Working Man's Café (original) (raw)
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2007 studio album by Ray Davies
| Working Man's Café | |
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| Studio album by Ray Davies | |
| Released | 22 October 2007 (UK), 19 February 2008 (USA) |
| Studio | Room & Board Recording, Nashville, Tennessee |
| Genre | Rock |
| Label | V2 |
| Producer | Ray Davies, Ray Kennedy |
| Ray Davies chronology | |
| Other People's Lives(2006) Working Man's Café(2007) The Kinks Choral Collection(2009) |
Working Man's Café is the fourth studio album by English singer-songwriter Ray Davies released on 22 October 2007 in the UK. A day earlier, on 21 October, a ten track promotional copy of the album (minus bonus tracks "Hymn for a New Age" and "The Real World") was "given away" with the Sunday Times newspaper in the UK. The album was released in the US on New West/Ammal Records on 19 February 2008.
The cafe pictured in the artwork is Lane Cafe, located within walking distance of Konk Studios.
Professional ratings
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   link |
| Paste Magazine |  link |
All tracks are written by Ray Davies
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Vietnam Cowboys" | 4:13 |
| 2. | "You're Asking Me" | 3:22 |
| 3. | "Working Mans Café" | 3:44 |
| 4. | "Morphine Song" | 4:18 |
| 5. | "In a Moment" | 4:29 |
| 6. | "Peace In Our Time" | 4:37 |
| 7. | "No One Listen" | 3:11 |
| 8. | "Imaginary Man" | 4:10 |
| 9. | "One More Time" | 4:29 |
| 10. | "The Voodoo Walk" | 4:25 |
| Total length: | 40:58 |
Bonus Tracks
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 11. | "Hymn for a New Age" | 3:42 |
| 12. | "The Real World" | 5:05 |
| Total length: | 49:45 |
American Deluxe Edition
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 13. | "Angola (Wrong Side of the Law)" | 4:29 |
| 14. | "Vietnam Cowboys" (Demo) | 2:52 |
| 15. | "The Voodoo Walk" (Demo) | 4:25 |
| Total length: | 61:31 |
The American Deluxe Edition also contains a separate DVD with a twenty-minute short film named Americana: A Work in Progress, filmed and directed by Ray Davies, featuring footage from the Storyteller tour that took place in the autumn of 2001.
- Ray Davies - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards, background vocals
- Patrick Buchanan - electric guitar
- Ray Kennedy - additional electric guitar, percussion
- Craig Young - bass
- Tim Lauer - keyboards
- Shannon Otis Forrest - drums
- Karin Forsman, Ray Kennedy - background vocals
- Mick Avory - percussion on "You're Asking Me"
- Nick Payne - tenor and baritone saxophone on "Morphine Song"
- Mike Cotton - trumpet on "Morphine Song"
- Simon Edwards - bass on "One More Time"
- Martyn Baker - drums on "One More Time"
- Bill Lloyd - electric guitar on "The Real World"
Technical
- Rob Crane - design
- Chris Clunn - photography
- The Official Ray Davies Website