davies and I love Thanksgiving. How c...
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Dang, late night really brought it last night, guys! The man, the myth, the legend, Ray Davies of (recent Band of the Day) the Kinks brought his touring choir to Letterman for a pretty darn fun performance of "You've Really Got Me," one of his old band's most famous songs. Meanwhile, the always fun-but-fairly dated Brian Setzer Orchestra appeared on Conan, which got us all nostalgic for the l...
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Because the more thoughtful songs outnumber the straight-forward rockers, and the harder songs are camped up, the album works as a whole.The idea of Ray Davies re-recording more than a dozen classic Kinks’ songs with choral accompaniment suggests two contrasting ideas simultaneously. On the one hand, he wrote great tunes. To have new renditions of some of rock’s most enduring compositions recr
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Ray and Dave Davies were the youngest of eight children whose ages spanned almost 30 years; the six elder siblings were all girls. The Davies family home was a tiny house in the London suburb of Muswell Hill, although the two brothers spent many of their childhood years apart -- Dave went off to live with one of the sisters, Rene, while Ray divided his time between his family's home and that o...
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Ray Davies performed The Kinks's classic "You Really Got Me" on the Late Show with David Letterman. Check it out below:
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MUSIC NEWS - Now that his London musical , Come Dancing , based on the Kinks tunes, has opened, RAY DAVIES has announced a return to the states to promote his latest set, "Working Man's Cafe ." The former Kinks leader and veteran singer/songwriter will kick off the tour on November 28 in Tampa, FL, and hit eleven cities on the run, which goes through mid-December. Itinerary is listed ...
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