Kinks- One for the Road 45th Anniversary- Ray Davies 5-25

Prior to the Kinks’ late Seventies studio trifecta of Sleepwalker, Misfits, Low Budget, and the June 1980 double live album One for the Road, the legendary Londoners had a fraught career of miscalculations, missteps, and plain bad luck. Certainly The Kinks, led by singer/songwriter Ray Davies, had been right there at the forefront of the British Invasion on US radio along with the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and The Who. But at era-defining live events such as Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock in the Sixties, Watkins Glen, California Jam, and the US Festival in the Seventies, and Live Aid in the Eighties, where were The Kinks?

The Poet Laureate of Rock, Ray Davies, joins me In the Studio to answer that and many more questions here  the week of May 25, framed by lively versions of “All Day and All of the Night”, “Lola”, “Celluloid Heroes”, “You Really Got Me”, “Victoria”, “Picture Book”, and others. -Redbeard