Since the 1980s, Ray Davies has intermittently led a seminar for aspiring songwriters through England’s Arvon Foundation — a side hustle he landed, of course, as a result of the dozens of classic ...
Ray Davies has a new LP on the way entitled See My Friends due on November 1st. The release will see The Kinks frontman pairing with multiple bands to re-record, and sometimes re-imagine, Kinks songs.
DETROIT (Billboard) - After reinterpreting his past for "The Kinks Choral Collection," which comes out Tuesday, Ray Davies says that "my initial instinct is to write some new songs again." And he may ...
During the last several years, both Ray and his brother, founding Kinks guitarist Dave Davies, have revealed in interviews that they are open to doing a reunion project and have even worked on some ...
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The Kinks' Ray Davies is among the greatest British songwriters in rock and roll history, but one underrated effort from 1971 still stands out as a favourite.
Like most sequels, Ray Davies' "Our Country: Americana Act II" doesn't live up to the original. The Kinks co-founder's latest effort is a follow-up to last year's "Americana," a standout record that ...
Today (June 21) marks the 80th birthday of Ray Davies, best known as the longtime frontman of The Kinks. During his band’s 30-year career, the insightful and prolific singer/songwriter composed dozens ...
After an absurdly long period of creative gestation, Ray Davies, leader of legendary band the Kinks, returns this week with Other People's Lives, his first new album since 1998 and his first set of ...
The Kinks were on the verge of collapse when they began 1969’s Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire). They’d just parted ways with original bassist Pete Quaife and their previous ...