Working Man's Café

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Working Man's Cafe
Studio album by Ray Davies
Released 2007
Genre Rock
Label V2
Professional reviews
Ray Davies chronology
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Working Man's Café is the second solo album (released 22nd October, 2007) by Ray Davies, formerly lead singer and songwriter of The Kinks. A day earlier, on 21st October, 2007, a 10 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.

This album was released in the USA on New West/Ammal Records on 19th February 2008.

[edit] Track Listing

  1. Vietnam Cowboys
  2. You're Asking Me
  3. Working Man's Café
  4. Morphine Song
  5. In A Moment
  6. Peace In Our Time
  7. No One Listen
  8. Imaginary Man
  9. One More Time
  10. The Voodoo Walk
  11. Hymn For A New Age (bonus track)
  12. The Real World (bonus track)

The American CD/DVD deluxe edition, released on 19th February 2008, contains the following four bonus tracks in addition to those aforementioned:

  1. Angola (Wrong Side of the Law)
  2. I, The Victim (Rough Mix From the Upcoming project called “Ripper”)
  3. Vietnam Cowboys (demo)
  4. The Voodoo Walk (demo)

It 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.