{"id":2446427,"date":"2019-07-17T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=859754"},"modified":"2019-07-17T07:00:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T13:00:25","slug":"ray-and-dave-davies-recording-new-kinks-songs-for-possible-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/ray-and-dave-davies-recording-new-kinks-songs-for-possible-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray and Dave Davies Recording New Kinks Songs for Possible Album"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Kinks<\/a> have been teasing fans<\/a> about a reunion that never seems to materialize<\/a> for the greater part of the past decade, but it\u2019s now finally happening. In a new interview with Channel 4 News in England,<\/a> Ray Davies<\/a> said he was recording a \u201cnew Kinks record\u201d with his brother Dave Davies<\/a> and original Kinks drummer Mick Avory. \u201cThe trouble is, the two remaining members, my brother Dave and Mick, never got along very well,\u201d Ray said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve made that work in the studio and it\u2019s fired me up to make them play harder, and with fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has really been going on for a couple of years,\u201d Dave Davies tells Rolling Stone<\/em> via phone on Tuesday. \u201cWe keep going backwards and listening to a lot of old stuff. Some of that is very good, and some of it needs a bit of work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Much of their time was devoted to finding tracks for a 50th anniversary of their landmark concept record Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire),<\/em> which Dave says will come out in October. \u201cThat\u2019s virtually done,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s a really, really interesting package that\u2019s going to have other songs from that time period like [my solo song] \u2018Hold My Hand.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The process of going through the archives has led them to numerous songs from their long history that remain unreleased. \u201cSome we recorded but never used,\u201d says Dave. \u201cOthers don\u2019t have finished vocals or they need other embellishments.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group has been recording some new compositions by Ray along with finishing off some of these older songs and re-recording them. Avory drums on some of the tracks, while his replacement Ben Henrit, who played with the group from 1984 to 1996, appears on others. They have yet to figure out who will play bass once they formally record them. (Original Kinks bassist Pete Quaife died in 2010. Jim Rodford, who played bass with the group from 1978 to their breakup in 1996, died last year.) \u201cThe songs are really just in demo form now,\u201d says Dave. \u201cBut good demos. Ray is still dissecting various other material we might use. The intention is to get the work out, but it\u2019s not a done deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Dave is planning to record another Open Road<\/em> LP with his son Russ David and go on another solo tour. When asked if the Kinks will tour now that they\u2019re recording together again, Dave lets out a long, deep laugh. \u201cInteresting question,\u201d he says. \u201cI really don\u2019t know. I think its possible. It\u2019s not out of the question. But at this stage, it\u2019s far too early to say. It would be fun though, wouldn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Kinks have been teasing fans about a reunion that never seems to materialize for the greater part of the past decade, but it\u2019s now finally happening. In a new interview with Channel 4 News in England, Ray Davies said he was recording a \u201cnew Kinks record\u201d with his brother Dave Davies and original Kinks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 16:52:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}