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| New Music Minute featuring Ray Davies & Mike Doughty |
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RAY DAVIES
Ray Davies is the legendary musician and Rock N'
Roll Hall of Fame member (founder, singer,
songwriter of The Kinks), His latest solo
recording features 12 new songs written by Davies,
and co-produced with Grammy Award winning
producer/engineer Ray Kennedy. Recorded in
Nashville, and mixed in London, Working Man's Cafe
is Davies' second solo album following his solo
debut in May 2006. Davies focuses on the plight of
the worker, the every day man around the world. It
is Davies' "American record" describing the
changes he's seen in this country since he first
started visiting in the '60s. In a recent Mojo
Magazine review Davies is described as having a
"tourist's blend of enchantment and bafflement"
when writing about the United States.
MIKE DOUGHTY
Mike Doughty's father was in the U.S. Army and
Doughty was schooled on Army bases in the United
States and Europe. "I was too sensitive, too
questioning. When I found music, it changed
everything" says Doughty. He played bass in a high
school band and started writing songs. By the time
he entered the New School in New York City to
study poetry, he'd developed his syncopated guitar
style. Mike Doughty's new recording, Golden
Delicious, is a freewheeling set. Its most
political song is "Fort Hood" the Texas Army base
that has lost the most troops in the Iraq War." "I
visited some of the wounded troops at Walter Reed
Hospital in D.C. and wondered what was going
through their minds. When I first sang the chorus
'Let the Sunshine In" (from Hair) I felt myself
tearing up" says Doughty.
Tags : New Music Minute ray davies Mike doughty americana fast focus fastfocustv alternative pop rock folk |
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Affichage : 10141
Durée : 290 s |
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