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Yahoo!New West Records; February 2008
Working Man’s Café is Kinks legend Ray Davies’s second solo outing since his seminal band disbanded in 1996. As such, it is a decent follow-up to 2006’s perhaps too slickly produced Other People’s Lives. Certainly Davies’s acerbic sociopolitical observations still resonate profoundly—especially on “Vietnam Cowboys.” On the title track, Davies strolls London’s High Street, nostalgic for the old working-class hangouts of his youth that have been supplanted by ubiquitous Starbucks and Gaps. Meanwhile, the autobiographical “Morphine Song” uses a Preservation Hall sound while absurdly chronicling the aftermath of having been shot in New Orleans several years back. Now in his early sixties, Davies still comes across as a well-respected man and vibrant artist with a lot left to express—and he’s still not like anybody else.
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