Ray Davies - Working Man's Cafe

Half-Speed Mastered by Stan Ricker!

Featured in Michael Fremer's Heavy Rotation in the September 2008 Issue of Stereophile!

Stereophile Rated 4.5/5 Music, 4/5 Sonics in the May 2008 Issue of Stereophile!

Working Man's Cafe a new studio album by legendary musician and Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame member Ray Davies (founder, singer, songwriter of The Kinks), features 12 new songs written by Davies, and co-produced with Grammy Award winning producer/engineer Ray Kennedy (Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle). Recorded in Nashville, mixed in London, Working Man's Cafe is Davies' second solo album, following his solo debut Other People's Lives, release in 2006.

Working Man's Cafe, focuses on the plight of the worker, the every day man around the world. It is Davies' "American record" (many of the songs were written in the U.S.) describing the changes he's seen in this country since he first started visiting in the '60s. In a recent four star Mojo Magazine review Davies is described as having "a tourist's blend of enchantment and bafflement" when writing about the United States.

"As good as anything Ray has written in decades." - Mojo

"Rock'n'roll may have started out as youth music, but Ray Davies is proving that the ability to play it doesn't evaporate with age." - John Swenson, Stereophile May 2008

Features:
• Half-Speed Mastered by Stan Ricker!
• 180g Vinyl
• Double LP
• 3 Bonus Tracks

Selections:
LP 1
1. Vietnam Cowboys
2. You're Asking Me
3. Working Man's Cafe
4. Morphine Song
5. In a Moment
6. Peace in Our Time
7. No One Listen
8. Imaginary Man
9. One More Time
LP 2
1. The Voodoo Walk
2. Hymn for a New Age
3. The Real World
Bonus Tracks:
4. Angola (Wrong Side of the Law)
5. Vietnam Cowboys (Demo)
6. The Voodoo Walk (Demo