The crappier the music industry gets, the more popular musicians will look for other strategies to release albums - even musicians of the 60-year old geezer variety. Ray Davies, one of my favorite musicians in the world and one who's vastly underrated in the United States, will be releasing his second solo album Working Man's Cafe in the October 21 issue of the Sunday Times in London, according to Spinner. It's free with the paper.
Ray Davies, of course, is best remembered as the the frontman of The Kinks, most famous for their British Invasion hits like "You Really Got Me," "All Day and All of the Night," "Tired of Waiting for You," and "Lola." However, they're legacy in America was dampened by being banned from the U.S. for years during the 60s. The Kinks responded by producing some of the most distinctly British rock of all time, both with their now-class The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society and classic tracks such as "Waterloo Sunset" and "David Watts."
It wasn't really until the Britpop sensation of the '90s that the Kinks started to get their full respect in the States, as bands such as Oasis and Blur listed the Kinks as Oasis. Like Oasis, the Kinks were led by constantly sparring brothers, and Ray Davies released his first solo album Other People's Lives in February 2006 while his brother Dave was recovering from a stroke. Davies and the Kinks have toyed with the trends of the time in the past, whether it was their disco-like Come Dancing or their failed rock opera Preservation, and now Ray Davies is giving record executives a headache, but in a subtle, incisive manner. Basically, it's a deceptively subversive move, as deceptively subversive as, say "Apeman," "Plastic Man," and "Where Have All the Good Times Gone" so I'm fine with it.
Ray Davies, of course, is best remembered as the the frontman of The Kinks, most famous for their British Invasion hits like "You Really Got Me," "All Day and All of the Night," "Tired of Waiting for You," and "Lola." However, they're legacy in America was dampened by being banned from the U.S. for years during the 60s. The Kinks responded by producing some of the most distinctly British rock of all time, both with their now-class The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society and classic tracks such as "Waterloo Sunset" and "David Watts."
It wasn't really until the Britpop sensation of the '90s that the Kinks started to get their full respect in the States, as bands such as Oasis and Blur listed the Kinks as Oasis. Like Oasis, the Kinks were led by constantly sparring brothers, and Ray Davies released his first solo album Other People's Lives in February 2006 while his brother Dave was recovering from a stroke. Davies and the Kinks have toyed with the trends of the time in the past, whether it was their disco-like Come Dancing or their failed rock opera Preservation, and now Ray Davies is giving record executives a headache, but in a subtle, incisive manner. Basically, it's a deceptively subversive move, as deceptively subversive as, say "Apeman," "Plastic Man," and "Where Have All the Good Times Gone" so I'm fine with it.
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