CD Reviews

Ray Davies
Working Man's Cafe
(New West)

Life sometimes serves up unexpected, traumatic events. When these events occur in the life of an artist, the impact often is reflected in their art. ... Read more of this Exclusive! CASHVILLE411 review.

The much-predicted recession may not have started officially yet, but our sagging economy already has a soundtrack. ... Read more at the New York Daily News.

"You Really Got Me." "A Well Respected Man." "All Day and All of the Night." Ray Davies wrote all those, and plenty more. ... Read more at The Boston Globe.

One of rock's keenest observers found a new palette by moving to New Orleans and made a spectacularly personal album, "Other People's Lives," by basically limiting his subject to the block on which he lived. ... Read more at Variety.

At sixty-three, Ray Davies is still pretty feisty: After getting shot during a mugging in 2004, the Kinks frontman recovered and knocked out 2006’s solid solo album Other People’s Lives. ... Read more at Rolling Stone.