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Ray Davies "Americana"
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I also listened to this release – it’s grown on me. I think what I most like is the laid back approach … quite spare and chilled but with some nice industrial moments as in “Change for Change”, so not boring, and at the same time, I find the sounds to be sophisticated.

IMHO, this really comfortable synergy seems to happen when people are one hundred percent at home in their musicianship skin which is what is so wonderful about mature ‘post career’ releases, if they can be called that – those that are past the perceived zenith, at any rate!

Sounds like he really enjoyed making the album, and said what he wanted to – good for him. I'm not big on vaudevillian, but there isn't a lot of that, and I do like quirky; there certainly is that! Your linked track is great CH … this one too, for me …

[video=youtube;bFG-buhIDEA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFG-buhIDEA[/video]
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Ray Davies "Americana" - by CRAZY-HORSE - 23-04-2017, 07:33

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