Muswell Hillbillies

Occupation

  • Vocal / Guitar: Ray Davies
  • Guitar / vocals Dave Davies
  • Bass: John Dalton
  • Keyboard: John Gosling
  • Drums: Mick Avory

Muswell Hillbillies is the ninth studio album by British rock group The Kinks. It was recorded in the period from August to October 1971 and published on 24 November 1971 in England. All compositions contained thereon submitted by Ray Davies. It is named after the London district of Muswell Hill, where the Davies brothers grew up and where they had their first appearances. The cover photo was taken in the Archway Tavern, a typical English pub, but two miles from Muswell Hill district, the photo on the inside of the swing LP cover shows the band on a traffic island at the intersection Castle Yard and Southwood Lane in London's Highgate.

In the songs Ray Davies sings about the stress and frustration that brings the modern city life with it. Earlier, he has often busy but the first time he fills an entire album of songs on this topic. The music ranges from rock ( "20th Century Man" ) and country ( " Muswell Hillbilly " ), blues ( " Here Come the People in Grey" ) to inspired by Vaudeville and variety numbers ( " Alcohol "). In general, the music was very US-American and even if Ray Davies was concerned at the amount of time, noisy rock with country bonds to melancholy -tinged lyrics, with songs such as " Oklahoma " and " Muswell Hillbilly " again with explicitly British subjects. Many critics consider the album as the end of the golden era Kinks, which had begun in 1966 with the album Face to Face.

Muswell Hillbillies was the first album for RCA Records. It was not a great commercial success for the Kinks ( moderately successful in the States, little attention in England) and after the success of "Lola" in the previous year a disappointment for Ray Davies. From today's perspective it is considered one of the best albums of the Kinks and thus shares the fate of many kinks publications of contemporary non-compliance and back contemplative appreciation (compare The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society ).

Title list

Studio albums: Kinks (1964 ) | Kinda Kinks (1965 ) | Kinks Kinkdom (1965 ) | Kinks in Germany (1965 ) | The Kink Kontroversy (1965 ) | Well Respected Kinks (1966 ) | Face to Face (1966 ) | Something Else by The Kinks (1967 ) | Sunny Afternoon (1967 ) | The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968 ) | Arthur ( Or the Decline and fall of the British Empire ) (1969 ) | Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One ( 1970) | Percy - Original soundtrack ( 1971) | Muswell Hillbillies (1971 ) | Everybody's in Show -Biz (1972 ) | Preservation Act 1 (1973 ) | Preservation Act 2 (1974 ) | Soap Opera (1975 ) | Schoolboys in Disgrace ( 1976) | Sleepwalker (1977 ) | Misfits (1978 ) | low Budget (1979 ) | Give the People What They Want (1981 ) | State of Confusion (1983 ) | Word of Mouth (1984 ) | Come Dancing with The Kinks (1986 ) | Think Visual (1987 ) | UK Jive (1989 ) | Phobia (1993 ) | To the Bone ( British version, 1994) | To the Bone ( U.S. version) (1996 ) | BBC Sessions (2001)

  • The- Kinks album
  • Album ( rock )
  • Album 1971
Record label Genre Singing Bass guitar Electronic keyboard Rock music Comédie en vaudeville Face to Face (The-Kinks-Album) Something Else by The Kinks Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) One for the Road (The Kinks album)
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