Ray Davies - Storyteller
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Artist: Ray DaviesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-02-07
Music Label: Koch Records
Soundtracks:
- Storyteller
- Introduction
- Victoria
- My Name (Dialogue)
- 20th Century Man
- London Song
- My Big Sister
- That Old Black Magic
- Tired Of Waiting
- Set Me Free
- Dad And The Green Amp (Dialogue)
- Set Me Free
- The Front Room (Dialogue)
- See My Friends
- Autumn Almanac
- Hunchback (Dialogue)
- X-Ray
- Art School (Dialogue)
- Art School Babe
- Back In The Front Room
- Writing The Song (Dialogue)
- When Big Bill Speaks/ The Man Who Knew A Man (Mick Avory's Audition Dialogue)
- It's Alright (Managers Dialogue)
- It's Alright (Havana Version, The Kinks Name Dialogue)
- It's Alright (Up tempo, On The Road - Dialogue)
- Julie Finkler (Dialogue)
- The Ballad Of Julie Finkle
- The Third Single (Dialogue)
- You Really Got Me
- London Song (Studio Version)
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Music Review: Kinks Frontman Ray Davies' Musical Autobiography
Rating: 5 Stars
In 1995, Kinks frontman Ray Davies published his "unauthorized autobiography" X-RAY. A few years later he released what amounted to a musical adaptation of that tale with THE STORYTELLER on Capitol Records. Sadly that album has been out of print for several years. Now Koch Records has re-released this wonderful album in its entirety.
Davies was always the most British of his Sixties contemporaries. Classic albums like SOMETHING ELSE, THE VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY, and ARTHUR revealed Davies as a songwriter who was concerned with the changes he saw in the British Empire and was nostalgic for a past which no longer existed except in his memory. Many of these songs ("Victoria," "20th Century Man," "Autumn Almanac")are revisited here in live versions in small venues with sparse instrumentation (including original Kinks drummer Mick Avory on a handful of tracks).
The songs and the accompanying dialogue (the latter comprises a bit over thirty minutes total) tell the story of The Kinks from its origins to the release of its first successful single--the classic "You Really Got Me." Many of Davies' stories provide new insight to songs like "See My Friends" (written after the death of his older sister when he was 13) and "You Really Got Me" (which the record company did NOT want to record so the band had to raise their own money to record it, and was supposed to include a session drummer--but Mick was sneaked into the studio and allowed to play tambourine).
There are a handful of new songs. "Storyteller" would not have been at all out of place on MUSWELL HILLBILLIES. "X-Ray" is about a sports injury when Davies was young and was told by a doctor that if he didn't quit sports he would end up like the hunchback that frequented the neighborhood. "Art School Babe" is about an unrequited love. "Julie Finkle" is an ode to groupies. "London Song" is the only track to appear on the album twice--the first is a lovely acoustic version, the second is an electric studio version with a full band. [The only other studio recording is "X-Ray."]
Overall, this is a low-key, utterly charming collection of songs. In the introduction to one of the songs, Davies says that despite going to a church school, the closest he felt to religion was not when he was singing in the school choir or going to Sunday School, but "it was more when I rehearsed with (my brother) Dave in the front room." Over the course of 74 minutes, Davies shows us how much these songs mean to him. And in doing so, they give new meaning to his fans. I missed out on this album when it was first released, I'm glad Koch Records gave me a second chance. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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