{"id":2360,"date":"2011-07-25T22:55:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T05:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2011-07-25T22:55:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T05:55:26","slug":"ray-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/ray-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"RAY DAVIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2361\" title=\"Ray-Davies-See-My-Friends-M-Review-MarApr2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Ray-Davies-See-My-Friends-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Ray-Davies-See-My-Friends-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Ray-Davies-See-My-Friends-M-Review-MarApr2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>R<\/strong><strong>AY DAVIES<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>See My Friends<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Decca]<\/p>\n<p>Former Kinks leader Ray Davies\u2019 all-star duets project seems at first like a gimmicky tease. As Springsteen and Bon Jovi growl and wail through some of Davies\u2019 more delicate gems, one can\u2019t help but wonder what the point of all this might be. But eventually the bigger names stop chewing up the scenery, and the pairings become more like true collaborations than curiosities. Lucinda Williams\u2019 weary take on \u201cLong Way From Home\u201d turns what used to be a message from one brother to another into a moment of honest self-reflection. Paloma Faith adds even more sexual confusion to \u201cLola\u201d by spinning the gender-bending tale into a story about a woman who falls for a woman who turns out to be a man. <em>See My Friends<\/em> is seemingly unnecessary, but if it inspires Davies to write new songs or results in more teenagers picking up on his classic Kinks work, its existence will be justified. \u2013David Styburski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAY DAVIES See My Friends [Decca] Former Kinks leader Ray Davies\u2019 all-star duets project seems at first like a gimmicky tease. As Springsteen and Bon Jovi growl and wail through some of Davies\u2019 more delicate gems, one can\u2019t help but wonder what the point of all this might be. But eventually the bigger names stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,392,1807,1868,1869],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}